Mud Bowl I had a friend once, in junior high school, liked to play football, and was playing a game with some friends during the rain. He accidentally swallowed some mud, maybe thought he’d eaten some bugs or something, everybody, including him, thought it was pretty funny. Then a few weeks later he […]
Hive Mind Control
Mythology vs. Politics I read a psychological paper recently that intended to determine the directional cause effect relationship between mythology and organized political structures. The idea is to understand whether mythological stories came first, and from them arose a political structure, or whether the political structure came first and from them arose the mythological […]
The Fourth Level
Energy Discoveries There have been three major energy breakthroughs in the history of humanity. The first was fire, which allowed humans to hunt much more effectively. The second was agriculture, which allowed humans to repeatedly produce food energy much more safely, and on a much larger scale. There are plenty of conspiracy […]
Deadly Hidden Costs
Tiny House There are some miniature houses you can buy from Amazon. So long as you’ve got the land, you can order a house, they’ll ship it to you, and you can put it together in a couple of days. You do need to have some land to put it on, and a […]
Nested Campfire Games
College Party When I was in college my friends and I like to go car camping quite a bit, mainly to sit around the campfire and play games and tell stories. One game in particular was really enjoyable, but it required that only about half of the people knew the rules. You’d have […]
Social Status Death Trends
Health Boom I read an interesting study the other day that wanted to find any correlation between recent health food trends and the actual health benefits of the food trends. The assumption was that there would be at least some correlation between how popular any particular diet was, and how beneficial it was from […]
Jigsaw Story Puzzle
Relaxing Weekend I went to my local library a couple weeks ago, something I do to relax and kill time on the weekend. I picked up an interesting looking book, and sat in my favorite chair next to the window with a nice view of the park. But I started reading through book, […]
Wood Shop Genius
Wooden Man I have a neighbor who has turned his hobby into a pretty interesting income stream. He creates this really intricate wood carvings that he sells to people. He’s got a massive online reputation, and he’s got a long list of customers waiting for his products, that takes him dozens of hours […]
Game Room Of Horror
Winchester Mystery House One of the weirdest ghost stories that is sort of true is the Winchester House. The lady who married the guy who got rich by inventing the Winchester gun got worried that all the ghosts from people killed by that gun were going to come after her. She she figured […]
Deep Rooted Jesus Tree
Drinking Party My friend has this huge tree in his backyard he’s been wanting to chop down for a long time. I was supposed to go and help him, but when I showed up he’d changed his mind. He’d hired some pros to do the job, so we’d just hang out, get hammered […]
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