Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur, and Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest - spanning three continents - to find real-life "NZT-48."
A good conversationalist has a robust portfolio of fascinating topics they can draw on to lead a mediocre chat into a memorable and fascinating discussion.
Transhumanism
Transhumanism is the technological, societal, ideological move to mental and physical human immortality. It’s coming a whole lot sooner than you think. Checkout the documentary film series Technocalyps or Google technological singularity
Obscure WWII Facts
The second world war is full of fascinating episodes that make for interesting conversation.
- Fanta (the fun, fruity soda) was actually invented specifically for the Nazis, look it up.
- The United States actually employed the notorious American-Italian gangster Lucky Luciano twice during the war. First to guard the docks of new york city from a Nazi submarine attack and then after he was deported to Sicily he paved the way for American forces to land.
- During the Pacific Campaign the US used Navajo American Indians as code talkers to prevent messages about tactical movements being intercepted. Their code was never broken during the war.
- Japanese holdouts were Japanese soldiers stationed on islands throughout the Pacific who refused to surrender, or did not know that Japan had surrendered. These soldiers remained isolated on these islands, often times by themselves, for several years, or decades. One famous case is Hiroo Onada, who finally surrendered in 1974, 29 years after Japan surrendered!
- Typically, people think of U-boats attacking ships in the Atlantic, around Greenland or closer to Europe, rather than off the coast of the United States. However, Operation Drumbeat involved 40 U-Boats attacking shipping very close to the coastline of various states. An even scarier fact is that German U-Boats even landed saboteurs on American soil! At Long Island, New York, and Ponte Vedra, Florida, 8 English-speaking Germans snuck into America (the 4 at Long Island were captured after several weeks).
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