Look Inside My Brain I saw this TED talk a while ago about a lady who was a neurologist and then had a stroke. And she explained in full detail what it was like, how her brain slowly more or less went offline. And how even dialing the phone became something utterly confusing […]
Self Deluded Geniuses
Islands and Oceans One of my favorite science metaphor is about the relationship of what we know, to the stuff we don’t know. What we know is like the coastline of a small island. What we don’t know is the huge ocean. Which means the more we discover things that we know, […]
Surrounded by Unsolvable Solutions
3D Puzzles There are a lot of cool, 3D block puzzles. Kind of like jigsaw puzzles, but because they are 3D and not 2D it’s always pretty complicated how to put them together. When they are put together, they seem to be very simple. Until you take them apart, and they become […]
Black Magic Alchemy
Slave Card Makers
Watch The Cereal
Bowl After Bowl I have a friend who is a cereal aficionado He’s always trying out new types of cereal. Recently he bought a box and it seemed heavier than normal. He didn’t understand why until he got home. House Flipper https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May23Loop.mp4 Once this guy bought a house. He got […]
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 […]
Ghost Town Squatters
Strange Home I watched a very interesting documentary the other day about squatters. But these weren’t your average, run of the mill squatters who are probably living in your block. The kind that find empty houses that the banks are desperate to make look like somebody is living there to keep housing prices […]
Cheese Empire Origins
Cheese Eater I have this friend who absolutely loves cheese. For the longest time, he would rave rant and tell anybody who would listen about this fantastic new cheese that he’d found. But then he was tangentially involved in this industrial accident, and even though he didn’t get hurt, he got a huge […]
How They’ll Control Our Brains
Got Any Coagulant? Making tofu is not a naturally intuitive process. You need to soak the soybeans for a while to get soy milk. Then you’ve got to put some kind of coagulant in to make the soy milk curdle. Fourier Knows Best https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May19Loop.mp4 Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty is hard to wrap […]
Toothpick Industrial Complex
Nano Bot Toothpicks Recently, the toothpick companies have been secretively and experimentally increase their technology. It turns that on a subatomic surface level, the inter-enamel can create some surprisingly non linear results. This may explain why, despite routine flossing, brushing and tooth-picking, tooth decay doesn’t see to correlate to any particular variable in […]
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