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 […]
Circles Bread and Pi
Bread Making The other day I was making some bread but I forgot to put in the baking powder. You can use baking powder in bread that doesn’t require yeast. Since I didn’t have any yeast, but I had some baking powder, I figured it would work well enough. But I forgot […]
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 […]
Hypnotic Brain Seeding
Birthday Tree I went to a cool picnic recently. It was a 1000 year birthday party for this tree. They had a scientist verify the age with carbon dating. It was a huge event, lots of food booths, barbecues, tons of alcohol. It had a kind of spontaneous, pagan kind of […]
Applications of Hallucinated Infinity
Ancient Greeks One of my favorite characters from history is this guy from ancient Greece called Zeno of Elea. He came up with all these crazy paradoxes. One of them was the idea that motion is impossible. There was this Austrian guy named Godel who studied infinity. He came with all these […]
Cracks In The Foundation
Next Door Construction I have this next door neighbor that has decided, he and his wife have decided, to tear down and rebuild their entire house. He let everybody in the neighborhood know how long this would take and what to expect from the construction company. I was just curious why he decided to […]
How He Found His Purpose
Live Performance I’ve a friend who has been making music for several years, about 10 or 15 years, as long as I’ve known him. He’s only recently started to perform live and I wondered why before he never before live. The music he made was really really good, but he seemed to be content just […]
Fire Up Those Around You With Your Passion And Focus
Once I had this philosophy professor. I didn’t know what it was, but after class I always felt really “fired up.” The way the guy talked, they topics he spoke about, the examples he used were incredibly compelling. Nothing complicated, as this was a basic, intro philosophy 101 type class. And the guy certainly wasn’t […]
How To Unlock The Secret Of Human Behavior
One of the hardest things to predict is human behavior. Even people that you’ve known for a long, long time will sometimes do crazy and unexpected things. I once had this professor in college that was really, I’m not sure how to describe it, energizing. Meaning that after his classes, I would always feel pumped […]