Angry Genius I used to know this guy that was super, super brilliant. But he had absolutely horrible people skills. If anybody dared ask him a question about any of his genius ideas, he would take it the wrong way, get angry, and start screaming at people. So the best job he’s […]
Kung Fu Planet
Accelerated Learning The army has been experimenting with something they refer to as an Old Boy training system. Based on the Korean Horror movie about a guy who was kidnapped and locked in a hotel room for 20 years. He watched a kajillion kung fu movies. And after he got out, he […]
The Hacked Printer Misdirection
Need More Appliances I had this small kitchen, and I always wished I had about ten percent more space. Then I moved into a much larger house, with a much larger kitchen. At first it was pretty cool. But pretty soon, I was always wishing I had about ten percent more space. […]
Shotgun Man
Slow Following There is this very rich, and somewhat strange tech genius. After he made his millions in his twenties, he decided he needed a hobby. But not a regular hobby like fishing or playing dominoes. He decided to become a mime. But a mime that didn’t move. No Movement […]
Benjamin Heptagon
Underground Destruction There’s this very clever and wealthy real estate mogul who makes his money by shorting the real estate market. This is not an easy thing to do. You have to set up a system where you make money when real estate goes down. The reason he is so successful is […]
Fibonacci Chaos
Fibonacci Chaos Golden Ratio One of the coolest ideas in science is something called the Golden Ratio, or Phi. This is calculated from the Fibonacci sequence, and can be found in many places in nature. Like if you take ten people, and divide their height by the fingertip to fingertip length of their […]
Telepathic Bridge Champions
Good Idea At The Time A long time ago, shortly after world war II, the CIA was given a huge budget to investigate the probability if finding UFOs or any alien intelligence. They looked pretty carefully for about five years, but then a few strange things happened. Firstly, the administration of the CIA […]
Pancake Hero
Unexpected Taste I have this really goofy friend who loves to prank people. Lately he’s been putting in fake jars of peanut butter in their house. This only works, of course, is if you are already a fan of peanut butter. And you love to eat peanut butter. What he does […]
Self Guided Misdirection
Two Kinds of Magic There are two ways you can categorize stage magic. The kind that uses real props, and the kind that uses imaginary props. The kind that uses real props is regular magic. Pulling rabbits out of heads, card tricks, sawing ladies in half, this is generally accepted stage magic. […]
How To Walk Through Walls
No Particles Exist There’s an idea from quantum physics that particles don’t really exist. That particles are really a metaphorical description of tightly packed energetic vibrations. And that any resistance or friction between two objects, like trying to push your hand through a wall, is due to the sum total of the electrostatic […]
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