Introvert – Extrovert A common description of introverts is they like to recharge when they are alone. That being around other people is very tiring. Extroverts, on the other hand, don’t like to be alone. They recharge by being around other people. Animals Need Energy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar06Loop.mp4 All animals need to extract […]
Emergent Chaos
Ice Volcano There are these cool structures called ice volcanoes. They form where it’s cold enough for the ice to from on beaches. Eventually the waves will come into the beach under the large sheet of ice. If the ice sheet is big enough, it will create enough pressure for the water […]
The Fourth Level
Energy Discoveries There have been three major energy breakthroughs in the history of humanity. The first was fire, which allowed humans to hunt much more effectively. The second was agriculture, which allowed humans to repeatedly produce food energy much more safely, and on a much larger scale. There are plenty of conspiracy […]
Deadly Hidden Costs
Tiny House There are some miniature houses you can buy from Amazon. So long as you’ve got the land, you can order a house, they’ll ship it to you, and you can put it together in a couple of days. You do need to have some land to put it on, and a […]
Separation Anxiety
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 […]