[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why do we think of things as beautiful? Rick Rosner: According to off the top of my head yesterday when I thought about it for like a minute maybe because we at base with the deepest feelings we have when we perceive beauty is we associate things we perceive as …
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Ask A Genius 721: High-IQ Societies
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We're discussing high-IQ societies for the magazine of the World Intelligence Network, founded by Evangelos Katsioulis. What was the original purpose of founding a high-IQ society? Rick Rosner: Mensa, one of the earliest high-IQ societies, was formed shortly after World War II in England, a time when the world was …
Ask A Genius 720: New Work, New Place, New Comments
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: You just moved into a new place which sounds great; your place of employment which is this giant equestrian joint catering to dozens and dozens of horses and riders and competitors and you have a really great apartment there and that led us to talking about living spaces. So I can …
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Ask A Genius 719: Jewish Comedy
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is Jewish comedy? Rick Rosner: Modern comedy emerged after World War II. Comedy went from Vaudeville; guys just standing on a stage telling jokes that weren't specific to the comedian to very personal comedy that originated mostly in the ‘60s. Then really exploded in the ‘70s and ‘80s where …
Ask A Genius 718: Things Suck in an Age of Marvels
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How come things suck in an age of Marvels? Rick Rosner: It's not how come; it's that they do it. It sucks that things suck in an age of Marvels. We are nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century, which is a science fiction century. When people …
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Ask A Genius 717: Triumph of Make-Believe
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You came up with a really great phrase right before recording and it was the triumph of make-believe and I was talking about some personalities which is part of a larger phenomena of people who live in a self-made world of make-believe and so my question to you is what …
Ask A Genius 716: Neil hamburger, What? No, but Tell Me More.
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: As the long-standing comedy writer in our duo and a member of the Mega Society, known for its one-in-a-million high IQ individuals, you have a unique perspective. With your impressive test scores and experience in humorously interpreting real-world observations, how do you perceive the evolution of cultures over time? I'm …
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Ask A Genius 715: Truckers Be Protestin’
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We're talking about the type of convoy in Canada and the emergence of Nazi symbols, Confederate flags at the protest. Rick Rosner: We should explain what the trucker convoy is. A bunch of truckers and I think just a bunch of people who own trucks just by looking at the …
Ask A Genius 714: John Baez’s Theory
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is a recursive Crackpot test session we are recording. So you begin and end on the Crackpot test. Rick Rosner: All right, so it's well known among people who are in the physics departments at universities that it's not super rare for a lunatic to show up at the …
Ask A Genius 713: Interactions Among All Particles in the Universe Defining the Particles and the Space
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: In IC we believe that the interactions among all the particles in the universe define all the particles and the space and I guess time, just everything in the universe is an embodiment of the interactions and the history of interactions among its constituent particles. So the more particles you have …
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