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Every book David Kipping recommended on podcasts
Across 3 podcasts. Every show David Kipping appears on, in one place — not just one.
David Mathew Kipping is a British astronomer and associate professor at Columbia University, where he leads the Cool Worlds Lab. During his appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Kipping mentioned Jonathan Haidt's book The Coddling of the American Mind while discussing the rising rates of self-harm, suicidal ideation, and anxiety among young people due to social media use. Later, when appearing on Modern Wisdom, Kipping brought up the video game Mass Effect 2 to illustrate how popular media handles theoretical concepts like quantum communicators, and he mentioned having read the first couple of books in Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem series when discussing the television adaptation. In the same Modern Wisdom interview, he compared the actors and style of The Three-Body Problem show to George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Furthermore, during an appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast, Kipping referenced StarWars to explain the astrophysical concept of planets orbiting binary star systems.
Books recommended by David Kipping
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A Game of Thrones
A Game of Thrones by George R.
Discussed“actually I thought I like all the actors from the game because it's kind of the Game of Thrones M version two or something right just put into like the modern world or something with aliens”
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Mass effect 2
Discussed“it's a shame because in you know I think there's a game Mass Effect 2 which has a Quantum Communicator in it”
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Star Wars - From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
Discussed“of course this is very famous from Star Wars Tatooine in Star Wars there's a binary star system and you have Luke Skywalker looking at the sunset and seeing two stars come down”
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The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt explores how well-intentioned ideas and bad pedagogical approaches are setting a generation up for failure, with a strong focus on the mental health impacts of social media.
Discussed“Because just just social media, you know, we talked about this the other day, the Jonathan hates book, The Coddling of the American Mind, that shows self harm, particularly among girls, p the suicidal ideiation, all the different things that happened to them, anxiety and depression, all rises with the invention of social media.”
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The Three-Body Problem
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu is a sweeping hard science fiction trilogy starter that chronicles humanity's first contact with an alien civilization facing imminent destruction from a triple-star system.
Discussed“did you get to watch the three body problem yeah I did and d read the couple of the first couple of books and I thought the show was really intriguing”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| #2363 - David Kipping | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2025-08-09 | 1 |
| The 3 Body Problem, Aliens & How The World Ends - Dr David Kipping | Modern Wisdom | 2024-07-11 | 3 |
| #355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2023-01-28 | 1 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and going to be called the hit hackers guy to the Galaxy or could be that's a good name for it we've we've been toying a little bit with name”