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Animal Farm
George Orwell (inferred)
“probably my favorite book”
“it comes from animal farm by uh my probably my favorite book yeah so you remember benjamin the donkey”— guest
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Losing the Nobel Prize
Brian Keating
“experimental physicist at ussd and author of losing the nobel prize and into the impossible”— Lex Fridman
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Into the Impossible
Brian Keating
“author of losing the nobel prize and into the impossible plus he's a host of the amazing podcast of the same name”— Lex Fridman
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The First Three Minutes
Steven Weinberg
“going backwards from the first three minutes as famous stephen weinberg titled his book we actually marks a point where ignorance takes over”— guest
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Annie Hall
Woody Allen (inferred)
“he made a movie called annie hall in which as a self-depiction he's like a larry david before larry david was larry david neurotic typical neurotic young jew”— guest
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March of the Penguins
Luc Jacquet (inferred)
“this is where i learned about this from march of the penguins when the penguins huddle together they uh the body temperature arrives to the same place”— guest
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Principles
Ray Dalio
“there's a good rule ray dalio writes about in principles he says an expert is someone who's done something three times successfully”— guest
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo Galilei
“i'm actually producing along with jim gates fabiola giannatti frank wilczyk the first ever audiobook of one of galileo's dialogue”— guest
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The Assayer
Galileo Galilei
“then a third book is called the assayer so what is an assay so assayers were kind of like these alchemists”— guest
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The Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass
Galileo Galilei
“one of which is called the military compass and this is an interesting book for my blockchain and your blockchain aficionados”— guest
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The God Equation
Michio Kaku
“that's the title of kaku's book the god particle the god equation”— guest
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The Big Bang Theory
CBS (inferred)
“the lightest elements on the periodic table occurred in a time period shorter than the tv show the big bang theory”— guest
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Fortnite
Epic Games (inferred)
“i mean some of them want to play fortnite you know like professional fortnite play which there are”— guest
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Contact
Robert Zemeckis (inferred)
“a press conference held by bill clinton on the white house lawn that's featured in the movie contact um repurposed for that movie”— guest
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