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Books podcasts were talking about in February 2023
During February 2023, several podcasts engaged with notable books covering history, science, and societal polarization. On the Monday Morning Podcast, the host discussed James Bradley's 'Flyboys' while exploring World War II aviation, noting that the book centers on the stories of pilots rather than the aircraft itself. In the same episode, the host referenced John Perkins's 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' to illustrate the strategic financial entanglements of nations. Science and biology emerged on Huberman Lab, where the host and guest Oded Rechavi examined Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck's 'Zoological Philosophy' regarding the inheritance of acquired traits, alongside Arthur Koestler's book about researcher Paul Kammerer's toad experiments. Meanwhile, the Lex Fridman Podcast featured extensive discussions on modern society and politics. Lex Fridman introduced Tim Urban's upcoming release 'What's Our Problem: A Self-Help Book For Societies' and referenced Bill Bryson's 'A Walk in the Woods' to discuss how humans adapt to change. Fridman also brought up Iain M. Banks's 'Culture Series' and noted Ezra Klein's 'Why We're Polarized' as a key reference for understanding complex political landscapes.
Monday Morning Podcast
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Flyboys
Discussed“I was trying to talk about Nirvana, I'm talking about World War II aviation, which I know nothing about, I read Flyboys, that's it, it told the stories of pilots, it didn't talk about the aircraft.”
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Discussed“We don't just f*** give them the money; we're getting them in debt to us, and then they have to pay us back, and the corporations get paid and all of that f***. It's that confessions of an economic hitman f***.”
Huberman Lab
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Zoological Philosophy
Discussed“So Lamarck worked, he published his book a little more than 200 years ago. And he believed in the inheritance of acquired traits.”
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Darkness at Noon
Discussed“There's a beautiful book about him by Koestler that tells the story of what happened. There are several types of toads; some live underwater, while others live on land.”
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Jaws
Discussed“This discussion can be fairly brief because abundant data now show—and this is beautifully described in the book titled 'Jaws: A Hidden Epidemic,' written by my colleagues Paul Ehrlich and Sandra Kahn at Stanford School of Medicine.”
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Discussed“This is work by my colleague David Spiegel at Stanford Psychiatry and the great Robert Sapolsky, author of 'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.' He has a lot of popular books out there.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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What's Our Problem?
Discussed“He's the author and illustrator of the amazing blog called 'Wait But Why,' and is the author of a new book coming out tomorrow called 'What's Our Problem: A Self-Help Book For Societies.'”
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A Walk in the Woods
Discussed“I remember reading a book that talked about hiking the Appalachian Trail. You might miss those hot showers for a bit, but after a few months or years, you'd get used to it.”
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Consider Phlebas
Discussed“The dream is to have the good overpower the bad — have you ever read the Culture Series by Iain Banks? Not yet, but I get criticized daily by mutual friends for not having done so, and I feel like a lesser man as a result.”
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Why We're Polarized
Discussed“It's very complex. Ezra Klein has a great book, 'Why We're Polarized,' where he talks about a lot of this.”
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Dreams of a final theory
Discussed“So Weinberg has this book called 'Dreams of a Final Theory.' Yeah. And I had this conversation with him; I said, 'Why do you think there’s ever going to be a final theory?”
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A new kind of science
Discussed“I just don’t think, you know, he wrote a book, A New Kind of Science, basically hinting at which a lot of people offended as like, we don’t have a good way to talk about these objects.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Discussed“He has written for publications such as Colette and The Daily Telegraph, and his book, 'An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West', is a Sunday Times bestseller.”
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Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Discussed“Her recent book, 'The Case Against the Sexual Revolution,' published in 2022, notes the emergence of widespread disillusionment with sex, particularly among young men and women alike, and discusses the long-term psychological and social consequences of a life driven by hedonistic urges amid the upheaval of traditional marital concepts.”
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The Natural Order of Money
Discussed“He's recently published a book, The Natural Order of Money, which is what we're going to talk about today, trying to puzzle through just exactly what constitutes money and how it might be productively contemplated psychologically, biologically, to some degree, at least in terms of its potential biological implications, economically, sociologically, philosophically, and theologically.”
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Discussed“I remember when I was about 17, I read this book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Oh yes, wonderful book!”
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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
Discussed“There's a curious passage in the 'Optics.' I don't recall it because I read it many years ago, but it mentions how God initially formed all matter indestructibly, and there's something about gold shortly thereafter.”
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The Skeptical Environmentalist
Discussed“He faced considerable backlash early on after his book, 'The Skeptical Environmentalist,' for suggesting we ought to prioritize various important issues rather than view climate change as the singular focus.”
SmartLess
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Three Sisters
Discussed“Now, would you and Thoreau have been friends for a long time? We did a very, very sleepy production of The Three Sisters. Anton Chekhov?”
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Rhapsody in blue; piano solo
Discussed“Oh, at the Belasco, if you can get tickets, if you can get tickets, it's called Good Night, Oscar. Good Night, comma, Oscar starring, Good Night, these are our Sean Hayes.”
ChooseFI
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David and Goliath
Discussed“I totally agree. That was from 'David and Goliath' by Malcolm Gladwell.”
