Backpacking Trip I was backpacking with friend once and I had a particularly frightening experience. We’d been planning this trip, a five day loop in the sierras, for a few months. Part of it involved taking a shortcut that was suggested in the guide. Shortcuts Never Work Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov30Loop.mp4 We got halfway […]
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 […]
Trigger Happy Alien Spirits
Secret Assassin There’s a pretty common idea that is in a lot of movies about government trained assassins. That you are a trained assassin, but you don’t remember this. That if somebody called you and said your trigger word, you would suddenly remember all your assassin training and go kill the targets. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Parasite Demons In Your Brain
Poor Mouse There’s a messed up parasite called Toxoplasma Gondii. When I mouse eats this, it switches his fear polarity. Normally when a mouse senses a cat he runs away as fast as he can. But once a mouse ingests the Toxoplasma Gondii parasite, it makes them believe the cat is his […]
Twin Flame Hallucination Technique
Jigsaw Man I have a friend who has a lot of old school hobbies. He’s actually got no tech allowed game room. He’s in his sixties, and he’s fairly tech savvy, but he needs to escape to this special non tech room in his house. He’s got a huge bookcase filled with […]
Homeopathic DNA Activation
Health Food Shop There’s this little health food shop in a strip mall I go by sometimes. Most of this type of stuff I buy online, but every once in a while I’ve got questions, but they’re the kinds of questions you can’t really find online. When want to talk to an expert. Even […]
Psychic Chicken Lady
Whole Foods I went into whole foods a few days ago. I don’t normally shop there. It’s kind of far and expensive. I was just curious and I was in the neighborhood. I was looking at all the chicken and I noticed they had different prices per pound. But I couldn’t see a clear […]
Open Manhole Cover
Tricky Applicant There is this guy a few years ago who wanted to get a job at a very sought after tech company, one of the big tech companies. But he didn’t want to go through the same motions that everyone else did because he would be put in the same pool of applicants as […]