Living Puzzle https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Mar31_Post.mp3 Life is a strange thing. Nobody knows for sure what it is. Sure, we can describe life compared to non-life. Life moves around, changes, consumes energy. One thing about life is it is an example of an “emergent system.” You can study oxygen until you’re blue in […]
Secret Success Weapon
Nobody Knows https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb23_Post.mp3 Weather systems are chaotic. Not in a metaphorical way. But in a purely defined mathematical way. Chaotic systems are systems with a few interdependent variables. In weather systems, you’ve got five or so variables. But every time one of those five variables changes, it affects all the […]
Bird Brain Chaos
Chaos Birds https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr29_Post.mp3 A murmuration of starlings is a pretty cool thing. This when a hundred or so birds start to fly around in circles. Not really circles, but in a kind of relatively small space. Compared to the sky. Where the birds are making all these cool shapes that keep […]
How To Conquer Chaos
No Direction https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Feb16_Post.mp4 A murmuration is a pretty cool thing to see. Technically, it’s a flock of starlings. But it can be any bird. These are those patterns where you have a hundred or more birds flying around in those patterns. They are not moving from point A to point B. […]
Street Sweeper Mayhem
Government Workers Once there was a bored street sweeper. He liked his job, it was steady, it paid well, it was almost impossible to get fired, and he got plenty of benefits. But nobody ever thanked him for cleaning the street. They only complained about him when they forgot to move their […]
Elite Sausage Chaos Theory
Gasoline Energy The amount of energy in one gallon of gas is huge. Compared to human labor, the amount of energy done by the heat energy in a gallon of gas is extraordinarily large. Meaning the amount of time it would take one human to do the work of one gallon of gas […]
How To Find Gold Nuggets Inside Your Problems
When I was in Junior High School, our gym teacher was always referring to the TV show “Get Smart.” If you aren’t familiar, this was a 60’s slapstick comedy about this guy who was a secret agent, working for the government agency called “Control,” and the archenemy of “Control” was an organization called “Kaos,” which […]