Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W16

“You're the founder and director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative and author of 'Into the Anthropocosmos.' One word there, whoa!”

“And now let me leave you some words from Bill Bryson in his book, "A Short History of Nearly Everything."”

“About the topics as well, we recently had a schoolteacher present on teaching immigrants with a book called 'Making Americans.' We had a presidential advisor to four presidents discuss changing US politics.”

“In Marvin Minsky's 'The Society of Mind,' he truly thinks of the human brain as a society of different kinds of capabilities.”

“One of the books that I reprogrammed my brain with at night was called 'Ego Is the Enemy.' 'Ego Is the Enemy.'”

“One of the things that the authors of The Bell Curve pointed out—Richard Hernstein, one of the authors—was that in the typical Ivy League environment, the typical Ivy League inhabitant never meets anybody in the lower half of the cognitive ability distribution.”

“He had just written a book at that time called 'The Case Against Sugar.'”

“Prior to that, he had written 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' and 'Why We Get Fat.'”

“Prior to that, he had written 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' and 'Why We Get Fat.'”

“If I ask you to give the answer to the title of this one book of yours, "Why We Curse," why do we? How answerable is that question?”

“Moore is the author of a book called Holy [ __ ]. A Brief History of Swearing.”

“Question: you've got this kind of euphemism treadmill that Stephen Pinker talks about where it starts off as a bad word, but then people use it more and more, and then you get used to it, and then it falls away, and then you need to come up with another bad word.”

“I think Michael Landon stays up with the kid who's on opium and sweats it out. It's like Basketball Diaries level. It really is, in the middle of whatever the hell else used to happen on that show, cook and stew or whatever in Walnut Grove.”

“Her new book is out now; it's called Paris: The Memoir.”