Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
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Italo Calvino
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This book by Italo Calvino 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: David Eagleman, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-08-26 and the most recent from 2023-05-27. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is an extraordinary book about Marco Polo talking to the Great Khan, Kublai Khan, about different cities”— David Eagleman
The guest here is David Eagleman: Neuroscientist, Stanford professor, New York Times bestselling author (Sum, Incognito, Livewired), TED speaker, and founder of the neurotech company Neosensory. Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains sensory augmentation, why we dream, consciousness, memory, and his Lazy Susan method for managing many projects.
“italo calvina i would actually recommend invisible cities i just i loved that book by italo calvino sorry it's a book of fiction”— guest
The guest here is David Eagleman: Neuroscientist, Stanford professor, and bestselling science communicator known for popularizing brain research. He runs Neosensory, a company building sensory-substitution wearables, and authored Livewired and Incognito. Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains why the brain is not hardware plus software but a constantly self-rewiring 'livewired' system.
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