Week 2023-W15
Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W15
13 books, grouped by podcast.
Lex Fridman Podcast
Discussed My Ántonia
“Okay, I just want to snapshot that quote and put it on my LinkedIn and the back of my book. When is your autobiography coming out?”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Discussed A Brief History of Time
“So, I think when I read Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time, which is going to be 20 years ago, or approximately. Oh, it's almost 40 years old!”
Discussed Lost in TransNation
“It's called 'Lost in Transnation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness.' So 'out of the madness'?”
Discussed The Firm
“So what happened with the twins is that after decades, in fact, John Money wrote a book in 1997 in which he claimed that his twin study confirmed and supported the results of his experiment.”
Discussed The mind has mountains
“He wrote about this in a great book, Dr. Paul McHugh's book called 'The Mind Has Mountains.'”
Discussed As Nature Made Him
“Unfortunately, when it did become public knowledge–and a book was written by John Colapinto called 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl'–it told the entire story from A to Z.”
Discussed Unprotected
“Years ago when I worked at UCLA, my first book, ‘Unprotected,’ came out in 2008, where I challenged the political correctness in the student health clinic.”
Behind the Bastards
Discussed A Quiet Flame
“There's a series of detective books that I read from time to time, the Bernie Gunther books, which are about a detective who is not a Nazi but is first in the Weimar State and then in the Nazi State.”
Discussed Mengele
“Yeah, I'm gonna quote now from Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death.”
StarTalk Radio
Discussed The jazz of physics
“Among your books, the one I remember most is from now six or seven years ago: The Jazz of Physics. Let me get the right subtitle here: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe.”
Discussed Fear of a Black Universe
“Then you followed that up with Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics. So you're still at it, but you're also a jazz saxophonist, so you're out of control here, it seems.”
SmartLess
Discussed The Outsiders
“You started in and I mentioned sort of the brat pack, but you started in, was The Outsiders your first big film? It was my first movie, period!”
Discussed The Hotel New Hampshire
“Wow, wasn't that a John Irving book? I remember when that came out.”