Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W48

“Like there was a time when people bought Julia Child's cookbook and made coq au vin for the first time. Oh my gosh, this is how French people eat chicken, it's amazing!”

“The term was popularized by journalist Amanda Ripley in her 2021 book High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out.”

“I'm familiar with the work; Better Angels of Our Nature, which I think preceded Enlightenment Now, right?”

“Prer was following in the footsteps of many other Americans who learned to read late in life, including the famous George Dawson, the grandson of a formerly enslaved person who learned to read at 98 and co-authored a book at 101.”

“But the story is, he and another doctor he worked with, Dr. Rosen, wrote a series of books called the 'You' series, like 'You: The Owner's Manual', 'You on a Diet', 'You Being Beautiful', and they would come in and shoot videos for them.”

“It was called a 'Straight Yankee in Texas' and they used the phrase 'kangaroo court', but they also used the phrase 'Mustang Court' and they spelled it differently.”

“It just came out, but Neil Stevenson has a new book called Polan, which I'm very excited to read, Polan.”

“Today, I had the opportunity to talk to Mark Changizi, who is the author of the book 'Expressly Human' and several other titles. I wanted to talk to Mark for two reasons: first, because we share an interest in evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, particularly with respect to perception, emotion, language, and mass group behavior.”

“And then we end that course with a contemporary version of conservatism, Roger Scruton's 'Meaning of Conservatism,' which came out a few years before he died.”

“But there was a guy named Scott Maruna, who was a high school chemistry professor and grew up in Charleston, about 12 miles away from Mattoon. He decided to go to Mattoon a few years back and talked to some locals and put together a book about the subject: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon.”

“This is based on some work that I will provide a reference for, which was published in the journal Science. Matt Walker also discusses studies done by others in his book Why We Sleep.”

“We discussed everything from his position on vaccines and censorship to the claims he makes in his latest book, 'The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.'”

“Alright, back to the conversation, and I have another book about to come out called "Wuhan Coverup," which shows how Dr. Fouchy, along with others from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the CIA through USAID, was pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into developing pandemic superbugs that could cause pandemics, keeping them in areas where they knew they were”

“And if you read, you know, I read Elon Musk’s autobiography from last year, this is what he does I mean he—the reason why we know who Elon Musk is is because he's taken this approach to every company he's ever worked at to great success”

“Ryan writes about this in his book as a very organic, genuinely bottom-up way.”

“So I was reading Emily Wilson's book, The Case Against Socrates, which I thought was interesting because she famously has this biography of Seneca, and they're both pretty negative.”

“It was interesting to read a kind of Steelman case against Socrates, which is what I felt she was doing there in Stone's book, The Trial of Socrates, or something like that.”

“Yes, yeah, I read something similar to what you're saying in terms of how to give proper feedback, and it was in a book called The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, and he talks about a three-step method.”