Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-01-18
Lex Fridman & Brian Keating: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #257
#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize
Brian Keating is an experimental physicist at the UCSD, author of Losing the Nobel Prize, and host of the Into the Impossible podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.
Lex Fridman discussed Losing the Nobel Prize by Brian Keating and The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. Brian Keating recommended Animal Farm by George Orwell, and discussed The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg and Principles by Ray Dalio.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Losing the Nobel Prize
Discussed“you mentioned time machine i think in your book losing the nobel prize you talk about time machines”
Where to get it
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The First Three Minutes
The First Three Minutes is a popular science book by physicist Steven Weinberg that details the current scientific understanding of the universe's formation during the first few moments after the Big Bang.
Discussed“because we are not capable in other words going backwards from the first three minutes as famous stephen weinberg titled his book we actually marks a point where ignorance takes over”
Where to get it
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.
Discussed“so it which is interesting because you do bring up ernest becker in the denial of death in losing the nobel prize book”
Where to get it
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella that uses a farmyard setting to satirize the corruption of socialist ideals and the rise of totalitarianism following the Russian Revolution.
Recommended“i've asked him and then it comes from animal farm by probably my favorite book”
Where to get it
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Principles
Principles by Ray Dalio is a prominent business and life guide written by the billionaire investor, detailing the systematic mental models and foundational guidelines he developed throughout his career.
Discussed“in principles he says an expert is someone who's done something three times successfully like you can do one something correctly”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“the following is a conversation with brian keating experimental physicist at ussd and author of losing the nobel prize and into the impossible”
“the following is a conversation with brian keating experimental physicist at ussd and author of losing the nobel prize and into the impossible”
“you know just because you you you know and in my case in my books i i talk a lot about the nobel prize”
“yeah that book is in contradiction in the second book that's like a memoir”
“so even if i had which you know spoiler alert the book's called losing the nobel prize”
“he wrote the forward to this my book into the about he he won the nobel prize because a different guy died”