Thought Provokers: 3/19/2025

Technological developments have gone from making life easier to making life harder (unless you pay for the latest technological development) in our lifetimes.

People without teeth can close their mouths further.

Due to time zone differences, some babies are born hours before others but have a later birthdate and are thus considered younger.

When the Berlin Wall fell, over fifteen acres of public art were destroyed virtually overnight.

If images reflect light, a video at 2x displays something at twice the speed of light.

Humanity has gone from foraging food in forests and trial and error with what’s edible to three-star Michelin cuisine.

People who pretend not to know English are making it harder for people who don’t know English.

It’s a good thing the Commissioner never had to summon Batman on a clear night.

If you don’t want to wake your partner up when you go to bed, you either have the best or the worst relationship.

Your brain is both the lock and locksmith for every forgotten password.

Being unaware of the expression “ignorance is bliss” doesn’t improve your life.

No one will ever truly be able to tell what the smell of snot is.

The first thing almost everyone does at the start of the day is sleep.

Given enough evolutionary time, humans who can synthesize vitamin D from the sun might eventually develop the ability to photosynthesize.

We never hear about anyone dying in a gruesome stairlift accident... perhaps we should replace all elevators with them.

If every person on Earth went bald for a few months, head lice would be extinct. However, humans don’t have that kind of coordination as a species, so the lice keep getting the better of us.

We have yet to see the first holiday classic about the true meaning of Black Friday.

There’s a bunch of wild animals we’ve never selectively bred. Science can probably make a faster cheetah.

Coffins should be biodegradable.

Teachers should collaborate with video game makers to make education more engaging.

Why don’t TVs have screen protectors? The panel is the only part that cannot be cheaply repaired.

House would make an epic Doctor Who.

There should be sport for throwing plastic supermarket baskets so that they land on the stack.