📚 3 Books mentioned in "StarTalk Podcast: Freakonomics, with Stephen J. Dubner & Neil deGrasse Tyson" of StarTalk Radio

I wrote an entire book on this called space chronicles and I write books so that I never have to talk about that subject again

Neil deGrasse Tyson mentions writing a book called 'space chronicles' to address the topic of space exploration investment.

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Just check out the rankings okay number one was Harry Potter number two for economics for the next year and a half it was number two was Freakonomics

James Altucher mentions that 'Harry Potter' was the number one book on Amazon when 'Freakonomics' debuted at number two.

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but you were worried you didn't know how the book would do and you were scared and I said I was lying I was just being nice I said don't worry it's gonna be a big hit Cuz I read the galley but I just was being nice I didn't know and then you called me a few days led later you said check out Amazon's rankings and I figured all it'll be like number a thousand number 2000 and you're like no Just check out the rankings okay number one was Harry Potter number two for economics for the next year and a half it was number two was Freakonomics

James Altucher tells a story about Stephen Dubner being worried about the book's success before its release, and how it became number two on Amazon.

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