Cooperating Species https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr17_Post.mp4 A fascinating subject in science is co-evolution. It’s when two completely unrelated species develop a kind of mutually beneficial, overlapping selfishness. The most common example is bees and flowers. Once upon a time (metaphorically) there were tons of different kinds of bees and tons of different kinds of flowers. […]
Bees Flowers Friends Lovers
Little Thinking Required https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar15_Post.mp4 Mother Nature is a genius. Many people love the idea of “auto pilot.” Spend any time online, looking for ways to make money, and you’ll find the phrase “auto pilot” all over the place. Nobody likes the idea of going door to door and selling a variety of […]
Open Dreaming Loops
Secret Writer Once there was an author. A secret author. He wrote many books. Under many names. Different from his own. If you do find his book. And start reading. This will begin. So Far So Good https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec15Loop.mp4 Like a regular fantasy book. Kings and queens. […]
Invisible Overlords
Accidental Science Rubber was accidentally invented at least twice. First by the Aztecs, who perhaps accidentally mixed two chemicals from two plants. According to the Aztecs, they mixed the blood of one plant with the semen of another plant. Animals Training Animals https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar13Loop.mp4 Humans aren’t the only animals to domesticate other animals. […]
Dystopian Drone Army
Rise Of The Drones Commercially available drones are pretty cool, and have some interesting applications. Primarily, they allow people to take some interesting vacation pictures, by using drones with pre-planned flight paths to circle around and take a quick ten second video. They also allow people to create interesting perspectives of sporting events, […]
Caviar Planet
Bell Curve Experiment I saw this cool experiment a couple days ago. Not really an experiment, more like a demonstration. A demonstration of a math teacher to his elementary school students. About probability and the Gaussian distribution. He had all the students stand in one line in the gym and face […]
Galileo’s Timepiece
Drugs and Brains For every drug you can take, that can give you an interesting mental experience, you have to have a corresponding receptor in your brain. Drugs, whether they be naturally occurring in nature, or highly synthesized and concentrated in a lab, can only work if they match with a pre-existing receptor site […]
Interdependent Co-Evolved Instincts
Cute Babies I read a recent article in a science magazine that suggested that the instinct to pick up and protect a cute baby is an evolutionarily beneficial instinct. If you can imagine two different tribes of people, one tribe that had the protect the cute baby instinct and another try that had the […]