John Anthony West
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🗓️ 5 May 2014
⏱️ 79 minutes
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John Anthony West (born January 1, 1932 in New York) is an American author, lecturer, guide and a proponent of Sphinx water erosion hypothesis in geology. Influenced by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, in 1993 his work with Robert M. Schoch, a geologist and associate professor of natural science at the College of General Studies at Boston University was presented by Charlton Heston in a NBC special called "The Mystery of the Sphinx" that won West an News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Research and a nomination for Best Documentary. The documentary contends that the main type of weathering evident on the Great Sphinx and surrounding enclosure walls could only have been caused by prolonged and extensive rainfall during the time period from 10,000 to 5000 BCE and was carved out of limestone bedrock by an ancient advanced culture. This challenged the conventional dating of the carving of the statue circa 2500 BCE. West suggested that the Sphinx may be over twice as old as originally determined, whereas Schoch made a more conservative determination of between 5000 and 7000 BCE
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| 0:00.0 | beautiful rhythm music. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, hey, hey, hey, K-Poso everybody, you're listening to expanded perspectives with |
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| 2:49.8 | is a manimal. Well, apparently the Chinese are really fascinated with it, you know, and they did a |
| 2:56.1 | collective group of researchers in China took 360 students and they broke them up in the groups of |
| 3:01.8 | six and had them play 300 rounds of the game in random pairings. Okay. Okay. To make sure that the |
| 3:07.8 | players never lost their incentive or got bored that they they paid them some money. Now it doesn't |
| 3:11.1 | say what they paid them, but it doesn't matter what you need to know to win, right? Yeah. After |
| 3:15.1 | observing the many, many rounds, the scientists found that if a player wins over their opponent in one |
| 3:20.0 | play, their probability of repeating the same action in the next play is considerably higher than |
| 3:25.9 | the probabilities of shifting actions. So if I throw rock, I'm more likely to throw rock the next round. |
| 3:32.1 | That's what it's saying, right? It says, you know, if on the other hand, it says if a player loses two |
| 3:35.4 | or more times in a row, he or she were more likely not play the same sign, but will instead shift to a |
| 3:40.9 | different sign. So if player A has been on a losing streak and player B is just thrown down scissors |
| 3:47.9 | to beat A's paper, they will likely next throw down a rock, which stands and then it says that they |
| 3:54.5 | stand a good chance of winning since B is likely to stick with the previously used hand. So |
| 4:00.6 | there really is a strategy and they found out that you know, if you're winning and you're on a hot |
| 4:04.5 | streak, you become more predictable actually because when you start losing, you automatically start |
| 4:08.9 | second guessing yourself and you start shifting, no, you play, right? Yeah. Yeah. So if you break it |
| 4:13.7 | down by the numbers, mathematically, you can win more often at rock paper scissors by watching really |
| 4:20.1 | close on how the person's playing. I love that that's what we're worried about in today's modern |
| 4:24.2 | society is is Rosh Ambo getting our rock paper scissors. That makes me laugh. It really is pretty |
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