Gabriel’s Horn There is a paradox in calculus called the Horn of Gabriel. It’s a mathematical function, a three dimensional representation of the two dimensional equation y=1/x, but rotated around the x axis. The reason it is considered a paradox is this is a three dimensional shape with infinite surface area but finite […]
Rigged System Exploitation
Football Guy I used to work with this guy a long time ago that loved to bet on Football. Every Monday he’d tell us how he almost made a ton of money, but he ended up losing everything. Funny thing was he had this idea that every single game was rigged, that the […]
AI Time Travel
Robot Factories There have been a lot of advancements recently in robot assisted manufacturing. One article I read recently was about a completely automated pizza crust factory, that could make 1000 pizza crusts per minute or something. Robots are very efficient, and they have already started creeping into the our common experience. […]
Jigsaw Story Puzzle
Relaxing Weekend I went to my local library a couple weeks ago, something I do to relax and kill time on the weekend. I picked up an interesting looking book, and sat in my favorite chair next to the window with a nice view of the park. But I started reading through book, […]
Collective Dream Resonance
Dream Experiment There was an interesting dream experiment done a few years ago by an independent organization who somehow got a lot of funding. They had several people in a sleep room, and they essentially had to wait until they all went into REM sleep at the same time, which took several nights of […]
Artificial Physics
Lame Movie I saw this really terrible movie the other night. About a serial killer who had diplomatic immunity. So they knew who he was, but they couldn’t arrest him. Beware When Crossing State Lines https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan10Loop.mp4 Different states have different laws. If you travel from state to state, you might get […]
Slippery Slope Dream Archetypes
Cialdini Laws A very powerful Cialdini law of influence is one we create ourselves, and operates on ourselves, but outside of our conscious awareness. Researchers demonstrated this by going into a neighborhood they’d split into two halves. The first half they went through and asked everybody if they could but a huge, very […]
The Psychic In The Woods
Old Friend I ran into an old friend the other day that I hadn’t seen in a long time. She said she was halfway through her training at a psychic institute. She demonstrated some pretty powerful skill. She was able to read my thoughts in ways that I would never have believed […]
Energy Harvesting Strategies
Origins Of Imperialism Human imperialism has been around for a long time, in a lot of different forms, and under a lot of names. Imperialism, of course, is when large societies have become empires are specifically and strategically attempting conquest. But even smaller bands of raiders like the Vikings of the middle ages […]
The Spirit In The Basement
Party People I went to a networking event recently. It was at this bar restaurant type place and there were a surprising number of people there. I was walking through the park and I saw this guy fishing. Right when I walked up he turned and started to talk to me. […]