Vampire Bats Vampire bats have a highly regulated collection of social instincts. One of them is the capability of doing each other favors, and remembering who has done favors for whom. They’ll go hunting, some will come back with blood, some won’t. The ones that don’t get any blood will borrow from […]
The Once And Future Hallucination
The Demon There was this philosopher guy a couple hundred years ago named Descartes. He came up with a problem that was unsolvable then, and unsolvable now. The problem was how do we know whether what is happening all around us is real, or just a hallucination? His idea was that our […]
Gossip, Rumors And Deadly Instincts
Find The Leaker There is a very common trope found in spy movies if you’re in charge of an organization and you suspect that somebody in your organization is leaking information there’s an easy way to find who the leak is. The first thing you do is you need to come up with several […]
Secrets Of Inventions
Natural Trade Anthropologists will tell us there’s four basic kinds of trade that take place between humans, both modern humans and ancient humans. The first type is trade a thing for a thing, meaning I give you something now and you give me something back of equal value. The second type is trade thing […]