#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

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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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#348 – Nathalie Cabrol

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #348:

1. 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

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #347:

1. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil by Michael Malice
2. 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
3. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
6. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
7. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
8. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
9. The Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
10. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
11. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
12. Experiences in Russia 1931
13. 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

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#346 – Ed Calderon

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #346:

1. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
2. Shoninki: The Secret Teachings of the Ninja: The 17th-Century Manual on the Art of Concealment by Master Natori Masazumi

Ed Calderon is a security specialist who worked in the fields of counter-narcotics, organized crime investigation, and public safety in Mexico.

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#345 – Coffeezilla

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #345:

1. The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

Stephen Findeisen, better known as Coffeezilla, is an American YouTuber who uploads videos of him uncovering scams, fraudsters and fake gurus that are preying on desperate people with deceptive advertising. Wikitubia

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#344 – Noam Brown

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #344:

No books mentioned.

Noam Brown is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research working on multi-agent artificial intelligence.

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