Economics Professor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar28_Post.mp4 Once there was an economics professor. And on the first day of the semester, he would always do the same experiment. He would hand out free T-shirts to all the students. But he made sure that not very many would fit. He would give smalls to big people, […]
Ghost City Apocalypse
Unethical Science Once there was an experiment. A relocation experiment. The idea was carefully created. And privately funded. By various individuals. Tangentially connected. To various NGO’s. It was presented as humanitarian relief. To help find housing for the homeless. They were chosen at random. Taken […]
Government Fear Removal
VR Terror Once there was a group of scientists. Who wanted to develop. A system to remove all fear. They got a grant. From the government. To develop a system. To create utterly fearless soldiers. That allowed for an option. To later sell it commercially. For […]
Global Food Solution
Outside Box Thinking Once there was a scientist. Doing advanced genetic research. Who combined the DNA of various plants and animals. First a pig. And a chicken. And a cow. And some wheat. And a starfish. So from this different animals. He could make a sandwich. […]
Memory Confusion Experiment
Watch Closely Researchers did an interesting memory study. They had a guy pretending to be a thief come into a large classroom while a professor was lecturing and steal a bag off the desk in front. A common understanding is that winners of wars write the history books. We might assume that […]
The Dark Side Of Social Proof
Social Proof is one of those magical ninja skills you can covertly use to get anybody to do anything. It’s also an insidiously effective means of getting people to do some horrible things they’ll later regret. Of course, it helped us out in our cavemen days, as those that mindlessly followed the crowd were much […]