Sucker Every Minute PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But the corollary to that idea is that we are suckers because we are willing to believe things that are too good to be true. And when it comes to modern snake oil scams that we keep falling for […]
Subliminal Conspiracy Industrial Complex
TV Smack Down I saw this interesting interview the other night. It started off cordial and polite, but it ended in a beat down by the host. The host kind of lured him into his trap, like TV talk show hosts like to do. The poor guy didn’t really prepare, and this […]
Acoustic Resonance Brainwashing
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. […]
CIA Remote Seduction
Lame Sci Fi Movie I saw what I thought was going to be an interesting movie the other night but I ended up not even finishing it. It had an interesting concept, but this turned out to be a gimmick. One that wasn’t enough to overcome the weak story and character development. […]
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 […]
Medieval Historian Disaster
Gut Bacteria Scientists have recently discovered an interesting link between gut bacteria diversity and health. People that are more sedentary, eat a lot of processed food and are overweight have much less diversity in their gut bacteria. People that are more active, live a healthy lifestyle and eat much less processed food have […]
Photographic Fear Elimination
Childhood Fear Creation Developing childhood fears is a pretty common experience. A common example is when a kid touches a hot stove. Before this fear is hard wired in to the poor kids brain, the stove is a this cool looking thing. It creates really cool smells. Happy Place https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept24Loop.mp4 All […]
CIA Street Magician
Micro Brew Pub There’s this new micro brew pub downtown I went to the other day. I don’t normally go to these kinds of places, but I’ve heard some pretty cool stories about this. So I wanted check this out. Spiritual Center https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept13Loop.mp4 There’s an interesting spiritual center I’ve been going to. […]
Scrambled Brain Tacos
Casserole Recipe I saw this really cool video about how to make a casserole. I decided to try it, but a couple of days after I saw it, so I had to go from memory. I know this guy who does these open mic nights. But he’s secretly a hypnotist who has […]
Long Game Mind Control
Plastic Boat There’s a lot of way to create work, from a scientific standpoint. Nearly all useful work is created by differences in temperature or electrical potential. But you can also generate work through differences in surface tension. You take these tiny, plastic boats, floating on water. They are built so […]