Keep This Secret Once there was a scientist. Who gave a lecture. About the history of life. The history of food. And the history of extinctions. Based on ancient evidence. And future predictions. Based on statistics. All life forms. Have a 100% chance. Of going […]
Getting Hammered Down
Where’d My Money Go? Stealth inflation is when you get less than you used to, but it’s carefully hidden in hopes that you won’t notice. Like candy bars that are the same price, but a little bit smaller than they were a year ago. Or items that are the same size and the […]
Tupperware Horror Show
Alien Life There’s a theory that the basic ingredients for life may have come from comets. Since there have been so many comets and other space objects hitting the Earth for billions of years, this is fairly likely. It’s also believed that once you have the right ingredients and conditions for life, the […]
Lion Debt and Extinction Events
Hunting Documentary I saw this interesting documentary about lions and how they hunt. Lions, like all other animals, have instincts that are calibrated for their environment. And like all other animals, they need to energy to survive, and they have to expend energy to survive. This is essentially the difference between any […]
Emergent Sentient Consciousness
Beat The Races If you look at the times of various horse races, like the Kentucky Derby, over the past hundred years, you’ll see a slow decrease. This is due to scientific advances in nutrition, sports medicine and strength and endurance training. But similar times of human races, like marathons, the 100 and […]
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 […]
Reversions To The Mean
Moving Averages Stock charts are a fascinating combination of technical and mathematical specificity and human psychology. One one hand they can be a very accurate representation of a company’s health. On the other hand, they are a pure expression of human psychology. One way to look at a chart is to compare the day […]
Malthus and Overpopulation
Nature Video I started watching this interesting set of science videos. It is a set of 24 videos, 30 minutes each, and they’re all about life sciences. The one I watched I can watch them out of order. The one I watched started off talking about populations and natural equilibrium. They were talking about […]
Voices In The Night
Meteor Shower When I was a kid in my friend wanted to stay up late one night to watch the meteor shower. We convinced our parents to let us sleep in our backyard. Of course our parents assured us that we would fall asleep before the meteor shower was expected to show which was at […]