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Michio Kaku's book recommendations
Key facts
- Michio Kaku has recommended or discussed 6 books on podcasts, as of May 2, 2023.
- Michio Kaku has talked about books on 3 podcasts, as of May 2, 2023.
- Those books came up in 4 episodes, as of May 2, 2023.
- The 3 books Michio Kaku has mentioned in the most episodes, as of May 2, 2023: Chaos, Brave New World and Flatland.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Michio Kaku aired on May 2, 2023.
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Across 3 podcasts. Every show Michio Kaku appears on, in one place — not just one.
Michio Kaku’s most recommended books
- Chaos by Tom O'Neill
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Relativity by Albert Einstein
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film. He is also a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets. For his efforts to bridge science and science fiction, he is a 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Awardee. On podcast appearances, Kaku discussed several notable books. He mentioned Tom O'Neill's Chaos in relation to the 1960s and the Charles Manson murders, referenced Douglas Adams's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe to make a humorous point about supercomputers, brought up Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to illustrate genetic control, and discussed Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland to explain higher dimensions.
Books recommended by Michio Kaku
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Chaos
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill is a deeply researched investigative book that explores hidden government programs, mind control experiments, and unanswered questions surrounding the Manson family murders.
Recommended“there's a fascinating book called chaos uh written by a guy named Tom O'Neil who wrote about the uh 1960s and the Charles Manson Murders”
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Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic dystopian science fiction novel that depicts a technologically advanced future society controlled through engineered reproduction, psychological conditioning, and constant superficial pleasure.
Discussed“see this is n this is the Brave New World by aldus Huxley right In that Society they deliberately reduce the oxygen on embryos”
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Flatland
Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott is a satirical novella that uses the adventures of a square in a two-dimensional world to explore the concepts of dimensions and perspective.
Discussed“the original flatland book when i read that i really really enjoyed it it feels a little bit like plato's allegory of the cave you know where you have the heretics you have this unknown banished insight about the world that's not supposed to be it's not supposed to be seen”
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Relativity
Relativity by Albert Einstein encompasses foundational physics texts detailing the special and general theories of relativity that revolutionized our understanding of space, time, and gravity.
Discussed“and then over the years I found out the guy had a name Albert Einstein And that book was the theory of everything It was unfinished”
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Discussed“remember that novel uh the restaurant at the end of the Galaxy um what happened in that novel was the aliens of the future created a supercomputer to calculate The Theory of Everything the ultimate Theory so the computer it chugged and chugged and spit out the answer and the answer was the meaning of the universe was 42.”
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The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds by H.
Discussed“I mean in war the world's by hto wells the aliens did not hate us”
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Books by Michio Kaku
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Physics of the Impossible
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The Future of Humanity
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Quantum Supremacy
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Beyond Einstein
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Visions
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Einstein's Cosmos
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Parallel Worlds
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The God Equation
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Quantum Field Theory
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Hyperspace
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Physics of the Future
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Nuclear Power
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To win a nuclear war
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The Future of the Mind
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Introduction to superstrings
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Quarks, Symmetries and Strings
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020
Appearances
Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
“well that was the subject of my previous book The God equation where we try to find one theory that allows us to calculate everything starting with the big bang then the creation of galaxies and stars planets finally the creation of Life photosynthesis and here we are talking about this on on a podcast so yeah we're talking about”
“well that was the subject of my previous book The God equation where we try to find one theory that allows us to calculate everything starting with the big bang then the creation of galaxies and stars planets finally the creation of Life photosynthesis and here we are talking about this on on a podcast so yeah we're talking about”
“so yeah we're talking about one equation which I call the god equation which I write about in my book The God equation”
“so that's why I decided to write this book Quantum Supremacy because it may eventually take a quantum computer to calculate with what is called string theory”
“well I wrote a book called the future of the Mind where I tried to give a definition of Consciousness and where we fit in the larger scheme of things”
“yeah the book is called Quantum Supremacy now what is that Quantum Supremacy is a time when quantum computers exceeded the power of a supercomputer on certain very specified problems”
“This gets us into the connectone project uh which I mentioned in my book the future of the Mind”
“which I mentioned in my book the future of the Mind the connectone project is to locate the connections of every single neuron in your brain”
“and my latest book is called the god equation the Quest for a theory of everything and that is it available in audio form as well”
“well i wrote a book uh which is also a new york times bestseller the future of the mind and i had to look at the evolution of the brain”
“i wrote a book called physics of the impossible where i divided these predictions into at least three types”
“my latest book the guide equation has a lot of these things in readable form hopefully in a way that even kids can understand”
“already we can be core memories I have a book the future of the mind or I detail some of these breakthroughs”
“and in my book future of humanity I even speculate beyond that that by the end of the century we'll probably have the first starships”