Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-05-15
Lex Fridman & Paul Rosolie: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #429
#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God
Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author, and founder of Junglekeepers, dedicating his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest.
Paul Rosolie discussed Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal and One River by Wade Davis. Lex Fridman discussed Plants of the Gods by Richard Evans Schultes and others and Hallucinogenic Plants by Richard Evans Schultes.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Discussed“You go back to that Frans de Waal book, "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?"”
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One River
Discussed“Richard Evan Schultes, I know about him from reading Wade Davis' book "One River", which is this big, hefty, you know, five or 600 page tome about the Amazon.”
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Plants of the Gods
Discussed“– Yeah, he wrote the "Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers".”
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Hallucinogenic Plants
Discussed“– Yeah, he wrote the "Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers".”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Mother of God
“In "Mother of God", I write about the first one that me and JJ caught together, which was probably a little bigger than this table.”
Plugged Mother of God
“In 'Mother of God', I write about the first one that me and JJ caught together, which was probably a little bigger than this table.”
Plugged Mother of God
“So a lot of the stuff that I wrote about in "Mother of God", us jumping on anacondas and trying to catch them, and at first it just seemed like something we were doing to learn, to just try and see them.”