Monkeys are smart. In some countries they’re trained to be professional theives, and they’re fairly good at it. They know which items are most valuable, cell phones, wallets, and they hold them for ransom in exchange for food. Apes are even smarter. Chimps and gorillas can be taught sign language, and they can have fairly […]
Read more "Adam and Steve (Jobs)"If you’re in the market for an argument that’s pretty much positive to self destruct, then evolution is a sure fire win. There’s not really a middle ground on the subject. Either you think that there are different species on the planet because of a process that took a really long time or you don’t […]
Read more "Evolution Fought Christianity and Everybody Won (A story about the future)"The Mona Lisa has got to be one of the most cannibalized pieces of art in history. A pretty big part of its fame comes from the fact that it was stolen from the Louvre and it’s almost as if that original taking ignited a permanent social habit of ripping the image off. We put […]
Read more "The Mona Lisa Effect"If someone points a gun, menaces with a knife or raises their hand in violence, the place where that strike is going to land feels a certain way on the body. There’s no direct, mechanical connection between our body and theirs, not yet anyway, but still, a type of touching relationship has begun. It’s their […]
Read more "Karma Chameleon and the Color Changing Mad Man"Evolution sounds cool. It’s one measly letter away from Revolution, so anytime we mention it, there’s this barely hidden suggestion that we’ll be brilliantly storming some historic mountain and hoisting up a new banner of being to flap triumphantly in the wind. The dash of the scientific that evolution carries with it interbreeds with this […]
Read more "My Evolution is Better Than Your Evolution"If you only had an hour left to live and you were trapped in a room full of people in the same situation, what would you do? For many people, this is a no brainer. Sex. Whenever this question is passed around in any reasonably candid context, the answer: “I would hop on the bone […]
Read more "The Bone Train. Destination: Pound Town."I knew a woman who was raised a strict fundamentalist christain but later became an atheist. I asked her why converted away from christianity and she told me the following story: She went to a hardcore church. If you weren’t in it, you were going to hell. Her parents were Buddhist immigrants who’d sent her […]
Read more "Brace Yourself for the Awkward Truth"Growing up sucks. It’s an awkward, painful experience that takes forever and most of it is full of things we’d rather forget. Because of that, many people simply do forget those things, gradually increasing the time they spend remembering enjoyable moments and leaving less pleasant ones alone, until they’re insisting that it’s life, and not […]
Read more "Take Evolution Away From Stuck Up Geeks"When we think about where humanity comes from, we tend to think about some very big steps. Apes started walking, they started using tools, and when they did a new species of being, humanity, was on the planet for the first time. These big steps are made even larger by the time spans involved in […]
Read more "What Does Evolution Feel Like?"If we could take a picture of what people’s brains are like after they’ve been in prison for ten years and then simply use a machine to make that state of mind appear perfectly in people who’d just received a ten year sentence, using that picture as a substitute for real prison time would never […]
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Princess Fantastic 