#273 – Chris Blattman

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #273:

  1. Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman

Christopher Blattman is a Canadian-American economist and political scientist working on conflict, crime, and international development. Wikipedia


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#272 – Brett Johnson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #272:

  1. Holy Bible, King James Version

Brett Johnson was a US Most Wanted cybercriminal, called the Original Internet Godfather by US Secret Service for building the first organized cybercrime community called ShadowCrew, which was the precursor to today’s darknet and darknet markets.


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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #271:

  1. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
  2. Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
  3. The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots by Kate Darling
  4. Into the Anthropocosmos: A Whole Space Catalog from the MIT Space Exploration Initiative by Ariel Ekblaw
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#270 – David Wolpe

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #270:

  1. The Torah
  2. Why Faith Matters by David J. Wolpe
  3. The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman
  4. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
  5. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  6. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Herzog by Saul Bellow
  8. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  9. The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  10. Books by Bertrand Russell
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#269 – Lee Cronin

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #269:

No books mentioned.

Lee Cronin is a chemist at the University of Glasgow.


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#268 – Robert Proctor

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #268:

  1. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis by Robert N. Proctor
  2. The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor
  3. Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance by Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger
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#267 – Mark Zuckerberg

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #267:

No books mentioned.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American business magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the executive chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #383, #398


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#266 – Nicole Perlroth

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #266:

  1. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
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#265 – Devon Larratt

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #265:

No books mentioned.

Devon Larratt is a Canadian professional armwrestler, content creator, and a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces. Devon Larratt is widely considered to be one of the best arm wrestlers of all time, and is arguably the #1 ranked arm-wrestler in North America. Wikipedia


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#264 – Tim Urban

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #264:

  1. How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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