Two Persuasion Models There are two basic ways to persuade somebody. Inside out, or outside in. Most of us use the outside in approach. We’ve got a fantastic idea in our brain. And since that idea lives in our brains, we LOVE it. And since WE love it, we assume […]
Thought To Word Evolution
Way Back When Once upon a time. There were no words. No language. Only gestures. And grunts. The biggest question. For anthropological linguists. Did words lead to advanced thinking. Or did advanced thinking lead to speaking. Only Recent Exists https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan03_Loop.mp4 Written languages. Weren’t created until […]
Past Participle Disaster
You’ll Never Guess The Winner There is this small town in the Midwest that has a yearly pickling contest. It’s somewhat similar to the yearly garlic festival they have in Gilroy. Where you can famously buy all kinds of otherwise normal carnival food, but it’s made with garlic. Garlic chewing gum, garlic […]
Invisible Overlords
Accidental Science Rubber was accidentally invented at least twice. First by the Aztecs, who perhaps accidentally mixed two chemicals from two plants. According to the Aztecs, they mixed the blood of one plant with the semen of another plant. Animals Training Animals https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar13Loop.mp4 Humans aren’t the only animals to domesticate other animals. […]
Alchemist Cult of Metallurgy
Novel Writing Secrets If you were to decide to write a novel, so you become famous, or maybe if you only wanted to become rich, you’d have unlimited options. But your unlimited options would necessarily be constrained within common story structure. There’s basically seven story types, 14 archetypes for the good guy, 14 […]
Magic Mind Control
Party Tricks A friend called me the other day. She said she needed some props for a party she was having. I asked her what kind of party she was having. She said it was a birthday party. For her son, who is in second grade. No Props Up Here […]
CIA Street Magician
Micro Brew Pub There’s this new micro brew pub downtown I went to the other day. I don’t normally go to these kinds of places, but I’ve heard some pretty cool stories about this. So I wanted check this out. Spiritual Center https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept13Loop.mp4 There’s an interesting spiritual center I’ve been going to. […]
Emergent Alien Consciousness
Self Awareness One of the most perplexing scientific ideas is self awareness. Of being aware of our own thoughts we think them. Of being aware of our own words as we speak them. Of being aware of the never ending loop between brain and speech and thought and ideas and memories and […]
Origins Of The Gods
Learning Center I went to an interesting lecture a couple of nights ago at a local learning center. The topic was the history of written language. It was only an hour, but the guy who taught went through a really quick bullet point overview, which was fascinating. Reading and writing are things we […]
Supply and Demand
Secrets Of The Global Brain These two words, supply and demand, seem very simple. They are known and supposedly understood by virtually anybody. They are ubiquitous, and if you know the words, but are a bit sketchy on the concepts, then you will fully understand them by the end of this post. Despite their simplicity, […]
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