Brain Power https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug21_Post.mp3 Chess players burn a lot of calories. It doesn’t look that way. They’re just sitting there, right? But gram for gram, our brain burns more calories than any other organ. Our brain is a very resource intensive organ. Chess players, if they don’t eat enough, lose a […]
Frequency Instincts
1/2 Sine Wave https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug19_Post.mp4 Imagine some kids playing jump rope. Imagine two of the kids are holding the one long jump rope. And other kids are jumping in and out. What does it take to jump in and out? You have to read the frequency, literally. Jump in, do a […]
Donut Hypnosis
Smarter Than Most There’s this really smart lady who has a very powerful job designing very advanced secretive scientific instruments for a very clandestine government contractor. But she absolutely loves donuts. So when her doctor told her she could no longer eat donuts at every meal, she knew she had to do something […]
Surrounded by Unsolvable Solutions
3D Puzzles There are a lot of cool, 3D block puzzles. Kind of like jigsaw puzzles, but because they are 3D and not 2D it’s always pretty complicated how to put them together. When they are put together, they seem to be very simple. Until you take them apart, and they become […]
Bernays Piano Strategy
Human Filters Human have a huge collection of biases which are generally considered to be bad. But in ancient times, our biases were very useful sorting tools, that helped us to conserve valuable brainpower in a dangerous environment. If you had to use your conscious mind to both look out for tigers and […]
MLM Universe
Survivorship Bias Survivorship bias is very dangerous, as it doesn’t happen inside our brains. The filtering, which is normally done inside our brain, is being done by the world, is the result of unpredictable chaos theory. But since it seems an easy task to study the winners, that’s what people do. Network […]
Mental Brain Illusions
What You See Isn’t Real There are a lot of cool optical illusions. They are, of course, based on mismatch between what you see, and what you think you are seeing. Our eyes and our visual cortex need to make a lot of assumptions about what we think we see, and up to […]
Nerf Brain Physics
Friendly Dive Bar I was out of town with a couple of friends. We were sitting in this dive bar, kind of small, but a pretty friendly atmosphere. All of a sudden this train went by, the entire bar started shaking, and the bartender started toss out these Nerf basketballs to everybody and […]
Insanity Resonance Chamber
Mass Hysteria A weird phenomenon that pop ups now and again is the idea of mass hysteria. It’s one thing if an individual has some kind of hallucination. And this hallucination is significantly different than reality. Eventually you’ll find out that this hallucination is false. Hallucination Resonance https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov09Loop.mp4 But when you […]
The Missing Gorilla Paradox
Perception Limits There’s a famous video that allegedly points out the discrepancies and inadequacies in human perception. The point is to show that even if you pay attention to something, you will miss most of what is going on here. You’ve no doubt seen this video, as this one is really popular. […]