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Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #247

Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #247

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommendedISBN verified

Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

Matt Ridley and Alina Chan

“excellent book that people should read”
“so there's this excellent book that people should read uh called viral the search for the origin of covid-19 Matt Ridley and Alina Chan”— Lex Fridman
ProductRecommended

Iron Strength (functional strength training program)

Jordan Metzl

“I'll do a plug for my brother Jordan Metzel”
“I'll do a plug for my brother Jordan Metzel he's a doctor at hospital for special surgery but his whole thing is functional strength”— Jamie Metzl

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

Jamie Metzl

“my book hacking Darwin is about the future of human genetic engineering and his work on the Human Genome Project”— Jamie Metzl
BookBy the guest

Genesis Code

Jamie Metzl

“I wrote about that in my my two science fiction novels Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata years ago especially with Genesis Code”— Jamie Metzl
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Eternal Sonata

Jamie Metzl

“I wrote about that in my my two science fiction novels Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata years ago”— Jamie Metzl

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferenced

The Long Game

Rush Doshi

“there's a great book called The Long game by Rush Doshi who's actually now working in the in the White House about this goal”— Jamie Metzl
BookReferenced

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

“there's a wonderful full book called Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and he even talks about a city as something like this”— Jamie Metzl
BookReferencedISBN verified

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler (inferred)

“it's the same reason how I'm reading mineconf now it's like you have to you have to really understand the minds of people”— Lex Fridman
MediaReferenced

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz (inferred)

“of all the Gin joints and all the towns in all the world the quote from from Casablanca”— Jamie Metzl
MediaReferenced

Good Will Hunting

Gus Van Sant (inferred)

“it's the uh Goodwill Hunting that's the good stuff the flaws the the weird quirks of humans that's what makes us who we are”— Lex Fridman