Subliminal Advertising https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May09_Post.mp4 Once, I went to a bar with a couple of friends As soon as I walked in, I noticed that there were Corona flags all over the place. (The beer, not the virus…) One of my friends studied the menu carefully. I could see the determination and seriousness […]
Telepathic Bee Pollen
How Do They Communicate? Once there was a researcher. He studied bees and various other insects. Particularly how they communicate. One interesting observation was their dancing. A metaphor of how they behave after they search for food. Let’s Go Hunting https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct14Loop.mp4 At first, all the bees go out. Looking […]
Double Speed Brainwashing
Hungry and Thirsty Most people are familiar with subliminal messages that are used in advertising. The most famous is the study where they showed images during a movie theater. And they noticed and uptick in sales of coke and popcorn. Double Speed Lameness https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr14Loop.mp4 Apparently Netflix has been contemplating an option to […]
Hive Mind Control
Mythology vs. Politics I read a psychological paper recently that intended to determine the directional cause effect relationship between mythology and organized political structures. The idea is to understand whether mythological stories came first, and from them arose a political structure, or whether the political structure came first and from them arose the mythological […]
Evil Cat Lady
Japanese Genius I have this friend in Japan who, after a long and circuitous route, has finally managed to open his own shop. He did so after getting a PhD in electrical engineering, and then realizing what a huge mistake that might have been. But then he found a way out and now […]
Post Event Persuasion
Godfather of Influence One important and critical insight of Dr. Cialdini is that we often are influenced by things outside of our conscious awareness. But then our ego driven conscious brains need to come up with a post event, logical sounding reason why we did what we just did. This is never the […]
Purple Man Magic
Night TV Dangerous Watching TV at night, especially after work is the most dangerous thing you can do. Advertisers know that this is when your brain is the most open, when you are at home, relaxed, thinking you are safe. This is why the subliminal messages and advanced hypnotic technology that creates deep […]
Sub Acoustic Stripper Hypnosis
Crowd Control There is a very cool crowd disbursement technique that is illegal in the United States, but not in Britain. It’s based on the idea that as we get older, the upper threshold of the audible range of sound decreases. This means it’s possible to make some very loud, very painful high […]
Acoustic Resonance Brainwashing
Greek Plays I would have been cool to be alive back in ancient Greece when they had local plays put on at local amphitheaters. From today’s perspective, this doesn’t seem very special. This doesn’t seem very extraordinary. But today, we have access to tons of material to satisfy our story instinct. […]
Deep Deception and Sexual Influence
Curve Ball Killer An inside out curve ball is a very vicious and insidious pitch. Normal curve balls appear to be on their way to cross the plate, but then the curve away from the batter. Inside out curves appear to be slightly inside, but they curve toward the batter. These are […]