Food Hypnosis Supermarkets, or rather their marketing departments, have long known how to covertly influence people. Sometimes based on the layout of the supermarket, or the way the food is chemically altered to become more addictive. But recently they have been experimenting with new technology that is far more dangerous. Natural Taste […]
Co-Evolving Hallucinations
Long Form Sales Letters The best form of copywriting, when it comes to long form sales letters is the story format. Especially if these stories contain relatable characters that you can identify with, so when you get to the end of this, you’ll go right along with the main character as they take action. […]
Separation Anxiety
Backpacking Trip I was backpacking with friend once and I had a particularly frightening experience. We’d been planning this trip, a five day loop in the sierras, for a few months. Part of it involved taking a shortcut that was suggested in the guide. Shortcuts Never Work Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov30Loop.mp4 We got halfway […]
Infinite Goal Pursuits
Approaching Infinity There are certain mathematical functions that are only interesting around infinity. Of course, since infinity is not really anything that we can think about, we have to think about this in abstract terms. So these mathematical functions can’t really be solved, like normal algebraic equations, where X is some specific number […]
Sewer Living Thrill Seekers
Crazy Hobbies I have this friend, and this guy is absolutely insane. I mean, not locked up in a lunatic asylum insane. He makes pretty good money, but this guy just likes to do insane things for fun. He likes to do dangerous things for fun. Geo-Caching https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept17Loop.mp4 His latest hobby […]
Alien Fermi DNA Strategy
Quick Cooker Recently I bought a pressure cooker. It’s pretty cool for two reasons, but it does have on major drawback. You can cook things quickly and it’s pretty much set and forget. I have a friend whose side business is growing marijuana. Pot Growing Genius https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept01Loop.mp4 But he has a […]
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 […]
Evolution Of Indestructible Roaches
Hand Cleanser If you use alcohol based hand cleansers, it’s possible you are purposely altering the natural evolution of potentially dangerous microbes. It works like this. When you put the hand sanitizer on, it kills almost all of the germs. 99.9%. Which ones doesn’t it kill? It kills all but the very strongest. […]
Time Travel Love
Time Loop Chaos There’s a lot of very interesting, very cleverly written time loop movies. Probably the first popular fictional time travel story was the Time Machine by HG Wells. Another popular time travel movie that showed the problems of time travel was a story written by Ray Bradbury where a bunch of guys […]
Life’s Viciousness
Clint Eastwood Samurai There’s a lot of similarities between the Clint Eastwood cowboy character and a lot of man-with-no-name samurai characters. In fact a lot of the Western movies with Clint Eastwood were remakes of Japanese period piece Japanese samurai movies. The idea that drives evolution is natural selection and you’ll find natural selection […]