A Brief History of Time

This book by Stephen Hawking has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-03-31 and the most recent from 2022-01-21. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

Stephen Hawking's ‘A Brief History of Time has become an international publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over ten million copies worldwide and lives on as a science book that continues to captivate and inspire new readers each year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening twenty years there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and macro-cosmic world. Indeed, during that time cosmology and the theoretical sciences have entered a new golden age .