Fake Or Real There are a lot of very clever tests to determine if somebody has ESP or not. But there is one that indicates there might be some kind of extrasensory perception, but nobody’s really sure. It does require attempting to communicate telepathically with somebody you know. What Do You Really […]
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 […]
Cheese Empire Origins
Cheese Eater I have this friend who absolutely loves cheese. For the longest time, he would rave rant and tell anybody who would listen about this fantastic new cheese that he’d found. But then he was tangentially involved in this industrial accident, and even though he didn’t get hurt, he got a huge […]
Secret Society Origins
Cliques and Groups Lots of people are familiar with the idea of cliques. Smaller groups within larger groups. These are primarily based around the common human tendency to demonstrate hierarchical dominance by withholding information. Four Reasons https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May06Loop.mp4 There four ideas associated with secret societies going back to the dawn of time. […]
Peanut Butter Assassin
Fake Bible Fights There used to be this very famous atheist who liked to debate bible people. She and this same preacher would have public debates and draw huge crowds. But they actually had a secret deal, to be as combative on stage as possible, as that would draw large crowds and earn […]
Laundry Girl
Nice Tattoo
Crashing Into Dirt
The Wedge There’s a beach in Newport Beach called The Wedge. It’s a perfect example of wave interference patterns, how when waves cross orthogonally, the peaks combine, as do the troughs. This means the waves rise quick and high, but they also suck up all the water to do so, so when they […]
Telepathic Triangulation
Where Am I? Triangulation is a pretty cool thing to be able to do, both from the inside and the outside. From the inside, like if you were hiking somewhere and you didn’t have a GPS locator, you could triangulate your location. You’d need a map and a compass, but it’s pretty easy. […]
Emergent Financial Parasites
Black Jack System Before the advent and widespread use of facial recognition technology, a group of MIT students developed a very lucrative blackjack system. They made a movie about it, but the movie was necessarily altered to make room for good guys and bad guys and back stories and character arcs. But the […]
Circle Origin Story
Trigonometry is Magic One of the coolest discoveries in mathematics is that of trigonometry. Since cycles are a deep part of the natural world, and trigonometry deals in cycles, its discovery helped humans to understand a lot more than they did previously. It all started by wondering about the mathematical descriptions of the […]
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