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The Golden Albatross: How To Determine If Your Pension Is Worth It
Discussed“and you know when we have questions about pensions and worth versus worth it you obviously think about grumpus Maximus who is a friend of the show he has written a book actually for choosify publishing called the Golden Albatross which he talks very specifically and in depth about Penn so this was the logical person to hook up with”
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Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence
Discussed“The last one I have here and this is because I literally went to Doug and Carol and pleaded with them to make this book for the fight Community was raising your money Savvy family and they released this book this past year and Brad it's on the shelf behind you as well for people it is a phenomenal book”
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Superfans
Discussed“and you uh mentioned Grant Kelly and I want to go back to um Pat Flynn so another awesome book by the way talking about super fans and how to create those from your first few customers now”
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Designed to Win: Strategies for Building a Thriving Global Business
Discussed“and you uh mentioned Grant Kelly and I want to go back to um Pat Flynn so another awesome book by the way talking about super fans and how to create those from your first few customers now”
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Discussed“we could look at chaos theory and a random walk down Wall Street”
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Kaplan MCAT Physics and Math Review
Discussed“I would have told you that back in 1999 I would have thought it's probably just like buying a you know some sort of Kaplan book or something like that and trying to go through it”
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Make Time
Discussed“so in this case 168 we had the opportunity to interview John zaraski the author of make time”
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A Time to Understand
Discussed“Huge thanks to Doug Norman the military guide and co-author of raising the money Savvy family Next Generation Financial Independence you'll see it's all tied together”
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We're Talking Millions!
Discussed“we are bringing Paul Merriman back on the show and he has a new book called we're talking Millions”
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Prove All Things and Hold (in the Church) to the Truth
Discussed“the strategies that he laid out in the ultimate Buy and Hold that he started talking about 10 15 20 years ago it's all here”
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How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable
Discussed“and it really I've wrote it for my daughter and you know I hoped it would be successful at least within the FI Community”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Huit semaines pour retrouver une bonne santé
Discussed“You don’t have to wait a year; however, I have a book called Eight Weeks to Health. There we go with a program where you start by walking for 10 minutes a day and add five minutes each week. You're quite right that a big mistake people make is trying to implement global change, and then they give up.”
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Sunshine Mind
Discussed“The new book is called The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want by Tanya Rad and Raquel Stevens. I can't wait to tell you about these two amazing humans.”
The Daily Stoic
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Enchiridion
Discussed“Actually, Epictetus talks about this. He says, 'You know, someone’s working out, they’re lifting weights.' You don’t say, 'Show me your muscles.'”
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Discussed“I still have my copy of 'Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World,' which has got to be 15 years old by now.”
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The Secret History of the Mongols
Discussed“It was the same decade that 'The Secret History of the Mongols' was first published in English, also by Harvard University.”
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Timon of Athens
Discussed“I remember discussing Shakespeare’s 'Timon of Athens' today, a work many dismiss as worthless because it doesn’t fit typical artistic criteria.”
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The Moral Arc
Discussed“When Obama left office, he supposedly spoke to some of his aides about that famous line, which I believe is in the book, about how the arc of history is long, but it bends toward truth.”
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The Woman's Hour
Discussed“That is something you talk a lot about in the book, and I'm glad you did because I loved that book, The Women's Hour, about the passing of the amendment that gives women the right to vote.”
My First Million
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How to Get Rich
Discussed“There's this guy named Felix Dennis. Have you ever read uh this awesome book called How to get rich? I love that book. Yeah I love that book. I recommend that book to everyone. It's horribly titled but it's the best book I've ever”
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Out Of Control
Discussed“and I was like and then I was like intuitively there's something more like um that Kevin Kelly thing the true fans thousand true fans where it's like uh he wrote this blog post that's amazing that's called a thousand true fans basically says if you can have if you can have a thousand true fans a true fan being”
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Bulletproof Web Design
Discussed“he goes when I first started meta lab Dan cedarholm was my hero a great opening line a great one because I don't know who this guy is and now I'm like why is this person your hero he goes this bulletproof web was the first book I read I used to reverse engineer his style sheets on simple bits”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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How to Save the West
Discussed“He is the host of The Young Heretics podcast and author of the new book out today which I highly highly recommend to you how to save the West ancient wisdom for five modern crises”
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How to Save the West
Discussed“and so I wrote this book how to save the West because I wanted people to have access to some of that stuff have ownership over this wisdom that comes down to us from Athens and Jerusalem so that we can answer some of these questions that are being raised”
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Politics
Discussed“and Aristotle who's one of the great thinkers on this topic in his politics he says there's three ways that you can organize this”
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Chasing Catastrophe
Discussed“Rick Leventhal is here he is the author of the new book Chasing catastrophe”
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How to Be a Woman in Business (While Being True to Yourself)
Discussed“this reminds me of the debate not directly between them but sort of between them between Michelle Obama and Cheryl Sandberg who is uh CEO of Facebook and Cheryl written that book lean in”
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Bob Costas
Discussed“he called his Chinese military counterpart on Trump again via Bob Woodward as well as Bob Costas book peril Millie feared Trump might launch a strike on China on October 30th 2020”
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The Blackwoods
Discussed“his name is Phil Houston he's author of the book spy the LIE which by the way you should totally buy it's available still with New York time bestseller and for very good reason there too”
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Paul Henri Bourguignon
Discussed“Ann Bremner is a trial attorney and author of the book Justice in the age of judgment from Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the battle for due process in the digital age and has been watching this trial very closely”
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Prepared Not Scared
Discussed“Bill's a former NYPD police officer and also the author of the book prepared not scared your go-to guide for staying safe in an unsafe World Guys great to have you here”
Timcast IRL
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The Wreck of the Titan Or, Futility
Discussed“You know about that book uh from the 1800s about the Titan”
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Color, Communism and Common Sense
Discussed“Immortal Legend says you should read the book color communism Common Sense by Manning Johnson”
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Non-binary and Genderqueer Genders
Discussed“sounds a lot like that book that we bring up periodically the one that's in front of you yeah genderqueer”
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Forbidden Archeology
Discussed“There's an excellent book called forbidden archeology um there's a shorter paperback version of it but it's just an analysis of about 1500 archaeological digs in which when they do carbon dating humans have been here way way longer”
Modern Wisdom
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Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, The-Holiday Ed.
