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Books podcasts were talking about in February 2020
In February 2020, various podcasts explored distinct literary and informational recommendations across diverse subjects. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, Marcus Hutter recommended "An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications" by Ming Li and Paul M.B. Vitányi as an information-theoretic guide. The Joe Rogan Experience featured multiple book discussions, with Owen Smith naming Dick Gregory's "The Shadow that Scares Me" as his favorite work by the author, and Raghunath Cappo recommending "The Journey Home" by Radhanath Swami. ChooseFI hosted John Zeratsky, who highlighted Winifred Gallagher's "Rapt" during the hot seat segment. The Book Review roundtable included Tina Jordan discussing Ruth Rendell's novel "Vanity Dies Hard" and Concepción de Leon exploring Charlotte Alter's political work "The Ones We've Been Waiting For." Meanwhile, Bill Burr shared his enthusiasm for Mark Evans' AC/DC book "Dirty Deeds" on the Monday Morning Podcast, and Chris Williamson concluded an episode of Modern Wisdom by recommending John Assaraf's "Innercise."
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The mind is flat
Discussed“Nicholas Chater wrote an interesting book I think the saw delivers the mind is flat flat”
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An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications
Recommended“if you like the information theoretic approach then there's Kolmogorov complexity by Alene batani but probably you know some some short article is enough you don't need to read a whole book but it's a great book”
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Morphology of the Folktale
Discussed“So you're talking about Vladimir Propp, who in 1928 published a book, "Morphology of the Folk Tale."”
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The Road Not Taken, and Other Poems
Discussed“do the Robert Frost poem road less taken”
The Book Review
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Dark Towers
Discussed“David enrich will be here to discuss his book dark Towers”
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The Mercies
Discussed“Kieran Milwood Hargrave will be here to talk about the basis of her new novel The mercies”
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Demonology
Discussed“that all began with a book right demonology exactly it was his treaties on how to find spot and prove a witch”
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The Power Notebooks
Discussed“so I reviewed this week the power notebooks by Katie royy and Katie royy as some or many of our listeners might know is well known for her pical essays”
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Supreme Inequality
Discussed“Adam Cohen will join us to talk about his new book Supreme inequality”
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Imbeciles
Discussed“I want to get into that in a moment but I want to start first with your last book before this imbeciles because it also looked at some pretty Grim history in American Court history”
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Grand Union Stories
Discussed“I talked in a recent podcast about her Story collection Grand Union”
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Vanity Dies Hard
Recommended“so I'm reading a very old Ruth Rendell novel called vanity dies hard which I actually picked up at my library's most recent book sale”
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The Ones We've Been Waiting For
Recommended“so I decided to lean into politics and I'm reading the ones we've been waiting for how a new generation of leaders will transform America by Charlotte alter who is a Time Magazine political reporter”
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Seduction
Discussed“his new book is called seduction a history from the enlightenment to the present”
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Pamela
Discussed“at the time if your name Pamela you're essentially forced to read Samuel Richardson so you know it comes with the”
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Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life; and particularly shewing the distresses that may attend the misconduct both of parents and children, in relation to marriage ..
