#356 – Tim Dodd

02 Feb 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #356:

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

28 Jan 2023

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

25 Jan 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #354:

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

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Other appearances: #180

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#353 – Dennis Whyte

21 Jan 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #353:

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

17 Jan 2023

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #352:

The Qur’an
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

11 Jan 2023

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

29 Dec 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #350:

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

22 Dec 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #349:

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernard Sanders
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara
The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
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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#348 – Nathalie Cabrol

19 Dec 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #348:

Lakes on Mars by Nathalie A. Cabrol, Edmond A. Grin

Nathalie A. Cabrol is a French American astrobiologist specializing in planetary science. Cabrol studies ancient lakes on Mars, and undertakes high-altitude scientific expeditions in the Central Andes of Chile as the principal investigator of the “High Lakes Project” funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Wikipedia

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#347 – Michael Malice

15 Dec 2022

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #347:

The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil by Michael Malice
The Anarchist Handbook by Michael Malice, Murray Rothbard, Max Stirner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, David Friedman, Peter Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, Lysander Spooner, Emma Goldman, Louis Lingg
Fig ht Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Experiences in Russia 1931
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen

Michael Krechmer, better known as Michael Malice, is a Ukrainian-American author, and podcaster. He is the host of “YOUR WELCOME”, a video podcast which airs on Podcast One. Malice’s early life was the subject of Harvey Pekar’s 2006 biography Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #128, #150, #178, #200, #253, #402

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