#468 - Janna Levin

05 May 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #468:

1. How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin
2. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
3. Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
4. Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
5. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
6. The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Leon Lederman, Dick Teresi
7. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Never Let Me G by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
10. Animal Farm by George Orwell
11. Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
12. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Janna J. Levin is an American theoretical cosmologist and a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in astronomy and physics with a concentration in philosophy at Barnard College in 1988 and a PhD in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. Wikipedia

• https://x.com/JannaLevin
• https://www.instagram.com/jannalevin/
• https://www.facebook.com/jannalevinastro/

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