[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Well, you want to talk about the world getting dumber and I want to kind of start that off with sort of late stage IQ. You've made this point originally I think. The idea that IQ as a cultural item has decreased over time in terms of psychology and stuff …
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Ask A Genius 801: Racial Stereotypes and More
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This one is about racial stereotypes based on a little bit older conversation. Rick Rosner: All right. So, yeah one of the previous times we talked recently, we were talking about how racial stereotypes, particularly stereotypes applied to black people. All kind of fit under the same umbrella that white …
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Ask A Genius 800: The American Dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we were talking a little bit off tape and something that came up was me asking do you think the American dollar will disappear as the world's Reserve currency. What are your thoughts on that? Rick Rosner: I said yeah but I don't know how long it'll take. America's …
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Ask A Genius 799: Addendum to 798
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Addendum to previous session. Please go ahead. Rick Rosner: All right, I can talk about my own penis and balls. I have fairly large balls because I have varicose veins and my balls in addition to having my testicles also contain a lot of extra vein material and so they've …
Ask A Genius 798: Iceland’s Penises
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You wanted to talk about penises. I have one preface to the penis discussion. When I was in Iceland for the Young Humanist International General Assembly, I was running and I got elected, when I was there people talked about the Whale Museum in Iceland. People talked about Volcanic vent …
Ask A Genius 797: Crazy Stuff and LA City Council
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So there's some political stuff in LA about a council member. I'll let you expound on this one because it's so crazy it had to have happened in America. Rick Rosner: Yeah, okay. So the LA City Council, city government has just been riddled with just mouth fees and some …
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Ask A Genius 796: Time Travel is Impossible
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We don't need any preface for this one I think. So you actually, in old issues of Noesis, when you did some writing and others didn't spring there was a lot of talk about physics naturally. There was a talk about time travel too. What are the boundaries here between …
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Ask A Genius 795: FDR and Canon
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: All right so they started doing presidential approval surveys towards the end of FDR's administration a little more than 40 years ago and there's a trend that's accelerated over the past 20 years where as America grows more polarized people's support of the president has gone down. So the presidents who …
Ask A Genius 794: LSD, SAT, Substance Use and Misuse
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I started doing this series on substance use and misuse; others would say substance use and abuse. However you might use the terminology this brought to mind something that you've talked about as a one-off on using LSD for a second attempt at the SAT and still scoring very high …
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Ask A Genius 793: Rick Hates Workouts
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What's your favorite kind of workout? Rick Rosner: Well I don't like aerobics at all. I just hope to get some aerobic fitness out of just doing whatever. When I had a job there were a lot of stairs if you didn't take the elevator. So I feel like that …
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