Love Clouds Some of the most powerful insights are also the most uncomfortable. Adam Smith mentioned a few hundred years ago that everybody is driven by selfish behaviors. This can be bad, this can be good. Really, really good. His famous line is that the butcher, the baker, the brewer don’t […]
Eden Destruction
Once Upon A Time The invention of agriculture. Was a long slow process. One that was discovered. In the fertile crescent. Accidentally. In the beginning. There were many grains. Many animals. And few people. So for five thousand years. Nobody Knows https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Feb14_Loop.mp4 Before any records. […]
The Magic Garden
Chemical Plants Once there was a gardener. An amateur. But a very clever amateur. He was a retired chemist. And had spent the latter part of his career. Developing advanced chemicals. And pheromones. To grow advanced brands of wheat. One day. New Kind of Bread https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec18Loop.mp4 […]
Hypnotic Food Magic
Couple Of Chuckle Heads Once there were two friends. They were very competitive. They were always making silly bets. One week… They made a very strange bet… While under the influence… Of very powerful marijuana The bet was who could go the longest… While only eating picked […]
Cookie Dough Girls
Downtown Bread Man Once there was a bakery. It was downtown surrounded by office buildings. But even when the office buildings were closed. The baker was open. People would drive from miles away. And navigate the treacherous parking. Just to buy some delicious bread. Friendly Staff https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov08Loop.mp4 The […]
Imaginary Disasters
She’s Gonna Blow! There is a volcano in Yosemite that is supposed to erupt any time now. When it does, it might create such a dust cloud it will wipe out all life on Earth. Like the meteor that killed all the dinosaurs. Angry Bread Maker https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr22Loop.mp4 There was an angry baker […]
Circles Bread and Pi
Bread Making The other day I was making some bread but I forgot to put in the baking powder. You can use baking powder in bread that doesn’t require yeast. Since I didn’t have any yeast, but I had some baking powder, I figured it would work well enough. But I forgot […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]