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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein
“it was so brilliant ... i just savored you know every page of that”
“his widow released the uncensored unedited version of stranger in the strange land it's like three times larger and like no holds barred i just savored”— Martine Rothblatt
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Time Enough for Love
Robert Heinlein
“my favorite book of all of his is time enough for love”
“my favorite book of all of his is time enough for love in which he covers almost every topic under the sun”— Martine Rothblatt
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Cosmos
Carl Sagan (inferred)
“i watched the cosmos series over and over again and carl sagan was a genius”
“carl sagan was like an amazing amazing role model to me i watched the cosmos series over and over again and carl sagan was a genius”— Martine Rothblatt
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn
“one of my favorites is a book by a historian of science named thomas kewan”
“one of my favorites is a book by a historian of science named thomas kewan ... his book ... it's called the structure of scientific revolutions”— Martine Rothblatt
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler
“another science fiction writer who i feel does such a great job of explaining concepts that can inspire people is octavia butler”
“octavia butler ... one of them very well known as parable of the sower parable of the talents and in these books she gives people an appreciation of questioning authority”— Martine Rothblatt
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Parable of the Talents
Octavia Butler
“another science fiction writer who i feel does such a great job of explaining concepts that can inspire people is octavia butler”
“one of them very well known as parable of the sower parable of the talents and in these books she gives people an appreciation of questioning authority”— Martine Rothblatt
ProductRecommended
Scientific American
Scientific American (inferred)
“subscribe to scientific american ... two of like you know the greatest ways for lay people to learn”
“subscribe to scientific american ... i find scientific american and national geographic two of like you know the greatest ways for lay people”— Martine Rothblatt
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National Geographic
National Geographic (inferred)
“two of like you know the greatest ways for lay people to learn about all different types of signs”
“i find scientific american and national geographic two of like you know the greatest ways for lay people which i do consider myself a lay person to learn”— Martine Rothblatt
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The Emotion Machine
Marvin Minsky
“a great book that i would recommend that goes into this subject in beautiful detail is called the emotion machine”
“a great book that i would recommend that goes into this subject in beautiful detail is called the emotion machine by marvin minsky”— Martine Rothblatt
The guest's own work
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The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss
“i recommended it in fact in the 4-hour body this is more than 10 years ago and i did not get paid to do so”— Tim Ferriss
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Virtually Human
Martine Rothblatt
“that's the subject of my book virtually human that whole book is talks about how and when will society accept digital consciousness”— Martine Rothblatt
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Really Are
Alan Watts
“you are a fan of alan watts and specifically the book subtitle on the taboo against knowing who you really are”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced
Her
Spike Jonze (inferred)
“the film of a few years ago her in which like uh i do yep so i was watching that movie”— Martine Rothblatt
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Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker (inferred)
“i don't know if you have watched the series black mirror before but i find some other episodes to be very strong”— Tim Ferriss
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Upload
Greg Daniels (inferred)
“there are a few other somewhat similar um series that are streaming now upload and whatnot so it's a it's an idea that's catching on”— Martine Rothblatt
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SiriusXM
SiriusXM (inferred)
“i thought about it like like i was getting subscribers at siriusxm you know people said to me oh martin you'll be lucky to have a hundred thousand subscribers”— Martine Rothblatt
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Tesla
Tesla (inferred)
“i've felt like the same kind of feeling when i was driving one of the first teslas and i was looking at the manual and i saw how much electrical power it output”— Martine Rothblatt
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NeuroSky EEG headset
NeuroSky (inferred)
“i was given a um a christmas present ... one of these neural sky headsets that lets you kind of like play a game just with your thoughts by controlling your eeg signals”— Martine Rothblatt
MediaReferenced
Alive Inside
Michael Rossato-Bennett (inferred)
“was recently re-watching segments of a documentary i saw called alive inside and the subtitle is a story of music and memory”— Tim Ferriss
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Yamaha Music Program
Yamaha (inferred)
“all of the kids were in the yamaha music program where they learned piano and violin instruments like that and we would practice songs”— Martine Rothblatt
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Neuralink
Elon Musk (inferred)
“people like elon musk has formed a whole company neurolink where he's working on downloading a human a whole human brain”— Martine Rothblatt
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