Intelligent Design? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr08_Post.mp4 Whoever made us humans put a lot of thought into it. God, aliens, biologically driven natural selection, whoever or whatever. They knew what we were doing. One thing that we have that no other living creatures has is language. Sure, plenty of other animals can transmit basic information […]
The Most Coveted Human Instinct
The More Things Change https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar10_Post.mp4 One of our best features as humans is something called a collective memory. Many animals can learn. One common things many “wild” animals learn is a simple equivalency. Humans = Free Food They see humans, and if they’ve learned this, the start to carefully move close. […]
Thought Juggling
Trick Photography There is a few interesting videos matching the frames per second to a propeller on a plane. This makes it look like the plane is flying without the propellers moving. There are plenty of videos like this, where people purposely manipulate the recording process to create some interesting effects. Metronome […]
Sliding Into Amnesia
Collective Memory One of the interesting things about any given society at any given time is the idea of collective memory. The bigger a society gets, the bigger its collective memory gets which will allow any technology to be subsequently added to over the generations. However, like any complex systems, there are many […]