Ask A Genius 1582: London’s Built Spaces, Class Legacies, and Contemporary Antisemitism

Rick Rosner parcels Alien Earth into ten-minute rations, landing on the six children uploaded into super-strong synthetic adults. He doubts the show’s glossy mind-transfer fidelity by 2120, noting Nibs’s PTSD and delusional pregnancy after the Eye Midge attack. The Peter Pan naming frames ageless “Lost Boys,” adding textured worldbuilding; quirkiness matters. Alien Earth’s Maginot ship evokes the Maginot Line—impressive yet fatally bypassable. Rosner contrasts this care with Altered Carbon’s one-trick future. He then pivots to politics: a recent appeals-court blow to broad tariffs may temper inflation and reshape 2026 incentives, potentially sparing Republicans pain that higher prices could have delivered.

Ask A Genius 1173: October Surprises

*Interview conducted in October-November, 2024.* Rick Rosner: Speaking of something related but different, it’s less than two weeks until the election—12 days to be exact. Everyone’s on edge, waiting for any October surprises. This is a new topic. Perhaps the big October surprise concerning Trump could be some footage of him groping a teenager at …

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Ask A Genius 1131: The Lady Flat Earthed

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What has been your experience interacting with people analytically enveloped in dogmas like Flat Earth Theory? Rick Rosner: MAGA supporters generally tend to be more susceptible than others. I deal with that a lot because I post anti-MAGA and pro-Democrat content regularly, hoping to convince some people to vote for Democratic candidates …

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Ask A Genius 900: Canadian and American Politics

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I wanted to make a point about comparing Canadian and American politics. A recent thing arose that I think is essential with a woman named Selena Robinson; she's the minister of postsecondary education and future skills of British Columbia. She made an insensitive, according to many, comment about Israel and …

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Ask A Genius 899: California Under Attack?

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: California is attacked by Conservatives for just being a liberal hell and that people are fleeing California for the free states of Texas and Florida. There's a lot of bullshit in that California has lost about 1% of its population. Some people made a ton of money in California and want to …

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Ask A Genius 898: Niches of Persistence

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, I proposed a topic on how evolution finds all niches of persistence. Those are generic abstract terms. I wanted to start with reproduction styles, and I'm speaking more about biological reproduction. So, our species has its form of reproduction, and I'm speaking purely in terms of a continuation of a …

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Ask A Genius 896: Hypochondria

[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: This topic could be more interesting.  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I might disagree. Rosner: Okay. If I stack up enough physical complaints and irritations simultaneously happening in me, then I get flu-like symptoms that subside if I take a pain pill. So, I assume it's like fibromyalgia light or something like that where my feet …

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Ask A Genius 895: “I am the chosen one.”

[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Trump's quote is, "I am the chosen one." This is crazy talk coming from surveys of about a third of Americans who believe Trump was not ordained by God but guided or even selected by God to lead.  Rosner: Anything he does that seems terrible, like fucking porn or inciting an insurrection …

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