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 […]
Termite Cavities
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 […]
Hypnotic Sex Triggers
Bending Light One interesting aspect of Einstein’s theory of relativity is something called a gravitational lens If a celestial object, or several celestial objects are large enough, their gravity will bend light. So it looks like the light is curving around the celestial object. Real Estate Commissions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May15Loop.mp4 There was this real […]
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 […]
Social Proof Gone Mad
Unfounded Experiments Soon after the end of WWII, the CIA started doing social proof experiments. This was after they were first created, and had a huge budget and were simply doing as many experiments as they could. They started to artificially change fashion trends, speaking trends and buying trends, just to see how […]
Self Sustaining Hallucinations
Thinking Is Hard There are plenty of logical fallacies that humans tend to use without even realizing it. There are also plenty of biases built into our brain. Just like it’s hard to run around with a bag of rocks for very long, it’s hard to think in purely logical terms for very […]
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 […]
Once Only Clothing
Cheap Traveler A friend of mine went on a trip to Thailand, and wanted to travel as cheaply as possible. He was going to backpack around, stay in hostels, etc. But he found an interesting way to save money, one he never would have predicted before the trip. Sleazy Profits https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May10Loop.mp4 Recently […]
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? […]
Blender Hallucinations
Home Depot Disaster I had a friend once in this class I took a couple of years ago at a community college. He told me a story about how he’d just seen the movie, “Jackass,” and was feeling inspired. So, he and a friend went into Home Depot and he took a dump […]
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