Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W22

“Um there's a there was someone named um Shiva Dal that collected a bunch of these stories in a book called Folktales of Sherpa and Yeti and all of them kind of figured the same way which was uh whether it's a story called the annihilation of the Yeti.”

“Uh people like Reinhold Messner and uh one Sir Edmund Hillary both searched for evidence of the Yeti while they were hiking. Uh and Messner even wrote a book called My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas's Deepest Mystery, right?”

“Sykes is like a a a leading expert on um analyzing mitochondrial DNA. Wrote the book The Seven Daughters of Eve, which kind of introduced the world to genetic analysis through M MTDNA.”

“There's a great book uh this guy wrote called the half-life of facts.”

“look at this editor's pick. The secret history of Tiger Woods. Said the death of his father set a battle raging inside the world's greatest golfer. Dish. Dish. How the [ __ ] do you know? Why? Cuz you talked to his gardener. Is that the closest you could get to him? And now you're going to write 400 pages”

“But if if I gave only that message then there'd be no point in write writing the book rise above um because we also have an agency as you said to compensate to do what we need to not you know what what's it going to do to help you to say oh I have the genes for shortness I'm”

“But there seems to have been a cultural shift among youth where um and Gene Twangi has has done a great analysis of this in her book generations. prior generation.”

“Like if you were to look up if you were to go to some bookstore, there's there's a popular one called The Sons of Coronado. And it's like this legacy of people looking for Spanish gold. Somewhere in there, my family will will be in there.”

“I was reading uh yesterday I was reading uh uh exploration faucet. Have you ever read this before? Listen to the audio book. It it's his Percy Percy Faucets personal diary.”

“I've watched a lot of Dr. Mindy's interviews and docu and and I've read her book and you know the power behind fasting in itself.”

“A good book, a good novel to think of this all through is the is the book June I think which offers a really interesting prism. On the one hand, you have hyper advanced technologies accompanying effectively a quasi feudal political order and you know we always presume that technological advance will go hand in hand with you know social”

“I happen to have a copy right here on my desk. Oh. Oh, really? That's great. Yeah, I've got one over on the shelf over here. So this is this is a very classic book where um the author had you imagine a world that's just two-dimensional.”