In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 388 - Demographics, Public Policy, and Public Rhetoric September 20, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What will be the future demographics of religion, especially given the main predictor, probably, of the next culture is the size of a household and the overarching metanarrative and belief structure of the …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 386 - New Normals or Decay of Culture September 18, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is Trump the new normal or not? A huge conversation between us preceded the recording today. Rick Rosner: I will not have definitive answers to several of the questions here: is Trump an anomaly …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 384 – Baited to eBay September 16, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Rick Rosner: Close to 30 years ago, when my wife and I first moved to LA, she worked at a small company. It had become fancy and medium-sized, and had become wildly popular in a 1980s …
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 17 – White Fragile Power September 15, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There was a person who put up or seems to have put up a "White Power" sign. What's up? Rick Rosner: Today was the first day of the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 383 – Cudgels of Stupidity September 15, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What happens when power enters the wrong hands? Rick Rosner: Cudgels of stupidity that end up in the wrong hands, end up in the hands of people with no morality. Jacobsen: If we look at the …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 380 - System of a Diagnostic September 12, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What else on Quora commenters? Rick Rosner: One of the claims of the theory is the universe possibly has consciousness because we tend to think that any sufficiently large and broadband sharing of information in …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 379 - Mathertime September 11, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You have an announcement. What's up? Rick Rosner: I am happy to announce. At the prodding of a mutual friend, who took Lance, J.D., and me out to dinner, Lance said, "Why don't you put your science money …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 378 - Supplanting and Expanding September 10, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How does the supplanting and expansion of Universal Gravitation by General Relativity lead to some thoughts about IC? Rick Rosner: When Newton set up his theory of Universal Gravitation, that all the matter in the universe …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 377 - Ground Control to Quora Tom September 9, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are some of your comments on the Quora commentary on IC? We just saw it. Rick Rosner: It is June 11, 2018 today. And you just pointed out to me this Quora thing. …
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In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 16 – To Kava-No or To Kava-Yes: Kavanaugh-ing at the Nation's Heels September 8, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is happening in American politics now? Rick Rosner: Right now, as we speak, we are towards the end of the hearings for the Supreme …
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