Supermarket Battle I was talking to a friend of mine from Japan a couple days ago. Somehow we ended up talking about American food you can find in Japanese supermarkets vs. Japanese food you can find in American supermarkets. Since we’d both lived in both places, it was a compare contrast kind of […]
Editorial Magic
Invention of Writing Without question, one of the most profound inventions of human history was written language. Humans have been able to speak and think for at least 50,000 years, but written language has only been around for a few thousand. This means that for most of human history, our thoughts and words were […]
Necessity Of Competition
High School Blunder When I was in high school, about 100 years ago, I ran track and I ran cross-country. I got into the habit of jogging after school a couple days a week and one day I was out jogging and a friend of mine that I worked with saw me. He called […]
Altering Flows Of History
One Day In The Laundry Room… The other day I was sitting in my laundry room. I had just put my clothes into the dryer and I noticed a book lying face down on the table in front of me. I could tell by the back of the book that it was some type […]
Origins Of Long Game
End of The Stone Age There are two major discoveries in human history that essentially have informed human society ever since. The very first was the change that stopped the Stone Age and began the Bronze Age. Most historians believe this happened accidentally. If you think about how they get bronze, they find bronze […]
Ancient Magic Spells
Sent Letter A friend of mine sent me a letter a couple of weeks ago but it never came. He assured me that he sent it. He assured me that it was sent to the right address. He suggested that I go and check at the post office. I went to the post office […]
First Supernatural Kingdom
Where’d My Toastmasters Go? A couple of weeks ago I went to my local Toastmasters meeting to give a speech. I had been practicing this speech for a couple of days. I was excited to give this speech, but when I got there there was no Toastmasters group. My Toastmasters usually meets or they […]
Archaeologist’s Insight
House Party The other night I went to a party in my neighborhood. A guy just moved in and he bought this very big house. A very nice house up on the expensive section of the neighborhood and so he invited everybody. It turns out that he just got this job as a professor […]
Origins Of Modern Civilization
History of Metal I watched a very interesting video a couple days ago about the history of metal. Not heavy metal music but actual metal. The kind of stuff you get out of the ground, melt down and form into tools that you can use. It turns out that the discovery of metal and […]
Donut Shop Economics
College Job When I was in college the first job I got was that a donut shop. At first it seemed familiar because I had a job at a donut shop in high school except my job at the donut shop in high school was just showing up, working in the afternoon selling, donuts taking […]
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