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The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set
Richard P. Feynman
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Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself? With Brian Cox
Light
Kimberly Arcand
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Listening to the Universe with Kimberly Arcand
The World in Six Songs
Daniel J. Levitin
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Is Music the Language of the Universe? with Daniel Levitin
The Singing Neanderthals
Steven Mithen
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Successful Aging
Daniel J. Levitin
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Is Music the Language of the Universe? with Daniel Levitin
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
Daniel J. Levitin
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Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium
Jr. Lyman Spitzer
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Dark Comets with Darryl Seligman
The Physical Universe
Frank H. Shu
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A Mathematician's Apology
G H Hardy
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Our Mathematical Universe with Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown)
Contact
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
It was discussed that reducing the cost of 'green premium' on human activities may be enough to lessen carbon emissions and eradicate greenhouse gas emissions, based on the book's proposal.
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In the book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates proposes that we will only reduce carbon emissions if we cut the cost of what he calls green premium on every human activity.
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It was discussed that reducing the cost of 'green premium' on human activities may be enough to lessen carbon emissions and eradicate greenhouse gas emissions, based on the book's proposal.
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In the book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates proposes that we will only reduce carbon emissions if we cut the cost of what he calls green premium on every human activity.
The Book of Five Rings
Joe Rogan mentioned reading ancient samurai works, particularly this book, because he found the philosophy relevant to the intense pressure of one-on-one sword fights.
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I used to read a lot of ancient samurai work because they dealt with the most stressful thing possible, a one-on-one sword fight with a person. So I felt like his philosophy in particular was very rel...
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Joe Rogan mentioned reading ancient samurai works, particularly this book, because he found the philosophy relevant to the intense pressure of one-on-one sword fights.
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I used to read a lot of ancient samurai work because they dealt with the most stressful thing possible, a one-on-one sword fight with a person. So I felt like his philosophy in particular was very relevant.
Fifty Shades Darker 10th Anniversary Edition (Fifty Shades of Grey Series, 2)
It was used as an example of a book with characters and a story, which were the necessary elements of a story, though it was said that this would not be enough to guarantee a best-seller.
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Are there characters in Fifty Shades of Grey? Yes.
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Episode: The Power of Storytelling, with Salman Rushdie
It was used as an example of a book with characters and a story, which were the necessary elements of a story, though it was said that this would not be enough to guarantee a best-seller.
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Are there characters in Fifty Shades of Grey? Yes.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
It was mentioned as an example of Philip K. Dick's work, which later became the film *Blade Runner*. It was highlighted as one of his impactful sci-fi pieces.
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For example his short story do androids dream of electric sheep became Later on her that's right. We can remember it for you wholesale became What will recall and the man in the high castle became a m...
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It was mentioned as an example of Philip K. Dick's work, which later became the film *Blade Runner*. It was highlighted as one of his impactful sci-fi pieces.
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For example his short story do androids dream of electric sheep became Later on her that's right. We can remember it for you wholesale became What will recall and the man in the high castle became a man in the high castle
The Uninhabitable Earth
Life After Warming
It was discussed as a book that helped Adam McKay to form his ideas for the movie 'Don't Look Up', as he was losing sleep thinking about the state of the climate and world.
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And I really started like my wife can tell you at a certain point, I was losing sleep and I kept kind of looking at our world and going, what am I missing here? And rather than do, you know, my initia...
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It was discussed as a book that helped Adam McKay to form his ideas for the movie 'Don't Look Up', as he was losing sleep thinking about the state of the climate and world.
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And I really started like my wife can tell you at a certain point, I was losing sleep and I kept kind of looking at our world and going, what am I missing here? And rather than do, you know, my initial idea was, oh, do a big, dramatic, dystopic, serious movie.
And I had the fortunate, unfortunate experience of colliding with a lot of this information from reading scientific reports and reading a great book by David Wallace Wells called Uninhabitable Earth, which if you haven't read it, read it and it will wake you up when it comes to the climate.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
It was mentioned as one of Harari's widely read books, and served as a backdrop to the discussion of various topics, like the role of AI and the future of civilization.
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You know him from his widely read books, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and other books.
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Episode: Inventing Society with Yuval Noah Harari
It was mentioned as one of Harari's widely read books, and served as a backdrop to the discussion of various topics, like the role of AI and the future of civilization.
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You know him from his widely read books, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and other books.
And you may know him as the author of some hugely best-selling books, Sapiens, A Brief History of Mankind, Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century,
Archaeology from Space
How the Future Shapes Our Past
Sarah Parcak's 2019 book titled "Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past" was mentioned. It focuses on the use of space-based assets to map archaeological sites, and how this technology helps shape our understanding of the past.
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And your 2019 book with Henry Holt "Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past" How the future shapes our past. That's a that's a twist on the timeline That's a Marty McFl...
