Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-07-19
Lex Fridman & Konstantin Batygin: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #201
#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System
Konstantin Batygin is a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech.
Lex Fridman discussed The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner, The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Also mentioned: Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Discussed“that's brilliant I didn't come up with this this was this is a little book by the guy who started the institute for advanced studies”
Where to get it
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The Black Cloud
Discussed“about the black clouds book i think this by fred hoyle this is like this has great connections with sort of a lot of the advancements that are happening in nlp”
Where to get it
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Dark Side of the Moon
Discussed“and so i think you know if you were to you can sort of look at the entire dark side of the moon album and as you know getting pretty close up there to the pinnacle of what you know can be created”
Where to get it
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Discussed“and now let me leave you with some words from douglas adams in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and now let me leave you with some words from douglas adams in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green”