Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W09

“So a really disruptive paper, like Watson and Crick's seminal work that showed that DNA was in the form of a double helix, is really disruptive because all the models people proposed before them suddenly become irrelevant, and nobody will cite those papers anymore—so that's really disruptive research.”

“I’m dying up here to be the man, you gotta beat the man! The Ric Flair autobiography! When Giants Walk the Earth Rocks!”

“The Beastie Boy book! Texas Flood, the Stevie Ray Vaughan story! Um, Bill Walsh, Finding The Winning Edge!”

“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.”

“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***.”

“It's Pilgrim's Progress; it's the hero going out looking for the Grail, fighting dragons and monsters, and then you realize when you get to the end it wasn't about the Grail at all.”

“Dive deep into scripture and the second most read Christian book of all time, the imitation of Christ. You'll learn how to become a better individual through prayer, fasting, and giving in spite of today's broken world.”

“They're telling very small lies, just like in the Dragon book. You can catch them, because otherwise the system will correct itself.”

“So Lamarck worked, he published his book a little more than 200 years ago. And he believed in the inheritance of acquired traits.”

“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.”