All Aboard https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug08_Post.mp4 Modern life is a trainwreck. Probably one of the biggest trainwrecks in planetary history. As the Roman Empire collapsed, the population decreased by 90%. That is a lot of death. All societies since the dawn of time collapsed. And they tend to collapse the same way. […]
Dangerous Magic
Middle Age Text There is a secret society. That publishes bibles. But very special bibles. These bibles. Are in their original form. Where they were carefully calibrated. After the fall of Rome. Before the creation. Of the Carolingian Empire. Between Empires https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan14_Loop.mp4 In a brief period […]
The Paradox Of Societal Collapse
Marketing Genius There is a cereal company that has come up with an ingenious marketing strategy. It is a cereal targeted at kids, so they need to have some kind of gimmick. A prize in the box, some kind of game or comic strip on the back. They were slowly losing market […]
Quantum Tube Consciousness
Pieces of Eight An octagon has eight sides. An octopus has eight legs. But October is the tenth month. Why the discrepancy? There have been a few interesting experiments done on how to grow seeds with much more efficiency. Energy In Energy Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct19Loop.mp4 Efficiency being a measure of energy […]
Rhyming Historical Destruction
Truth Is Impossible Studying history objectively is impossible. Everybody has filters and biases. It’s widely known that people who study history bring their unconscious biases with them. It’s kind of like how we choose to read from certain news sources that validate our confirmation bias. Few Venture Outside https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct16Loop.mp4 In order […]
Sevens Sixes and Brains
Pope Gregory Right now the entire world uses the same calendar. The one that counts up the years from year zero. This used to be called BC and AD, but they changed it to take out the reference to Jesus. Before BC meant before Christ, and AD meant Anno Domini, which is […]
How To Perform Miracles
Highly Skilled Therapist I see this really fantastic massage therapist. She does something that I haven’t found anybody else that can do this as well as she can do this. But she is also little bit more expensive than most, and she has a bit of weird ideas, but because of how much […]
Broke Samurais and Wealthy Romans
PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
Valentines Day Cons And Jesus
Gorgeous Japanese Woman I used to know this Japanese woman in her mid sixties. You could tell that when she was younger, she must have been absolutely, drop dead gorgeous. She told me once about her husband. When I met her, her husband had already died. But he would love hanging out in these […]
Gold Horsemen And Apocalypses
Wizard Of Oz One of the most interesting stories that is been around for a long time is the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is a good story for a lot of reasons. For one it follows the heroes journey to a T. There’s been a lot of comparisons between the Wizard of […]