Collective Memory One of the interesting things about any given society at any given time is the idea of collective memory. The bigger a society gets, the bigger its collective memory gets which will allow any technology to be subsequently added to over the generations. However, like any complex systems, there are many […]
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 […]
Lucid Dreaming Archetypes
Ancient Mythology There is a key difference between mythology between how it evolved, and how it is studied. When we study or even enjoy mythology, we do so from a frame of mind of knowing it isn’t true. Of knowing this happened a long time ago, without really needing to know the environment […]
Post Rational Crash
Bike Riding A long time ago I used to do a lot of cycling, about a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles a week. I’d go riding after work, and I’d go on long rides on the weekend. At one point, I changed my pedals to this clips that are attached to the […]
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 […]
Rhyming Historical Destruction
Truth Is Impossible Studying history objectively is impossible. Everybody has filters and biases. It’s widely known that people who study history bring their unconscious biases with them. It’s kind of like how we choose to read from certain news sources that validate our confirmation bias. Few Venture Outside https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct16Loop.mp4 In order […]
The Hallucinated Dinner Party
Library Expansion I’ve noticed a new thing they are having down at my local library. They’ve been putting up notices for these day trips. They are put on by the city, and I don’t think they library itself is involved in organizing these trips. I think the library is just a convenient […]
Air Fryers And Slavery
Frying The Air I’ve been seeing a lot of air fryers being advertised lately. I didn’t know what an air fryer was, exactly, so I did some research. One question that you need to ask answer, but is also potentially very dangerous is the meaning of life. Meaning Of Life Dangers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug09Loop.mp4 […]
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 […]
Hierarchical Brain Structures
Big History If you study big history, you’ll see plenty of similarities between all major civilizations. Doesn’t matter where or when they are, they all share many similarities. For example, you’ll find pyramids in plenty of cultures. Egyptian, Meso-American and ancient Greece. Another common trait is how they modified the environment to […]