Idle Theory
currently comprises:
| Orbital Siphon Model | A Java simulation model of a 250,000 km rigid pipe extending radially from the earth's equator, up which a continuous unpowered train of vehicles can rise. Totally impracticable at present, but could come in handy in 2500 AD. |
| Easy Meat | This set of essays argues that early men were subject to intense predation, and that human ornament, sacrifice, and burial practices originated in that time. |
| The Expanding Sabbath | This essay discusses something the economist Jeremy Rifkin said about unemployment and leisure. It suggests that the sabbath laws be re-instated, and the sabbath extended from one day to six days, in order to shorten the working week to one day, give everyone a one-day-a-week job, and create a leisure society. |
| 3 Versions of Human History | This essay considers 3 views of human history: that it's been getting worse, that it's been getting better, and that it's the same as it ever was. |
| Blind Spot | The human eye has a blind spot. The blind spot doesn't appear as a grey blob, but appears merged into the background. This means that human visual perception entails reprocessing the raw image data received from the retina of the eye. |
| The Idle Theory of Evolution | A series of essays illustrating the survival of the idlest. The Idle Theory of Evolution argues that the hardest-working creatures face extinction, while the idlest survive. Life tries to do as little as possible, not as much as possible. |