📚 5 Books mentioned in "Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #247" of Lex Fridman Podcast

I mean I live a big chunk of My Life um living in in the world of genetics and biotech and my book hacking Darwin is about the future of human genetic engineering

The speaker (Jamie Metzel) mentions his book 'Hacking Darwin' and its topic.

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and it's there's a wonderful full book called Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and he even talks about a city as something like this where everybody you have your life but then you have all these alternate lives and every time you make any decision you're kind of and so but in this Invisible Cities there's a little string that goes toward that alternate life and then the city becomes this weaving of all the strings of people's real lives and the alternate lives that they could have taken had they made any other any other different steps

The speaker mentions a 'wonderful full book' and describes its theme related to alternate lives.

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there's a great book called The Long game by Rush Doshi who's actually now working in the in the White House about this goal and and are pretty clearly articulated goal to subvert this the post-war International order

The speaker mentions a 'great book' about China's strategy and names the title and author.

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um my friend AJ Jacobs he had a wonderful book that I I use the spirit of it in the ceremonies and not the exactly but he was in a a restaurant in New York coffee shop and his child said hey where does the coffee come from

The speaker mentions a 'wonderful book' by AJ Jacobs and describes its premise about tracing the origins of everyday things and thanking people involved.

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so there's this excellent book that people should read uh called viral the search for the origin of covid-19 Matt Ridley and Alina Chan

The speaker recommends an 'excellent book' about the origin of COVID-19 and names the title and authors.

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