Dream Researcher Once there was a psychiatrist. Who specialized in incomprehensible dreams. Dreams that weren’t easily mapped. To TV shows or memories or anxieties. At first, he thought they were extra-terrestrial. Then he pursued a different theory. DNA Driven Dreams https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov03Loop.mp4 That they were a function of DNA. […]
Archetype Memory Palace
Head Shrinker Once there was a psychologist. She worked with students who wanted help studying. Her dream, since was a child, had been to create a new memory system. One that would work to make your brain much stronger. So you can more easily focus on the task at hand. […]
White Dwarfs and Black Holes
Bored On The Boat There was this astrophysicists, born in India, and further educated in the United States. He got his undergraduate degree in India, and took a boat to Europe to start his graduate degree. On his way, on the boat, in between being an undergrad and a graduate student, he came […]
Cake Baking Trifecta
Three Cakes There are three ways to bake a cake. From scratch, which takes a while, but gives you maximum flexibility. From a box of cake mix, which is much quicker, much cheaper but comes with the cost of not really knowing, for sure, what the ingredients are. Redefining Markets https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun03Loop.mp4 One […]
Cat Hypnosis
I Suck At Cooking I like to cook, even though I mostly suck at it. I’ll watch something on YouTube, or read somebody’s blog about some kind of recipe, and then I’ll decide to cook it a couple days later. Problem is I don’t usually remember much of this, except the taste I […]
Stranger Danger
Get Paid – Brainwashed An interesting social experiment was done. People showed up after seeing an add for a paid psychological study. They told them that over the next few weeks, strangers would purposely cause slight problems in their lives. Double Down https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr18Loop.mp4 There is a technique in gambling that seems legit, […]
Reverse Engineered Cult
Free Seminar The other day I went to a free seminar at a local community center. Since it was free, I didn’t expect much. Usually at these things, they have some basic ideas in the first half, and then the second half is some kind of upsell. Only at this one, there […]
Bias Decoupling Strategy
Fringe Mind Theory I saw this really interesting lecture the other day at a local junior college near by where my friends sister used to live. This guy has a couple PhD’s, and he’s written a few books, but he’s kind of a fringe scientist in the field of evolutionary neuro-psychology. His basic […]
Cannibal Evolutionary Cycles
Looping Sounds There’s an auditory illusion called a Shepard tone, that sounds like it is continuously rising. But at the same time, it always ends up back where it started. It’s very hypnotic to listen to this, because the more you listen to this, the more you want to understand what, exactly is […]
Nerf Brain Physics
Friendly Dive Bar I was out of town with a couple of friends. We were sitting in this dive bar, kind of small, but a pretty friendly atmosphere. All of a sudden this train went by, the entire bar started shaking, and the bartender started toss out these Nerf basketballs to everybody and […]