Discussed“they had read pamer and Clarissa Richardson his name checked in Eugene andan”
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Eugene Onegin
Discussed“Richardson his name checked in Eugene andan and of course they were all obsessed with Byron”
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Indelicacy
Discussed“it's called in delicacy by Amina ke Liz thanks for for being here”
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Weather
Discussed“another one that I recommended this month is a book called Department of speculation by Jenny oall who has a new book that just came out called weather which I think you talked about on the podcast last week”
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Unmaking the Presidency
Discussed“the book that I reviewed last week was on making the presidency by Susan Hennessy and Benjamin whtas and you know they're two national security pundits”
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Happenstance
Recommended“the first is a book called happens Dance by a Canadian author named Carol Shields who is really one of my favorites”
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn
Discussed“Leslie Jameson is here in the studio her most recent book is make it scream make it burn essays which was reviewed in the book review last fall”
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Last things
Discussed“this book weather is her third novel her first was last things and then it took her 15 years to write her next book”
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Romance in Marseille
Discussed“including just this month Claude McKay's novel romance in Marseilles which was a novel of the Harlem Renaissance that took 87 years to finally come out but was published as a penguin classic”
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Before and After the Book Deal
Discussed“her new book is called before and after the book deal a writer's guide to finishing publishing promoting and surviving your first book”
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I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
Discussed“I think it started when my first book came out a novel called I'm having so much fun here without you”
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The birth partner
Discussed“the next book is the birth partner by penny simkin with Katie Ross and I am rereading this”
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The Night Country
Discussed“and then the second book that I read while I was away is called the night country which came out last fall”
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House of Trelawney
Recommended“so I'm reading a novel called the house of trani by Hannah Rothchild and this was recommended to me by Elida Becker”
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The Black Cathedral
Recommended“so I've got two books to talk about cuz I'm greedy but the first is the black Cathedral by marcial Gala and really wonderfully translated by Anna Kushner from the Spanish”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Grizzly Man
Discussed“he's the director of my all-time favorite comedy Grizzly Man it's a accidental comedy”
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The hurt locker
Discussed“do you see Hurt Locker i I've seen parts of it what did you think about it it's a little dramatic”
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Summary & Analysis of Lifespan Why We Age- And Why We Don't Have to
Discussed“Even David... David is probably the person out of my colleagues who pushes the envelope as much as possible out of people who have regular faculty positions But you know he's just written a book which I see you have on yourself and called you know why we age and why we don't have to He could not have written”
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The Shadow that Scares Me
Recommended“he has a great book he has a book called [ __ ] but his best book I won't say best... my favorite book of his is called the shadow that scares me and it's really him like giving solutions to all of these like problems that that are you know but that were in the narrative at that time”
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The Journey Home
Recommended“incredible incredible stories called Auto bug a journey home autobiography of an American yogi”
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Discussed“where was the whole Thomas Friedman position when he wrote about it in Lexus and the olive tree that if we globalized the world that economic that you're at you lift a lot of people out of poverty or your economic pie grows but your politics shrink”
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Mucusless Diet Healing System
Discussed“like i um i read this book the mucus Liz diet and it's by dr. Arnold eret and this is like in the early 1900's he came up with this book and had some stomach issues”
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Discussed“and it talked about that in Black Elk life of an American visionaries most recent one that I'm reading”
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Dominion
Discussed“I don't think it's a coincidence that most woke people a fist s-- because this is their alternative for radical religion I think that's probably right there you know Tom Holland wrote is a historian he wrote a book recently called Dominion he makes this case that with the absence of Christianity in comes woken us that it was just”
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Discussed“I mean but this is this is you scraping the surfaces so one of the big selling books was good night stories for rebel girls which like each chapters about a major feminist icon that's aimed at young kids”
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The Little Girl Who Gave Zero Fucks
Discussed“there's one called see is for consent that's aimed at very young kids there's one called the little girl who gave zero [ __ ] right this is this sort of you know it's funny I look at this stuff I think this is such flagrant indoctrination”
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Once upon a time in ... Hollywood
Discussed“so like you saw that with Tarantino with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
StarTalk Radio
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Death By Black Hole
Discussed“actually I that essay appears in in my death by black hole book No really produced there Yes we and might I don't think I put it in my so it's out there okay so should I spend time on that here and now or should you just go by the book No did why I run black hole barroom”
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Tough Love
Discussed“she came out with a book called tough love tough love”
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Russian Roulette
Recommended“I point to a microwave Goff has a book called the Russian Roulette but it's it's a really good breakdown of what happened with us in terms of what Russia did”
Behind the Bastards
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The filibusters
Discussed“I'd like to open part two uh this episode uh with a paragraph from the book Filibusters and Financiers uh which is again a 1916 book that is kind of like beusedly positive towards William Walker and the ideas of manifest destiny.”
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The Financier
Discussed“I'd like to open part two uh this episode uh with a paragraph from the book Filibusters and Financiers uh which is again a 1916 book that is kind of like beusedly positive towards William Walker and the ideas of manifest destiny.”
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The War in Nicaragua
Discussed“In 1860, he published a book, The War in Nicaragua, and named himself as General William Walker on the title page.”
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William Walker's Wars
Discussed“And here's how the biography William Walker's Wars which is a very good biography describes his uh his college education.”
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Man of Arms
Discussed“I'm going to quote now from Basil's biography, Man of Arms. Again, on March 18th, 1914, on the very brink of the coming disaster, Philip Snowden, disease-racked, crippled socialist labor leader Rosen Commons to make a speech.”
