Middle Age Text There is a secret society. That publishes bibles. But very special bibles. These bibles. Are in their original form. Where they were carefully calibrated. After the fall of Rome. Before the creation. Of the Carolingian Empire. Between Empires https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan14_Loop.mp4 In a brief period […]
Time Travel Jewels
Spinning Man Once there was a miller. Who lived in the middle ages. And lived next to a river. That spun around his water wheel. He used the water wheel. To turn his mill. And grind wheat. Into flour. One day. He was out looking. […]
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 […]
Flooding The Nile
Flooded Farmers In ancient Egypt, the Nile would flood once a year. This was actually a very good thing, as the Nile brought in needed silt that would enrich the crops. Other places didn’t have such luck, as their soil would tend to get more and more depleted over time. Stacked Up […]
Curving History
Practice Makes Better To get better at shooting free throws, you need to practice throwing free throws. This means you are slowly building up a ton of success data, connecting the behavior that created the success to the good feeling. You are also building up tons of failure data, to connect negative feelings […]
Growing Humans For Satan
Easy Money There are plenty of ways to make a ton of money, but you won’t find any of them if you expect somebody to tell you. If you are willing to do your own research and think outside the box, and keep your results to yourself, you can find tons of easy ways […]
Rhyming Historical Destruction
Truth Is Impossible Studying history objectively is impossible. Everybody has filters and biases. It’s widely known that people who study history bring their unconscious biases with them. It’s kind of like how we choose to read from certain news sources that validate our confirmation bias. Few Venture Outside https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct16Loop.mp4 In order […]
Thought Cancellation Pattern
Middle Age Genius One of the more interesting ideas that happened between the early and high middle ages was the idea of scholasticism. Before, they only had monasticism. Which meant focusing only on one set of ideas. Back then, these were ideas about God and society and the teachings of the Catholic […]
Malthusian Death Traps
Black Death Back during the black death, nobody knew why everybody was dying. Of course, today we know it’s because of the fleas that were on the rats. But back then, it was way before they could understand science. Way before we humans learned how to use science to increase health and […]
Cannibal Buffet
Bad Business Plan There was this new buffet the opened up a few weeks ago. I’m generally not a big fan of buffets, but this particular restaurant had spent a lot of money on marketing. I kept getting a lot of fliers, and the prices were really low. So low I wanted […]