In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 54 – ‘Depression’/Bummedness and Depression June 30, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why do people feel depressed when times are abundant and good in spite of the crap ongoing? Rick Rosner: I am lucky and a little bit unlucky. I am not naturally …
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Ask A Genius 562 – Being Seen
In-Sight Publishing June 30, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You live in a place with a lot of famous people. What is it like living in a place like that? Rick Rosner: For a long time, I worked for a famous guy who kind of got famous as I worked for him. …
Ask A Genius 561 – Mosaics for the Wife; From Russia with Love
June 29, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You are really into mosaics. When we met years ago, you had a bunch. Rick Rosner: Micromosaics, Carole decided she likes micromosaics. These are very, very, sometimes incredibly, small mosaic is showing flowers, which are for poor tourists who can spend $10 or the 1920 …
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Ask A Genius 560 – Knowledge of Sexual Behaviours and Sex
In-Sight Publishing June 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Are things better in terms of people’s knowledge of sex and sexual behaviour compared to when you were growing up in the ‘70s? Rick Rosner: Yes, I think with MeToo and with knowledge in general. Things are generally better, but the whole culture …
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Ask A Genius 559 – Micromosaics and Surveillance
In-Sight Publishing June 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s your deal around micromosaics and surveillance? Rick Rosner: We’ve talked about it. My wife likes micromosaics, which are these very small mosaic pieces, mostly jewellery where the sliver of glass can be less than a millimetre in length and width. We’ve collected …
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The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 53 – Dangerous and Shitty Jobs
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 53 – Dangerous and Shitty Jobs June 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You’ve had dangerous and shitty jobs. What were those? Rick Rosner: I’ve been lucky because most of the jobs I enjoyed. My wife has been unlucky because she hasn’t had …
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Ask A Genius 558 – If Trump Loses
In-Sight Publishing June 23, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: If Trump loses the conservative media propping him up, there are always one or two people at Fox News who are ot afraid to praise him, but the primetime news lineup supports him. Although, Laura Ingraham has criticized him for being a wimp about …
The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 52 – Kidney Cancer 1A
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 52 – Kidney Cancer 1A June 23, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You had cancer. What type of cancer? Rick Rosner: 15-and-a-half months ago, I was thinking of my father-in-law who died of pancreatic cancer, which is s tough cancer because it causes …
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The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 51 – The Police and the News
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 51 – The Police and the News June 23, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is policing in America now? Rick Rosner: Right now, in America, there is a big push to fix policing. There are various names for it. Some are saying, …
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Born to Do Math 174 – Manifestations of Universe Construction Possibilities: Non-Catastrophic Inconsistencies and Rules
In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 174 – Manifestations of Universe Construction Possibilities: Non-Catastrophic Inconsistencies and Rules June 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, you read something about Wolfram and a computational view of things. What is it? Rick Rosner: Wolfram is like the Terrence Malick or the Quentin Tarantino of math. …
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