List of Discarded Post Topics

2009-08-24

I have a large backlog of topics I want to blog about. Most of them were interesting at the time, but I have since lost enough interest to not want to write about it. If anyone is particularly interested in something, or want some clarification of what I would have written about, let me know.

Below are the topics and the notes I've collected for them.

• questions of the weeks
• why /should/ there be a separation of church and state?
• what is the difference between hurricanes, typhoons, maelstroms?
• does truth exist?
• why do humans have social needs?
• would a human-level AI replace the need for best friends?
- http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/caleb\_chung\_plays\_with\_pleo.html - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belongingness\#Evolutionary\_perspectives - Eliza and the Turing Test
• what should you do to maximize your chance of a relationship on a date?
- adrenaline mistaken for attraction (psychology: it works, bitches!)
• do animals burp?
• why do roosters crow at dawn?
• how do 3d glasses work?
• physics of getting yourself swinging
• musical imagery
- hurdles with audience - picket fence - cages - graph paper - DDR tracks - bookshelves - rick roll
• communism = democracy
- if totally transparent government
• IAT to measure cultural associations