The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 5 – Cutting Your Losses

In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 5 - Cutting Your Losses March 1, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is something to bear in mind when you are cutting your losses? Rick Rosner: My writing partner and I used to pitch a lot of shows, 15 and 20 years ago. …

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Ask A Genius 100 – Life and Death (Part 15)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 100 – Life and Death (Part 15)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner February 25, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Jacobsen: To the beginning of the conversation, the kind of the religious and modern secular taboos around sexual relations, and the way that bodily functions are all haphazard—boogers, eye …

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Ask A Genius 99 – Life and Death (Part 14)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 99 – Life and Death (Part 14)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner February 24, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Jacobsen: Society has many taboos around sex and sexual conduct, especially for the young and women (Sonny, 2012). These can be religiously based traditionally, but even in larger secular …

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Ask A Genius 98 – Life and Death (Part 13)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 98 – Life and Death (Part 13)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner 2017/02/23 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: We’ve been talking about death. We’ve been talking about evolution (Moran, 2006).[2] We should tie those things together. One, death is kind of tied into evolution (Kucharski, 2013). Evolution only …

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Ask A Genius 96 – Life and Death (11)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 96 – Life and Death (11) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 21, 2017 *Footnotes & in-text citations in the interview & references after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Rick: This book I am reading I great, and only 170 pages or so, because 1) he’s …

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Ask A Genius 95 – Life and Death (10)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 95 – Life and Death (10) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 20, 2017 *Footnotes & in-text citations in the interview & references after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Rick: The last time we spoke, I had begun to read a book by Thomas Wolfe called …

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Ask A Genius 94 – Life and Death (9)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 94 – Life and Death (9) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 19, 2017 *Footnotes in the interview & references after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Scott: What if these fundamental premises of the arguments we’re making about the future are not taken on hand by …

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Ask A Genius 93 – Life and Death (8)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 93 – Life and Death (8) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 18, 2017 *Footnotes in the interview & references after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Scott: Two things come to mind there – well, three actually. One, all of evolution builds on previous structures and …

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Ask A Genius 92 – Life and Death (7)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 92 – Life and Death (7) Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner February 17, 2017 *Footnotes in the interview & bibliography after the interview.* *This session edited for clarity and readability.* Rick: The people who might have the greatest intuitive understanding of the legal aspects of this stuff are the people …

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