Nomads Vs. Empires https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr06_Post.mp4 Twice in history there were silk roads. At the time, they didn’t call them silk roads. This was a label given to that situation much, much later. Both situations were long trade routes. European empires on one side, and Chinese empires on the other. One or […]
Cereal For Breakfast
Something of Champions I have this weird friend that eats popcorn for breakfast every morning. I wondered why she did this, so finally I asked her, wondering if it might cause unexpected friction. She actually had a very rational, very legitimate answer. Where’d The Sun Go? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun10Loop.mp4 If you study solar eclipses, […]
Energy Storage Strategies
Getting Ready For Winter The idea of squirrels collecting nuts for the winter is a structure than you can find everywhere. Inmates tend to hoard food in their cell, as it feels good to have a secret stash of energy if you ever need this. Preppers also store months of food in case […]
Science, Magic and Brainwashing
Doctor Lecture I was watching an interesting lecture by this doctor a few weeks ago. He was talking about how, when he first was a doctor working in the ER, he remembered having more compassion for some patients and less compassion for other patients. This was because he assumed that some patients were […]
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. […]