Numbers Are Huge https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July11_Post.mp4 Once I had this chemistry professor. First day of class he was trying to impress upon us the enormity of the numbers involved in chemistry. Most of us can’t fathom anything beyond a couple dozen. There’s all these infographics about how big different quantities of money are. […]
Brain Shenanigans
Bad Surgeon Once there was a brain surgeon. A very unethical brain surgeon. He had borrowed a lot of money. To become a brain surgeon. Unfortunately, for him. The people at the student loan company. Underestimated his loan payments. And overestimated his brain surgeon salary. Need More […]
Speak To Your Future
Walking Dude Once there was a man. Who liked to go on walks. Around the neighborhood. Around the park. One day. He found a DVD. Lying on the slide. In the park. Next to the jungle gym. What’s On This? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov16Loop.mp4 He took the DVD home. […]
Reunited Tragedy
Before Conscious Mind Once there were two friends. They’d been friends for a long time. Every since they could remember. Before kindergarten. Before they developed conscious awareness. They went everywhere together. They did their homework together. They went to the same college. They worked in the same […]
Cereal Box Hypnosis
Trifecta Of Doom There’s this very skilled assassin that combines hypnosis, telepathy, and ventriloquism. This allows him to assassinate targets in plain view of any agents who happen to be watching him. For example, if there is a witness that is under protection of the FBI for example, the assassin can kill in […]
Amnesia Delivery Service
Elusive Bad Guy There is this really strange burglar the FBI has been looking for for some time. He has a very unique MO, and he never actually steals anything. The only thing they can arrest him for is credit card fraud, and breaking and entering. He chooses his victims very, very […]
Blender Hallucinations
Home Depot Disaster I had a friend once in this class I took a couple of years ago at a community college. He told me a story about how he’d just seen the movie, “Jackass,” and was feeling inspired. So, he and a friend went into Home Depot and he took a dump […]
Stranger Danger
Get Paid – Brainwashed An interesting social experiment was done. People showed up after seeing an add for a paid psychological study. They told them that over the next few weeks, strangers would purposely cause slight problems in their lives. Double Down https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr18Loop.mp4 There is a technique in gambling that seems legit, […]
Bernays Piano Strategy
Human Filters Human have a huge collection of biases which are generally considered to be bad. But in ancient times, our biases were very useful sorting tools, that helped us to conserve valuable brainpower in a dangerous environment. If you had to use your conscious mind to both look out for tigers and […]
Juggling Stories and Hot Dogs
Old Friends I have a couple of friends in their late seventies. One of the things they do is take these bus trips. It’s mostly retired people, and they take day trips to these places. I know an old guy in Japan who does the same thing, with his wife. There […]