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. […]
Plant The Seeds Of Love
What Do They Really Mean? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar21_Loop.mp4 There are a lot of useful metaphors that have been overused. Not necessarily overused, but used too often without really understanding them. Once I was at Griffith Park observatory in Los Angeles. A buddy of mine and I had just finished watching a Pink Floyd laser […]
White Dwarfs and Black Holes
Bored On The Boat There was this astrophysicists, born in India, and further educated in the United States. He got his undergraduate degree in India, and took a boat to Europe to start his graduate degree. On his way, on the boat, in between being an undergrad and a graduate student, he came […]
White Bear Triangles
Geometry Origin Story Euclid was an old school mathematician who came up with several geometric principles that still hold true today. Many of these are intuitive, and Euclid came up with these ideas simply by imagination. And many of these seem very true, without needing any proof. If you were to take […]
Curiosity Of Knowledge
Science Test There’s a very famous psychological test that was done shortly after World War II. They wanted to find out why an entire country had gone crazy and done such crazy things. They organized this test with three people. The Authority figure, The Teacher and The Learner. The Authority figure told the Teacher […]
Born With Knowledge
Child Prodigies The other night I watched an interesting TV show about child prodigies they had all these kids that were 5,6,4 that could do all these really interesting things. The most interesting kid was this boy who was four years old. He can name all of the presidents in order. If you gave […]
Moon Shot
Beat The Russians One of the best examples of setting and achieving a goal was the US moon program back during the 60s. This has everything that all of the goal books have as to what you need to create a goal, but there’s one more thing that was included in the US moon program […]
Authority Paradox
The Guy In Charge Said So One of the go-to ways for most of us silly humans to figure out what’s what is to see what somebody in charge says. Study after study shows this. They put ten people in a room, and dump in an unexpected and complicated task. Time after time, people will […]