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Books podcasts were talking about in September 2019
In September 2019, podcast conversations heavily featured works related to science, fiction, memory, and personal identity. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, host Peter Norvig reflected on his 1990s Lisp programming book, while another episode featured Regina Barzilay discussing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's fiction novel 'Americanah' and Daniel Keyes's classic 'Flowers for Algernon'. The Joe Rogan Experience also served as a platform for prominent literary discussions. Vinny Shoreman recommended Rudyard Kipling's story 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' as a metaphorical narrative, and Joe Rogan identified Max Brooks as the author behind the novels that inspired cinematic adaptations. Guest Joseph LeDoux appeared on the podcast to discuss his influential 1996 book 'The Emotional Brain' and his subsequent work 'Anxious', explaining how therapists utilized his writings to help patients understand physiological reactions and fear. Finally, Steve Aoki appeared on the podcast to announce and describe his memoir 'Blue'. These varied discussions demonstrated a shared underlying interest in human psychology, cognitive processes, literary fiction, and personal storytelling across different fields of expertise.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Artificial Intelligence
Discussed“so like i remember uh i did my list book in the 90s and one of the things i wanted to do was say uh here's how you do an object system”
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Americanah
Discussed“let me give you an example of a book which is not kind of which is a fiction book is a book called Americana and this is a book about a young female student who comes from Africa to study in the United States”
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Flowers for Algernon
Discussed“coming back to another book that I love flowers for algernon have you read this book”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
Discussed“I said to him watch rikki-tikki-tavi which is a story about a mongoose fight two snakes and it's a it's a metaphor so really cool matter for anyone to watch it on YouTube since 1975 cartoon. It's a story by Rudyard Kipling”
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Minecraft: The Mountain
Discussed“the novel's are supposed to be excellent weren't the novels written by some famous guys son who's who wrote them now max Brooks the son of Mel Brooks”
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The Emotional Brain
Discussed“In 1996 I published a book called the emotional brain and few years later I started finding out from therapists that the lot of patients were reading the book with their therapist and they were saying that it was really helping them understand why”
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Anxious
Discussed“so you know one of the things we've we've proposed a proposes in my last book anxious was a kind of test program for exploring this where be kind of a three-part three-step program”
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Blue
Discussed“and you kind of book bro I do call that noise blue the color of noise yeah what's this about it's my memoir”
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Homo Deus
Discussed“I'm on the second one right now yeah I just finished homo Davis”
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Fantastic Voyage
Discussed“I was with dr. Grossman he's the doctor I work with and he wrote the book with Ray Kurzweil called I think it's the sub the sub text of the book is stayin alive until we get told tell who you reached singularity or something like that He wrote that in with with Ray Kurzweil”