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Men of Wealth
Discussed“I found a really neat interesting book called Men of Wealth by a guy named John Flynn that does a good job of illustrating how this web came together.”
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Young Hitler
Critiqued“She used several segments from August Kubisc's ill-advised book, The Young Hitler. I knew Kubazc was Hitler's friend when they were like teenagers, HBO series. Um, he wrote a terrible book.”
My First Million
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Encountering the Holy Spirit in Every Book of the Bible
Discussed“I guarantee you their Bible has hidden away because it got passed down to them they got it for oral it's it's hideous but if you think of what is on I shouldn't say hideous but it's not the best looking book it's okay but if I think what is on people's coffee tables right now it's kinfolk right it's”
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Kinfolk
Discussed“but if I think what is on people's coffee tables right now it's kinfolk right it's things that are going that they're buying that are beautifully bound that they're visual and so I think there's this really great opportunity to reinvent what the Bible actually looks like and create like the kinfolk of Bibles”
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The Gita: For Children
Discussed“or if you look at the Gita or the Koran or whatever these are all in the top sellers of all time”
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The Koran
Discussed“or if you look at the Gita or the Koran or whatever these are all in the top sellers of all time”
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The Gospel of Saint Mark in West-Saxon
Discussed“so Netflix didn't really a pretty interesting movie on the book of Mark right”
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Misbelief
Discussed“so we would you know we started just adding words as one experiment we would have one version of our website where it was all online ordering so is one version of our website would be the normal website then our a B test was the other variation was our Philadelphia roll would be called like we called the Philadelphia”
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Attack of the Mutant (Goosebumps #25)
Discussed“like cooked is the modern-day goosebumps so when we were growing up we would read Goosebumps books and that was what hooked us as a kid”
EconTalk
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Willful
Discussed“he's the author of willful how we choose what to do which is the topic of today's conversation”
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Narrative Economics
Discussed“I guess the question that that came to my mind in reading your book is how do we know that these stories that we tell ourselves...”
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Principles of Economics
Discussed“the smart man his textbook principles of economics it's pretty good I was thinking about signing it now that was 1890 when he wrote that it's a good book”
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The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Discussed“in the third edition to his principles of political economy in the 1830s David Ricardo was one of the dominant economists at that time in his preface to the book - the third edition said I am now adding a new chapter on machines”
ChooseFI
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Rapt
Recommended“I'm gonna give you my favorite book which is a book called wrapped r-a-p-t and it is um it's by Winifred Gallagher”
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Dave Ramseys Complete Guide To Money The Handbook Of Financial Peace University
Discussed“I credit Dave Ramsey for that I read his book when I was like 14 Financial Peace University my dad handed it to me”
The Rubin Report
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The Good Book
Discussed“He wrote this book called "The Good Book", and he takes all these issues and goes back to show how both sides of the argument over the years have used the Bible in their favor.”
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The Redneck Manifesto
Discussed“And the other point is Jim Goad, the writer who wrote "The Redneck Manifesto" he made the point that every single stereotype that was applied in the past toward poor, low status blacks was overnight by these same people applied to poor low status whites.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Dirty Deeds
Recommended“Mark Evans the original bass player for ac/dc wrote a book called dirty deeds it's already in paperback I know it's been out probably since the ending of last year I'm tearing through this book”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Mind's Eye
Discussed“He has two books, one called Hallucinations, the other one called The Mind's Eye, where he goes into specifics on CBS, and he's probably documented more cases than anybody.”
This Week in Startups
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Punished by Rewards
Discussed“there's another great book called punished by rewards by Alfie Cohen that outlines all the scientific research on why incentive systems don't work and the key reason is that they push out the intrinsic motivation”
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Edge
Recommended“and now your new book is out edge turning adversity into advantage and you can go order that right now if you're listening to me and you're a fan of the pod going order the book”
Modern Wisdom
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Innercise
Recommended“or if there is some books in a size I can't recommend it more highly like will be linked in the show notes below”
The Daily Stoic
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Philosophy as a Way of Life
Recommended“there's another book let me get it philosophy as a way of life by Pierre hadou”
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How to Think about God
Recommended“there's a recent translation of of an essay by Cicero that sort of focuses on stoicism and spirituality it's by Princeton University Press and it's called how to think about God for what to think about God or something like that but I might check that out”