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Episode: Space Archaeology with Sarah Parcak
Sarah Parcak's 2019 book titled "Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past" was mentioned. It focuses on the use of space-based assets to map archaeological sites, and how this technology helps shape our understanding of the past.
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And your 2019 book with Henry Holt "Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past" How the future shapes our past. That's a that's a twist on the timeline That's a Marty McFly moment for those listening It's your kid Marty.
Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology
Sarah Parcak is the author of the first textbook on satellite archaeology. The book is titled "Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology" and was published by Routledge.
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Is this true you? Wrote a textbook the first textbook on satellite archaeology which means you wrote the book on the subject I actually legit wrote the book.
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Episode: Space Archaeology with Sarah Parcak
Sarah Parcak is the author of the first textbook on satellite archaeology. The book is titled "Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology" and was published by Routledge.
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Is this true you? Wrote a textbook the first textbook on satellite archaeology which means you wrote the book on the subject I actually legit wrote the book.
Okay it's subtitled Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology a published by Rutledge a good academic publisher there
Cat's Cradle (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
It was mentioned in passing as a source of a hypothetical question about the last words ever spoken by humans, with the idea of a scientist exploring a new idea being the final words.
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I'm told, although I don't remember this, someone told me that in one of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, they, he hypothesized what are the last words ever spoken by anyone in the human species?
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It was mentioned in passing as a source of a hypothetical question about the last words ever spoken by humans, with the idea of a scientist exploring a new idea being the final words.
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I'm told, although I don't remember this, someone told me that in one of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, they, he hypothesized what are the last words ever spoken by anyone in the human species?
It's one scientist saying to the other, I wonder what happens if we do it this way?
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga, 1)
It was discussed as a book about children in a battle school in space, developing new strategies and combat in zero gravity. It was also mentioned to be a bit creepy in nature.
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For those people who aren't familiar with Enders game, that was a novel written by Orson Scott Card a number of decades ago, where to fight an alien menace, a number of children were put into a place...
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Episode: Cosmic Queries: Space Balls?
It was discussed as a book about children in a battle school in space, developing new strategies and combat in zero gravity. It was also mentioned to be a bit creepy in nature.
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For those people who aren't familiar with Enders game, that was a novel written by Orson Scott Card a number of decades ago, where to fight an alien menace, a number of children were put into a place called the battle school. And they were out in space and trying to figure out all kinds of new strategies and methods that the adults put them in.
And it was a little creepy of a book actually. But nevertheless...
Midnight's Children (Everyman's Library)
It was mentioned as one of Salman Rushdie's twelve novels, demonstrating his extensive body of work in fiction. It was included alongside other well-known titles.
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He's a celebrated author of 12 novels, including Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses.
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Episode: The Power of Storytelling, with Salman Rushdie
It was mentioned as one of Salman Rushdie's twelve novels, demonstrating his extensive body of work in fiction. It was included alongside other well-known titles.
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He's a celebrated author of 12 novels, including Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses.
Motherless Brooklyn; The Fortress of Solitude
Introduction by Charles Yu (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
The basis for Edward Norton's film of the same name, it was a contemporary novel that he adapted, changing the setting to 1950s New York City.
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But it's Jonathan's book which is beloved is it's really a character study. It's a character study of This mind you you're inside his head and the plot Is is Byzantine and and sort of a frame for this...
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Episode: A Conversation with Edward Norton
The basis for Edward Norton's film of the same name, it was a contemporary novel that he adapted, changing the setting to 1950s New York City.
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But it's Jonathan's book which is beloved is it's really a character study. It's a character study of This mind you you're inside his head and the plot Is is Byzantine and and sort of a frame for this character?
When I became interested in adapting it, I said to Jonathan that to the author. Yeah, John. Yes. Sorry, Jonathan Latham He he's from Brooklyn born and raised and I said look, you know if this is a this is the greatest character in the greatest like interior mental landscape and but the film a film is a tableau it's a bigger tableau and I I knew Jonathan loved noir films and I sort of proposed to him I said this is a little radical but what if we take the core of this book this guy with this condition? But we set it in a moment when if we open it up into New York social history instead of sort of dispense with the plot of the book and let it be let this Tourette detective take us into a More Chinatown scale canvas of what Chinatown is in the film.
The Sports Gene
Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
It was discussed as a book about sports genetics that the host had previously read, and David Epstein was invited on the show because of it.
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I love when science people apply their science knowledge to other disciplines and this is great. So you're a science writer and you wrote a book, The Sports Gene Inside the Science of...
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Episode: Making a Phenom: Genetics
It was discussed as a book about sports genetics that the host had previously read, and David Epstein was invited on the show because of it.
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I love when science people apply their science knowledge to other disciplines and this is great. So you're a science writer and you wrote a book, The Sports Gene Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance.
