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Books podcasts were talking about in January 2020
During January 2020, various podcasts explored personal histories, scientific theories, and specialized literature. On The Joe Rogan Experience, guest Daryl Davis discussed his book Clandestine Relationships, noting that it was currently out of print while he worked on a second edition featuring new and updated stories. Kevin Ross also appeared on the same program to talk about his work as a writer, mentioning that he was actively working on his autobiography alongside his previous books. Additionally, Joe Rogan brought up Mark Wolynn's book It Didn't Start with You, highlighting its exploration of how trauma can be passed down generationally. Meanwhile, the Lex Fridman Podcast featured discussions touching upon complex academic and theoretical texts. David Chalmers appeared on the show and mentioned Thomas Nagel's book Mind and Cosmos, noting its teleological view of evolution toward consciousness and how it challenges traditional Darwinism. Christos Goodrow also appeared on the Lex Fridman Podcast to discuss technical literature, specifically referencing classical recursion theory and the ways specialized texts are packaged. Across these different episodes, hosts and guests examined how written works capture personal struggles, generational experiences, and rigorous scientific or mathematical concepts.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Klan Whisperer
Discussed“so your book what is it titled the book is called clandestine spell with AK a clandestine relationships and right now that that book is out of print I'm working on the second edition second copy which will handle all new stories and and plus a lot of the old stuff and updates”
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Radio Facts Power Play List Magazine
Discussed“I am I'm actually in the process of writing my opera up biography right now which I've been working on pretty consistently for the last five years something that you know I really was doing it for myself in a lot of ways to have an understanding of the things that I've been through and the things that I've learned”
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It Didn't Start with You
Discussed“What's even crazier about that as I read a book called it didn't start with you and it talks about how these things are passed on generationally from like trauma”
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My Life in Football
Discussed“you know I'm I'm a writer like I said I'm working on my autobiography right now I've written two books so far”
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Miracle Workers, S.C.E. Book Two
Discussed“like I said I'm working on my autobiography right now I've written two books so far I'm an artist”
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How to Fight Anti-Semitism
Discussed“you're not religious you think going back to your book do you think my book even started on that”
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Blood and Thunder
Discussed“there's another great book well there's quite a few from a blood and thunder it's yes hit Carson read that yeah yeah that dude get him on the show”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Zen and Horseback Riding
Discussed“actually my colleague here at NYU Tom Nagel wrote a book called mind and cosmos a few years ago where we are for this teleological view of evolution toward consciousness saying this let the problems for Darwinism”
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Cosmos 2
Discussed“actually my colleague here at NYU Tom Nagel wrote a book called mind and cosmos a few years ago where we are for this teleological view of evolution toward consciousness saying this let the problems for Darwinism”
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Recursive function theory : [proceedings of the Fifth Symposium in Pure Mathematics of the American Mathematical Society ; held at the Hotel New Yorker, New York, New York, April 6 - 7, 1961]
Discussed“like the people who who write classical recursion theory by pure OD Freddie he was fine with the yellow title and the and nothing more whereas I think other people who who wrote a more popular type book understand that they need to have a compelling cover and a compelling title”
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Discussed“if anyone wants to start to understand it if they have like a math background of some like they studied some in college or something like that like the princeton companion to math has a really good article on analytic number theory”
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A Mathematician's Lament
Discussed“so in in a mathematicians limit Paul Lockhart writes: the first thing to understand is that mathematics is an art the difference between math and the other arts such as music and painting is that our culture does not recognize it as such”
