Slow People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug13_Post.mp4 The transition from hunting to farming was very, very slow. At least 5,000 years. The last ice age ended about 11,000 years ago. The very first pre-Sumerian cities didn’t pop up until about 5,000 BC or so. What took them so long? The lifestyle of a hunter-gather […]
Leave Corrupted Thinking Behind
Production vs. Consumption https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July25_Post.mp4 I’ve always been interested in history. I’ve one thing from history is that all societies end up collapsing. Every since we invented, or discovered, agriculture, we’ve had a kind of shelf life. Which kind of makes sense, but from a really big picture kind of way. A […]
Stuck In A Time Loop?
Human Origin Story https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun15_Post.mp4 One of the most important things that ever happened in human history was the “discovery” or “invention” of agriculture. Before that, humans had to hunt. But then there was an ice age, and people had to worry about encroaching glaciers. Just like in the movie where that squirrel […]
How They’ll Control Our Brains
Got Any Coagulant? Making tofu is not a naturally intuitive process. You need to soak the soybeans for a while to get soy milk. Then you’ve got to put some kind of coagulant in to make the soy milk curdle. Fourier Knows Best https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May19Loop.mp4 Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty is hard to wrap […]
The History of Corn
Supermarket Battle I was talking to a friend of mine from Japan a couple days ago. Somehow we ended up talking about American food you can find in Japanese supermarkets vs. Japanese food you can find in American supermarkets. Since we’d both lived in both places, it was a compare contrast kind of […]
Unconsciously Competent Skills
Martial Arts If you were to study martial arts it would be taking something at the level of unconscious competence, raising it to the level of conscious competence and then rebuilding it at the level of conscious competence and then dropping it back down into the level of unconscious competence. The first level of […]
Unlocking Hidden Energy
Troy A Myth? For the longest time historians believe it that the Trojan war story in the city of Troy was completely a myth. Nobody really believed that the ancient city of Troy was a real place until very recently when they started to find some archaeological evidence that Troy was indeed an actual city. […]
The Magic Of The Earth
Boring Movie The other night I was watching this interesting movie on TV. It started out interesting but then it started to get kind of boring. A lot of the conversations that characters were having were outside in this very beautiful garden. Because the movie was boring, I stopped paying attention to what they […]
The Good Witch
That Tasted Good A couple of weeks ago I went to this pot luck party and I ate something that was particularly delicious. I didn’t actually find the person who made it and ask them for the recipe because I overheard them explaining the recipe to somebody else. At the time I thought I would […]
Retreat To The Power Within
Dive Bar There’s this bar nearby my house. A dive bar, kind of a community dive bar. I go there because not because I drink but because it’s a very relaxing place to hang out and talk about things that only are allowed to be talked about inside of your local community dive bar. […]