Living Puzzle https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Mar31_Post.mp3 Life is a strange thing. Nobody knows for sure what it is. Sure, we can describe life compared to non-life. Life moves around, changes, consumes energy. One thing about life is it is an example of an “emergent system.” You can study oxygen until you’re blue in […]
Become King Of Earth
Everywhere https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan10_Post.mp4 One of the most important things to a fish is the thing they cannot see. They focus on food and predators and making more fish. They are surrounded by water. Water to fish is like the air to humans. It is so ever present it’s easy to take it […]
Crazy Lawsuit Man
He’s Got An Angle Once there was a man. A very, crazy man. Who was always looking for an angle. To get money. Without working. Usually from legal settlements. He often got small amounts. Which if course meant. He was always looking. For the next big […]
Advanced Gardening Techniques
Grow Now Pay Later Once there was a scientist. Who was interested on food. To create sustainable food. Easy to grow food. That would require minimum space. Minimum nutrients. Minimum water. But would provide. Maximum nutrition. Maximum taste. This of course. Need Another Dimension […]
Emergent Soul Theory
Unconscious Influence Cialdini has long studied the forces of influence that exist outside of our conscious awareness. The most common is social proof, but this one is a bit tricky, since everybody knows what social proof is, and every tends to try to leverage social proof in their favor. But all of us […]
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 […]
Parasite Carnivore Forest
Moths To A Flame When moths fly around a light, over and over and over, it’s kind of funny but it also doesn’t make sense. From an evolutionary standpoint, it doesn’t seem to be a very effective instinct to go straight toward the light. That trait would seem to have been eliminated from […]