Week 2021-W32

Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2021-W32

10 books, grouped by podcast.

Lex Fridman Podcast

Discussed Supernatural
“and graham hancock wrote a beautiful book about this called supernatural which in many ways like sent me down this rabbit hole back in 2007.”
Discussed The Cosmic Serpent
“it started with jeremy narby the cosmic serpent dna in the origins of knowledge it was a total impulse buy at the barnes noble on 6th avenue in new york and wound up introducing me to supernatural by graham hancock”
Discussed In the Dark Places of Wisdom
“uh one is in the dark places of wisdom and the other is reality”
Discussed Reality
“uh one is in the dark places of wisdom and the other is reality”
Discussed The Universal Christ
“richard rohr the franciscan friar i mentioned in the universal christ he writes a lot about how the divine for you is is often encountered in in the other”
Discussed Why Do Moths Drink Elephants' Tears?
“the following is a conversation with matt walker sleep scientist professor of neuroscience and psychology at berkeley author of why we sleep and the host of a new podcast called the matt walker podcast”
Discussed Mathematics is the Poetry of Science
“i also read a book by cedric villani uh these cedric velani is this mathematician the fields medalist and in his book he tries to explain how he got from like a phd student to the fields metal”
Discussed Galileo's for the Social and Cognitive Legitimation of Science
“um there's a a really interesting book on this topic called gaming the metrics It's a book by a researcher called mario biagioli it goes a lot into like how these the impact factor and metrics affect science negatively”

The Daily Stoic

Discussed The Inner Game of Tennis
“Have you read The Inner Game of Tennis? No, I haven't. Okay, so one, you have to read it if you like tennis, but I believe it's Tom Brady's favorite book.”
Discussed Debrief to Win
“what have been some of the books that have hit you the most? Ah, there's one I really love right now, and I don't know if you've read it; it's called Debrief to Win. No, I'm writing this down.”