In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 389 - Welcome to Star Bar September 21, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You saw some of the recent Star Wars movies. Let's hear it. Rick Rosner: I saw both latest Star Wars movies, Solo and Last Jedi. It is no secret that there are two major models of interstellar travel in entertainment. There are Star …
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Ask A Genius 388 – Demographics, Public Policy, and Public Rhetoric
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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Ask A Genius 387 – Eye for Eye, Graham for Graham, Evangelical for Evangelical
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 387 - Eye for Eye, Graham for Graham, Evangelical for Evangelical September 19, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, you were talking with me, off-tape, about young people. You were talking about how, for the most part, Evangelicals in the United States - in particular, the Dominionist/Reconstructionist form …
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Ask A Genius 386 – New Normals or Decay of Culture
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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Ask A Genius 385 – The Natural Philosophy of Information Theory
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 385 – The Natural Philosophy of Information Theory September 17, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the science of information in cosmology? Rick Rosner: The philosophical reason for not having entirely black holes. If the universe is made entirely of information, there is no way for the …
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Ask A Genius 384 – Baited to eBay
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 …
The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 17 – White Fragile Power
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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Ask A Genius 383 – Cudgels of Stupidity
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 …
Ask A Genius 382 – Almost, But Not Quite, So Never
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 382 - Almost, But Not Quite, So Never September 14, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You once asked me, "What would the physics be like if the force of gravitation is attenuated as you're collapsing an object - a potential black hole for instance - reaches an …
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Ask A Genius 381 – Outliers, Hang-Abouts, and Deviants
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 381 - Outliers, Hang-Abouts, and Deviants September 13, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are some of the things to focus on for the outliers in astronomical objects? Rick Rosner: A list of stuff older than the universe would be a good start, and what would happen …
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