📚 3 Books mentioned in "StarTalk Podcast: The End of The World, with Josh Clark and Neil deGrasse Tyson" of StarTalk Radio

have you seen the book life after man I saw like this special on out like discovery or something maybe they made that after the book They did so I thought you were talking about a lifetime special Christmas enlightenment so if we so who do we keep trying to kill that lives with us like the mice and rats right right so if we're out of the way what sets the upper size of a mouse or a rat is that it can escape from being killed by us by going to a pipe or a hole if we're not there nothing to stop the growth of rodent

Neil asks Josh if he has seen the book 'Life After Man', which discusses what life might be like on Earth after humans are gone.

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or a towel Don't forget your towel That's a Hitchhiker's Guide

Chuck mentions the importance of a towel in an apocalypse, referencing 'Hitchhiker's Guide'.

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some reason why I thought about that recently I was asked to review a book written by some MIT physicists and engineers okay and it's called the physics of energy the physics of energy just came out god oh that looks like a textbook it is kind of a textbook okay yeah it's based on courses they taught I okay the physics of energy Robert Jaffe Washington Taylor And so I actually blurbed the book even books like this you can get blurbs I couldn't put it down there goes ready all right here go buy one textbook this year if your task was to jumpstart civilization but had access to only one book then the physics of energy would be your choice Wow professors Taylor and Jaffe have written a comprehensive thorough and relevant treatise it's an energizing read as a standalone book but it should also be a course offered at every college lest we miss manage a collective role as shepherds of our energy hungry energy dependent civilization sweet drop have anything to do with the with the chap that I see sitting on this table here from Taylor engine no that was just to cover the postage Oh so the point is you don't want to have to wait for another Isaac Newton to be born to discover the physics and then you want to you want to start where you left off so and so that's what this book would do cool that was a really good answer yeah better than a towel I think I mean food I don't mean to besmirch no it's alright you know Douglas Adams here but it was a jokey answer

Neil deGrasse Tyson mentions reviewing and blurbing a book titled 'The Physics of Energy' by Robert Jaffe and Washington Taylor, recommending it as the single book to restart civilization.

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