Roman Persuasion There is a common technique in the art of rhetoric that goes back to the Roman Empire. You oscillate between an idea that is true, and an idea that sounds true. So long as the true sounding idea is sandwiched between two true ideas it will usually go undetected. One […]
Double Speed Brainwashing
Hungry and Thirsty Most people are familiar with subliminal messages that are used in advertising. The most famous is the study where they showed images during a movie theater. And they noticed and uptick in sales of coke and popcorn. Double Speed Lameness https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr14Loop.mp4 Apparently Netflix has been contemplating an option to […]
Math Horse
Subconscious Arithmetic Once there was a horse that could do basic arithmetic. He attracted a lot of attention from locals and media. Then the scientists came to study this. Hypnotic Words Unimportant https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr13Loop.mp4 An interesting double blind study was done on hypnotists, and hypnotic scripts. The gathered the best hypnotic scripts […]
Telepathic Mental Momentum
Up And Down Hills I used to do a lot of bike riding. Once I had this messed up bike. It was really hard to get going. Impulse Buy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr12Loop.mp4 I bought a forearm workout device. It was a ball inside a ball. You had to get the inside ball […]
Scarcity Pizza
Pizza Shop I used to have this job in college at a pizza shop. There was an old retired guy working, and he loved it when tons of customers would come in and we’d be slammed. There’s a theory that we subconsciously use smell to qualify potential romantic partners. Sniffing Out DNA […]
Energy Transfer Loss
Hot And Cold The Sterling engine is an interesting example of many clever ways to transform energy into different forms. It takes the differential in two chambers of two different temperatures and transforms that into kinetic energy. There’s an interesting inventor that used a similar technique with a bicycle. Not So Nice […]
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 […]
Peripheral Resonance
No Look Pass Way back in the day, Magic Johnson was famous for his no look pass. He would toss the ball seemingly behind him, but then one of his teammates would show up at just the right time. If you looked carefully whenever he did this, you could see his eyes get […]
Negative Junk Response
Hoarding Trails One of the more interesting reality shows is about hoarders. People that have so much stuff in their house, they only have space to get from their bed to the toilet, and from their bed to the front door. And if they aren’t too bad off, they’ll be a path to […]
Brain Detailing
Easy Money Due to the massive interconnected global economy, there are endless niche markets opening up. This means finding enough buyers to support a small business is easier than ever. For example, if your profit was $10 per product, you’d only need a couple dozen thousand new customers per year to make a […]
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