Because meaning is pain and loss, award shows get confused and assume that the painful is meaningful. Tragedy wins awards as do entries that play on the narcissism of those giving the awards. The Room will win being both about the process of imagination and very very painful.

Food doesn't evolve as fast as any other technology. This is because our deep brain structures strangle any creativity when we think about food. Instead, a panic response is triggered and we just think of our safety foods. This is how to get around that

The Meaning of Life involves pain and loss. This is implicit in language, religion and bets as we've seen. This podcast extends this into epistemology. The philosophy of science of Karl Popper and arguments against Nihilism/Skepticism all come to the same conclusions about meaning and loss.

Most mp3 players have a media bar showing where you are in the song. By hitting different spots on the bar, you go and play different parts of the music. If the music is incredibly boring, it sounds better hopping around in it than playing it conventionally. I call this ersatz musical instrument, "the Crapaphone" since, one uses crappy music as the source. It can be recorded while playing and replayed (or not!)

Missing data, messed up data, unforeseen circumstances will randomly happen. The consequences of it, however, are never random. The burden of entropy is put upon the weak by the strong. Default values for missing information have huge consequences. In police shootings, the victim should be presumed INNOCENT. Furthermore the assumption that every interaction is of dire risk leads to bad consequences in police encounters and in the ER. We should take stock of the assumptions

You get to pick and choose your birthday and how happy it is. At least a little bit

Automatic brain functioning systems are triggered to keep us safe and make babies. Maybe civilization should put some brakes on the unrestrained pursuit of both. At least get it under conscious control or not have tha unconscious run everthing into the ground?

Seriously, validate this yourself (perhaps using yourself as the example!) A not-very-bright person when asked how to get to somewhere will paradoxically give more information (often involving events involving inbred relatives) than a more intelligent person (who will often just demand you use a computer yourself!) This demonstrates that the deepest parts of the brain involved in memory are those relating story, location, and memory.

The media Just Does Not Want to Accept Donald Trump as a viable candidate. Truth is, for a fragmented GOP, he's the only candidate

Suffering is put into a larger context in Judaism. This is preliminary for the theory of humor later in the week.