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 […]
Curiosity Of Knowledge
Science Test There’s a very famous psychological test that was done shortly after World War II. They wanted to find out why an entire country had gone crazy and done such crazy things. They organized this test with three people. The Authority figure, The Teacher and The Learner. The Authority figure told the Teacher […]
Flow States and New Instincts
Getting Beat A long time ago I used to play a lot of racquetball. One day I was playing against a friend of mine against whom I usually won. We usually played best-of-seven, first person to win four games. He was winning three games to zero and he was about halfway through the fourth […]
Origins Of Long Game
End of The Stone Age There are two major discoveries in human history that essentially have informed human society ever since. The very first was the change that stopped the Stone Age and began the Bronze Age. Most historians believe this happened accidentally. If you think about how they get bronze, they find bronze […]
Alone With Your Thoughts
Communication Seminar I went to this really strange communication seminar a long time ago. It was all about non-verbal communication. The theory of the guy that was teaching it was that most of our communication is nonverbal very little of it is based on the words. We had to do a lot of exercises […]
Brainless Human Syndrome
Why Most Of Us Can’t Think Once upon a time a very timid fellow decides to take an ocean cruise. He was very worried, as he’d never been out on the ocean. After the first couple days, he felt brave enough to venture out on the deck. But as luck would have it, as soon […]
Hallucination
The Human Unique Selling Proposition What is our best feature, as humans? Many people like to talk about this, since we are pretty different from all the other animals. Some don’t even like to accept that we are animals, imagining that we are some special beings above the rest. Chimp DNA But there seems […]
Cause and Effect
The Mystery Of The Human Mind One of the most confusing things, (or maybe not so confusing since we think we understand it and we really don’t) is the idea of cause and effect. On one hand, it seems simple. We see it happening all the time. It’s the one aspect of science we can […]
Kill Approach Anxiety With Right Thinking
Some will say that when you’ve got approach anxiety, the only way is to grab your balls and muscle through the fear. However, there’s a much easier way. The way the brain works is that if we don’t consciously control our thoughts, we’ll tend to drift toward negative thinking. This has kept us alive for […]