[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: Carol had us join the Y again. We quit The Y two years ago because it made no sense to pay 69 bucks a month for a family membership. It shut down for almost a year I think and then we waited another year before joining up again because it just …
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Ask A Genius 731: Frauds and Cheating
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So we were talking about frauds but not mentioning names. You wanted to say something. Rick Rosner: Well periodically in the high IQ world, there's some fraud-y stuff that goes on, actually in the testing world there's fraud-y stuff that goes on. There's some testing fraud that makes sense, like …
Ask A Genius 730: Divots
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why do you want to talk about divots? Rick Rosner: Okay. So one way to look at memory is, it's probably not the right way but it's not entirely the wrong way either is you've got a mental landscape and when you send out a query like “Who's that actor …
Ask A Genius 729: Cartoon Smokers
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why are cartoons smoking like that? Rick Rosner: Okay, so a question I'd want to start with is why are cartoons legible to us because when we look at the world we look at things in all their details as you know a person is a person. When you're looking …
Ask A Genius 728: Immutability of One
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Addendum to yesterday on numbers on the immutability of one. Rick Rosner: So yesterday we were talking about numbers and arithmetic and I thought a little bit more and my thinking is still not particularly clear, but I would just like to add at least all whole number mathematics is …
Ask A Genius 727: Math and Tattoos
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Throughout your life, you've been deeply engaged with numbers. Rick Rosner: Indeed. In fact, I got a tattoo symbolizing my affinity for math, although it's quite old now. That tattoo dates back to 1988, and as a result, it has become somewhat blurry. Jacobsen: I'm curious, how would you define …
Ask A Genius 726: Covid Numbers Dropping Fast
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What's the most recent update on Covid numbers? Rick Rosner: Covid numbers are dropping fast in a lot of countries. England, the U.S where I live in L.A County Covid numbers are down about 95% from the Omicron peak of six weeks ago or a month ago but there's still …
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Ask A Genius 725: 9/11
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: When 9/11 happened everybody pulled together under President Bush, a Republican and his approval rating rose into the mid ‘80s; the highest ever and peaked in one poll at 92%. So far the Republicans haven't pulled together behind Biden in time of war. So there is a further risk to America …
Ask A Genius 724: Russian and Ukraine Escalation
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Some people have been saying this is the worst day since the German invasion of Poland prior to or at the start of World War II. Is the Russian invasion of Ukraine with the most recent escalation of the Russo Ukrainian conflict that bad or is it bad but not …
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Ask A Genius 723: Pinky Addendum to Lost Session
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Addendum to yesterday, finishing the Harvard story. Go ahead. Rick Rosner: Okay so we've established that I in my 20s and into my early 30s even will go on Hinky for modeling assignment/auditions just for the possibility that they'll be weird and then I get out of there before any …
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