Smarter Than Most There’s this really smart lady who has a very powerful job designing very advanced secretive scientific instruments for a very clandestine government contractor. But she absolutely loves donuts. So when her doctor told her she could no longer eat donuts at every meal, she knew she had to do something […]
Wrong Way Persuasion
Almost Become Rich I had a friend who scored a potentially lucrative job interview. Lucrative, of course, only if he managed to get the job. To be able to persuade the hiring manger to hire this person. Luckily, the job interview wasn’t for a couple of weeks. So he had plenty […]
Chasing The Devil
Bad Metaphors A nearly always incorrectly used metaphor in economics is something called, “pent up demand.” The way it’s used, is that longer somebody goes without buying things, the more things they’ll buy once they have the chance. But a more accurate way to describe this is delayed demand, rather than pent up […]
Planetary Murder Cult
No Lights There’s a pretty well known urban legend about head lights. As the legend goes, murderers will drive around at night with their lifts off. Whoever blinks at them to turn on their lights is their target. Scavenger hunts are pretty common and usually pretty enjoyable. Got Any Wooden Clothespins? […]
Paying For Empty Boxes
Secret Products There are plenty of alleged secret products exist. Tires that won’t wear out, or never ending batteries. The idea is that these are kept off the market to maximize profits/ Secret Food Combo https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr30Loop.mp4 A chef has discovered a very powerful food combination. If you combine various herbs in […]
Accidental Genius
Penny Stock Disaster I had this friend a long time ago who made a pretty funny mistake in the stock market. This was back during the dot com boom of the late nineties. He spent three hundred bucks on a penny stock, but he bough the wrong stock on accident. What The […]
Thought Juggling
Trick Photography There is a few interesting videos matching the frames per second to a propeller on a plane. This makes it look like the plane is flying without the propellers moving. There are plenty of videos like this, where people purposely manipulate the recording process to create some interesting effects. Metronome […]
Psychic Alien Invaders
How Will They Come Experts are still not in agreement about how, specifically, the impending alien invasion will take place. One of the biggest issue of contention is their assumed technological advancement. This, of course, is based on when they achieved self awareness, on a timeline compared to humans. Emergence https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr04Loop.mp4 A […]
Hallucinated Statistics
Monty Hall There is an interesting problem in statistics and probability known as the Monty Hall problem. You can choose one of three doors. Behind one door is a car, behind the other two are goats. You choose door number three, and then Monty Hall opens door number one, showing a goat, […]
Hidden Disruptive Technologies
Excess Brain Power All modern problems can be resolved to what evolutionary psychologists call an instinct mismatch. That our mind body system was calibrated for a world much different than the one in which we live. A corollary to this idea is that we have a significant amount of excess brain capacity. […]