#358 – Aella

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #358:

  1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  2. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
  3. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  4. Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It by Paul Conti
  5. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  6. Books by Mercedes Lackey
  7. Books by E. E. Knight
  8. Books by Ursula K. Le Guin

Aella is a sex researcher, writer, and sex worker.


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#357 – Paul Conti

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #357:

  1. Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It by Paul Conti
  2. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  3. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
  4. The First Man by Albert Camus

Paul Conti is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his training at Stanford and Harvard, where he served as Chief Resident. Dr. Conti is the author of Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, a book that brings his valuable.


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#356 – Tim Dodd

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #356:

  1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Tim Dodd, also known as Everyday Astronaut, is an American science communicator, YouTube content creator, photographer, and musician. Wikipedia


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#355 – David Kipping

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #355:

No books mentioned.

David Kipping is an astronomer at Columbia University, director of the Cool Worlds Lab, and host of the Cool Worlds YouTube channel.


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#354 – Jeremi Suri

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #354:

  1. Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy by Jeremi Suri
  2. Henry Kissinger and the American Century by Jeremi Suri
  3. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  4. 1984 by George Orwell

Jeremi Suri is an American historian, and the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, at University of Texas at Austin. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #180


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#353 – Dennis Whyte

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #353:

  1. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Dennis Whyte is the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at MIT, a professor in the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and the Director of the MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center.


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#352 – Omar Suleiman

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #352:

  1. The Qur’an
  2. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, Attallah Shabazz

Omar Suleiman is an American Muslim scholar, civil rights leader, writer, and public speaker. He is the Founder and President of Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, and an Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies and member of the Ethics Center Advisory Board at Southern Methodist University. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #411


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#351 – MrBeast

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #351:

No books mentioned.

Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber. He is credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that centers on expensive stunts. Wikipedia


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#350 – Betül Kaçar

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #350:

  1. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Betül Kacar is a Turkish-American astrobiologist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin. She directs a NASA Astrobiology Research Center exploring the essential attributes of life, its origins and how they should shape our notions of habitability and the search for life on other worlds. Wikipedia


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#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #349:

  1. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
  2. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  3. The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
  4. Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernard Sanders
  5. The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara
  6. The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
  7. The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
  8. The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
  9. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm

Bhaskar Sunkara is an American political writer. He is the founding editor of Jacobin, the president of The Nation, and publisher of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and London’s Tribune. Wikipedia


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