In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 425 - Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (2) October 27, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Apart from individual believers, does this impact the intrinsic claims of validity or veracity to divine inspiration to holy books? Rick Rosner: You can't overestimate the power of casually held and inconsistent beliefs. Right now in …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 424 - Scientific Nihilism: Nihil (1) October 26, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are scientific nihilism and its future? Rick Rosner: Scientific nihilism will not survive the era of big information. People get this idea that the universe is a big clockwork, even though it cannot be with …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 423 - Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? October 25, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is about god or gods. Rick Rosner: Or ways to believe in God. Jacobsen: Then the ways of belief within this. Rosner: You mentioned off-tape the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Jacobsen: Some of them aren't meant necessarily …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 422 - Aging, Bad Brains, and Conservatism Swings in Time and Attitudes (2) October 24, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: As change accelerates, you have more of a push on the fear end and disorientation end. Then you have more old people surviving into their 70s, 80s, and 90s …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 421 - Aging, Bad Brains, and Conservatism Swings in Time and Attitudes (1) October 23, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the math behind reliable demographics? Rick Rosner: The deal is, for the last 20 or 30 years, people have been saying that the Republican Party in America …
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 22 - Modern American Men and Women (1) October 22, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are the situations for modern men and modern women in America? Rick Rosner: The MeToo movement has been going on for about a year now, being more vocal …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 420 - The Physics of Punching (3) October 22, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: In an earlier time, when I was a kid in the 1970s, I had been bullied and ridiculed a lot. In 9th grade, I punched 6 classmates. I did not get into trouble. But that was …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 419 - The Physics of Punching (2) October 21, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: The drywall in our house was built in 1966. It's 5/8ths of an inch thick. I think more recent drywall is half of an inch thick. You will easily punch through 5/8ths drywall. In even …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 418 - The Physics of Punching (1) October 20, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the physics of punching [Laughing]? Rick Rosner: For someone who is somewhat of a wuss, such as myself, I have done a lot of punching in my life. I have punched a fair …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 417 - Monitoring Deviancy October 19, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The right and the left have valid arguments here. They tend to argue two points here. Conservatives argue fatherlessness. Liberals argue patriarchal structures in society. Both make sense. If you look at the prison population, the ISIS …
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