Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W22

“Anyway, two of them got together and wrote this book, and it is on neuro-economics, but it's actually called 'Cool: How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World.' And what Quartz's research and other neuroscientists' research show is that we have a basic human need for status and to be respected.”

“Yeah, because we’re f*cked up like Lenny from ‘Of Mice and Men’! You could do that to a puppy! Two puncture wounds to the neck before passing out, recall said, ‘Leave Monty alone; bring him back to his brother and sister; let him be happy.’”

“Man, I had Eddie — here's the funny thing: I had Eddie Bravo's Mastering the Rubber Guard book that came to me at a very influential time where I read the chapter about weed. I was like, [__], maybe I should start smoking weed, you know?”

“It has one illustration, which was a diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum, literally cut out of an actual science textbook and taped badly inside the thesis.”

“To describe what happened next, I want to read a quote from a book by Professor Samuel Brunson called God and the IRS, which is about the difficulty the IRS has dealing with the religious right.”

“Yeah, let's, well you know what we get to do now in our typical two-episode procession, the way that is Stuff You Should Know, is we get to wash the stank of Unit 731 off of us by talking about a very fun thing, which is the Guinness Book of World Records, or the Guinness World Records. I feel like”

“In the defense of my cousin Michael Skakel, I did do a book on that and tracked down the people who were actually responsible for the murder, releasing my cousin from prison. I just wanted to mention that again, though questions linger and I want to be fair.”

“I read books that pushed me to think about some of these issues, like 'The New Jim Crow' by Michelle Alexander and others that created a sense of urgency around ensuring our kids received better schools and that our justice system was reformed to facilitate decarceration.”

“But what I find amazing about the rabies virus—and there's a great book by the way called 'Rabid,' which is essentially a history of the study of rabies—is that once it travels from the site of the bite up to the brain, what does it do?”

“I once read a very elegant paper by Walter Cannon, a foundational figure in physiology. Cannon was the chair of physiology at Harvard in the 1920s and 1930s and authored 'The Wisdom of the Body.'”

“In our research, we referenced some beautiful passages from the book 'Memoirs of My Stomach,' written by a French author in 1853, highlighting the gut-brain dialogue.”

“I got that quote from a book that I've been reading called The Daily Stoic, and that book has been very helpful for me.”