Discussed“I've got here uh The Melancholy death of oyster Boy by Tim Burton which is poetry and this is from my speech Coach and he's been getting me to do poetry because it's got these sort of weird rhythms to it and um it's great”
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Beyond a Materialist Worldview
Discussed“that's just not understanding how to play the game so Ian mcgilchrist guy that wrote The Master in his Emissary fantastic really great insight um had a conversation with him and it was an interesting time last year because I was really really digging into this tension between cognition and intuition”
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Drunk
Discussed“This is also what I learned from Edward slingle and the guy that wrote Drunk he's saying that switching off your uh PFC your prefrontal cortex is actually one of the best things that you can do for creativity”
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Don't Trust Your Gut
Discussed“um I think that another start which I picked up last year from Seth Stevens dividowitz's book don't trust your gut is a man who works in hospitality and earns three hundred thousand dollars a year is the same level of attractiveness As A Firefighter or a lawyer that earns sixty thousand dollars a year”
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Human Compatible
Discussed“the thing that I learned from Stuart Russell guy that wrote human compatible he's also like it's the textbook when it comes to computer science I think he's Mr algorithms and he wrote a book called human compatible which is trying to reverse engineer algorithms to be more uh Pro human”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations 1953-1961, Died 18 September 1961
Discussed“and while he is in that position working full time he is also writing his uh economics thesis for his Doctorate at Stockholm universe diversity the English title of his thesis is the spread of the business cycle”
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Spies in the Congo
Discussed“so there's a book that comes out this awesome book by an academic named Susan Williams called who killed hammersholt and this seems to be the thing that actually triggers a reinvestigation”
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When Prophecy Fails
Discussed“and uh this was so interesting to these scientists who conducted this that they wrote a book about it uh back in 1957 I think called when prophecy fails and they summed it up like this but we've said it before but they were in the trenches on the research they said quote a man with conviction is a hard”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Tamara de Lempicka
Discussed“And then, you know, met this woman who I talk about in the book called Tamara de Lempicka, who is, you know, one of the most famous Cubist painters. So, you know, a lot of these things happened because I was willing, you know, to do things that, you know, I mean, I lived in Monaco; driving people around might”
Pod Save America
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New Mindset, New Results
Discussed“check out noom's first ever book a new mindset a deep dive into the psychology of behavior change available to buy now wherever books are sold”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Your inner fish
Discussed“He's made breakthrough fossil discoveries, like finding the missing link between fish and land animals, now known as Tiktaalik, and is a leading popularizer of science through his best-selling books, Your Inner Fish, The Universe Within, and Some Assembly Required.”
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The universe within
Discussed“He's made breakthrough fossil discoveries, like finding the missing link between fish and land animals, now known as Tiktaalik, and is a leading popularizer of science through his best-selling books, Your Inner Fish, The Universe Within, and Some Assembly Required.”
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Some Assembly Required
Discussed“He's made breakthrough fossil discoveries, like finding the missing link between fish and land animals, now known as Tiktaalik, and is a leading popularizer of science through his best-selling books, Your Inner Fish, The Universe Within, and Some Assembly Required.”
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Animal species and evolution
Discussed“And Mayr was one of the architects of this, so he was just like a god — and I ran into him once in the hallway, and I was reading his great tome Animal Species and Evolution, which is an 800-page book on how new species form, which was very influential in the field.”
Stuff You Should Know
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Bittersweet [by] C.H. Gervais
Discussed“I don't think they were still using Gervais markham's book”
Freakonomics Radio
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Human Development Report 1994
Discussed“When she worked at the UN, Rayworth was a co-author of the Human Development Report, whose Human Development Index measures countries not by economic power, but by factors like standard of living, education, and life expectancy.”
StarTalk Radio
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Venus revealed
Discussed“So that book was called 'Venus Revealed.' There you go, okay.”