That was published a few years ago. Who was the publisher of that? It was a division of Penguin Random House called Current.
So David, why do you have a job? Well, I wrote my book about sports genetics, everything I thought was known, and then I moved on to doing different stuff.
I talked about sudden death. So let me use that condition just as an example of why it's so hard.
I think there's a limitation, you know, to some of what we'll figure out in terms of a genetic basis.
Fuzz
When Nature Breaks the Law
It explored the concept of applying human laws to animal behavior, illustrating how various animals, from deer to mountain lions, might be considered lawbreakers in a human context.
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So what you've done here, Mary, it's from tells me that you've you've taken laws of civilization as we know it. And then I applied them to animals to see which animals in nature would break laws.
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Episode: Cosmic Queries – Animal Outlaws with Mary Roach
It explored the concept of applying human laws to animal behavior, illustrating how various animals, from deer to mountain lions, might be considered lawbreakers in a human context.
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So what you've done here, Mary, it's from tells me that you've you've taken laws of civilization as we know it. And then I applied them to animals to see which animals in nature would break laws.
Yeah, because animals are I mean, they're basically just being animals. You know, they're they got to eat. They got a crap and they got to find a place to live.
And so they're not really to them. It's not criminal behavior, but they're doing it by breaking and entering by trespassing and sometimes by killing people.
So, you know, you got murder, manslaughter, home invasion with bears. You got trespassing. You got littering vandal jaywalking.
When Nature Breaks the Law.
Normal Accidents
Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
It was mentioned in the context of the Challenger disaster, proposing that the accident stemmed from the system's culture and risk management rather than individual error.
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There's a great sociologist called Charles Perot who wrote a book about what he called Normal Accident Theory.
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Episode: StarTalk Live! Sociology and the Human Condition
It was mentioned in the context of the Challenger disaster, proposing that the accident stemmed from the system's culture and risk management rather than individual error.
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There's a great sociologist called Charles Perot who wrote a book about what he called Normal Accident Theory.
Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition
An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
It was mentioned as a big, fat, beautifully illustrated book celebrating unusual and interesting things around the world, and discussed in the context of how electric vehicles could impact travel in the future.
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And in fact, I didn't even remember this until I said, why do I remember? And then, I own the man's book. The man has a book with that title and came out a few years ago. And he did send it to me.
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It was mentioned as a big, fat, beautifully illustrated book celebrating unusual and interesting things around the world, and discussed in the context of how electric vehicles could impact travel in the future.
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And in fact, I didn't even remember this until I said, why do I remember? And then, I own the man's book. The man has a book with that title and came out a few years ago. And he did send it to me.
I got this on my own accord. It's a big, fat book. And it's beautifully illustrated. And it's a discussion. It's a celebration of all things in the world that people do and participate in and worship and visit.
The High Frontier
Human Colonies in Space
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Matt Kirshen discussed Jerry O'Neill's vision for life in space as discussed in 'The High Frontier'. It was mentioned that Ariel Ekblaw was a fan of his work and was inspired by it.
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I am a huge Jerry O'Neill fan.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Matt Kirshen discussed Jerry O'Neill's vision for life in space as discussed in 'The High Frontier'. It was mentioned that Ariel Ekblaw was a fan of his work and was inspired by it.
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I am a huge Jerry O'Neill fan.
High frontier, like his vision for life in space, I think was really compelling.
High Frontier, one of his books.
The China Study
Deluxe Revised and Expanded Edition
It was mentioned as a plant-based, whole foods study that was very influential and inspired Tony Gonzalez to change his diet after a health scare.
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I was reading this book called The China Study, written by Dr. Campbell and it was a plant-based, whole foods, plant-based study.
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Episode: Conquering the Game, with Tony Gonzalez
It was mentioned as a plant-based, whole foods study that was very influential and inspired Tony Gonzalez to change his diet after a health scare.
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I was reading this book called The China Study, written by Dr. Campbell and it was a plant-based, whole foods, plant-based study.
They studied diets in all the different provinces of China and compared them because China gets to obtain that kind of data on their citizens.
That's what enables that. That's what I say, it's a China study.
Toughlove
It was mentioned as Susan Rice's memoir, detailing her experiences and perspective on 'tough love' parenting and her time as National Security Advisor to President Obama.
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She came out with a book called Tough Love.
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Episode: Tough Love and Geopolitics, with Susan Rice
It was mentioned as Susan Rice's memoir, detailing her experiences and perspective on 'tough love' parenting and her time as National Security Advisor to President Obama.
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She came out with a book called Tough Love.
And she's author of the memoir Tough Love, my story of the things worth fighting for.
Who's got her new book, Tough Love.
We're talking about mental toughness, a running theme in her book, Tough Love.
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