Spinach https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug14_Post.mp4 Way back in the day, Popeye cartoons were popular. When I was a kid, they had OLD Popeye cartoons on TV. Popeye of course, is the goofy guy who ate spinach, got really strong and beat the crap out of the bad guys. But he had a buddy named Wimpy. […]
The Happiness Generator Experiment
Economics Professor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar28_Post.mp4 Once there was an economics professor. And on the first day of the semester, he would always do the same experiment. He would hand out free T-shirts to all the students. But he made sure that not very many would fit. He would give smalls to big people, […]
Play The Most Ancient Game
Maslow’s Mistake https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar26_Post.mp4 What does it mean to be self-actualized? This is the top of Maslow’s hierarchy. Maslow’s hierarchy is something that is kind of misunderstood. It’s one of those things that’s kind of repeated so much it’s believed to be an iron clad law of human nature. In reality, the […]
Vampire Parasite Metaphors
Invisible Spies The NSA has developed a phone app that is mechanical. This is because many people are leaving their cell phones at home, so they can’t be tracked. But the new phones have microscopic drones that follow you everywhere. So even if you leave your phone at home, the NSA can […]
Bowling Ball Magic
Best Museum I went to this really amazing science museum once in Hong Kong. They had tons of floors, tons of rooms with tons of different science exhibits and interactive things in a bunch of different rooms. Like a gigantic mall, but every shop had something to do with science. There was […]
Hallucination Instinct
Viking Invasions During the early middle ages in Europe, life was very chaotic. One reason was that for about 300 years, the Vikings had a short term, lighting attack based, military superiority. They had these thin boats that didn’t need a lot of depth. They could sail up rivers, deep into Europe. […]
Multi Verse Nail Sex
Tattooed Love Girl I met this girl in a bar a couple of weeks ago. She had tons of tattoos and I wanted to ask her about them. But at the same time I recognized this is a common pickup line, to approach an attractive girl and ask her about her tattoos. […]
Trade Magic Economics
Shoe Trader I read this story about a guy. He got a pair of shoes for Christmas or something. He kept them in the box. Then like six months later, he traded them for a skateboard. But then he kept the skateboard. Didn’t use it. And traded it for something else. And he kept […]
Meta Levels of Consciousness
Blood Work One of the jobs that blood has as it moves through the body is to deliver oxygen to the cells of the muscles and pick up CO2 and take it to the lungs to exhale. Then when it drops off the CO2 with the lungs to exhale it picks up 02. Then […]
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 […]