Neurology Lecture I saw this very troubling lecture a few days ago. It was at this local book store, I just happened to be there. A neurologist had written a book and was talking about the dangers of relying on too much technology. He said that when we rely on too much […]
Colonization Plans
What You See Isn’t Real There are a lot of cool optical illusions floating around. They are, of course, built by understanding the inefficiency of our visual perception. Most of what we see is an approximation, and by purposely creating false approximations, we will see things that aren’t really there. The field […]
Fourier Hallucination Magic
Digital Audio Workstations If you are at all familiar with music production, then you know what a DAW is. A digital audio workstation. A way to create pretty much any kind of music you want. There are two kinds of virtual instruments that go inside of a DAW. Sampled instruments, which […]
Energy Harvesting Strategies
Origins Of Imperialism Human imperialism has been around for a long time, in a lot of different forms, and under a lot of names. Imperialism, of course, is when large societies have become empires are specifically and strategically attempting conquest. But even smaller bands of raiders like the Vikings of the middle ages […]
Trigger Happy Alien Spirits
Secret Assassin There’s a pretty common idea that is in a lot of movies about government trained assassins. That you are a trained assassin, but you don’t remember this. That if somebody called you and said your trigger word, you would suddenly remember all your assassin training and go kill the targets. […]
Evolutionarily Assisted Planet Rotation
Before Fire Archaeologists can tell the time when proto humans invented fire. Before they invented fire, they find gnawed up human bones in caves along side fully intact skeletons of large predators. Before fire, predators would kill proto humans, drag them into caves, and slowly eat them. Before Farming https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug29Loop.mp4 After humans […]
Evil Alien Democracy
Debt Is Life I read an article by this economist named Richard Duncan. He said that ever since world war two, every time the debt has not expanded more than 2%, the U.S. economy has gone into a recession. This means out economy is not only dependent on debt, but it’s dependent on […]
Emergent Alien Consciousness
Self Awareness One of the most perplexing scientific ideas is self awareness. Of being aware of our own thoughts we think them. Of being aware of our own words as we speak them. Of being aware of the never ending loop between brain and speech and thought and ideas and memories and […]
Archaeologist’s Insight
House Party The other night I went to a party in my neighborhood. A guy just moved in and he bought this very big house. A very nice house up on the expensive section of the neighborhood and so he invited everybody. It turns out that he just got this job as a professor […]
Ancient Universal DNA
House Party I have a friend who is an exceptionally talented musician except he only plays music as a hobby. He’s actually an engineer for this really really big huge company that he joined shortly after it was founded. He kind of rose up the ranks as the company grew now he makes a ton […]