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. […]
Truth Serum Hallucinations
Watch The Hemlock Socrates was famous for proving that everything anybody knew was false. He would create rapport, and then carefully ask targeted questions to get more and more information about the beliefs of his conversational partner. It wouldn’t take long for him to extract enough ideas from their brains that they could […]
Slow Motion Brain Wreck
Iced Tea Commercial I watched this really cool video recently About how they made an ice T commercial. First they showed the commercial. A close up of a tall glass with ice cubes one stream of ice T came in from one side, and a stream of milk came in from the […]
Ice Cream Interference Pattern
One Day… I was walking home the other day from the library, and I decided to stop by the supermarket and buy some ice cream. I was in the express lane between two ladies and in front of this guy who had Led Zeppelin T-shirt. The lady at the front had twelve items. […]
Invisible Demons and Killers
Germs Are Deadly Before they discovered what germs were and how they operate, before they understood that we live in a world with invisible entities that can kill us, a lot of extra people died in surgery. Particularly horrible was when 1 in 4 women died during childbirth. It wasn’t uncommon back in […]
How To Become Psychic
Rapport Seminar I went to a free sales seminar a couple weeks ago. It was pretty basic stuff, but it was also pretty useful. The first half all we did were these fairly straightforward rapport exercises. Rapport is extremely important, but it’s also kind of dangerous. Easy To Forget https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July30Loop.mp4 Dangerous […]
Deep Thought Disruption Device
Close But Out Of Reach I have an absolutely gorgeous neighbor. She broke up with her boyfriend about a month ago. She thought they might go all way. So she was particularly devastated when he broke it off. She wanted to give herself time to heal, so she decided to specifically […]
Trial and Error Spices
Cooking Class I took this really strange cooking class several years ago. I don’t remember how I signed up for it, only that I found about it in a way that was different than what you might expect to hear about a cooking class. It wasn’t from a flyer, I didn’t read about it […]
Trailing Memory Average
Palm Reader There’s this very powerful palm reader that works out of a very nondescript shop. In fact, unless you know she’s a palm reader you won’t tell, you won’t be able to tell by the outside of the shop. Even if you walk inside the shop it’s not altogether clear exactly what this woman […]
Brainless Society
Drug Ads on TV It’s a widely accepted fact that 70% of all television advertisements are paid for by the pharmaceutical companies but what’s unclear is why these ads are so uninteresting. If you watch ads from other consumer products like fast food or shoes or Doritos or Snickers, these ads will be very […]