Book · recommended on 3 episodes
Longitude
Dava Sobel ISBN 9780802799678
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Dava Sobel ISBN 9780802799678
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This book by Dava Sobel has come up 3 times across 2 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Andrew Huberman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-07-14 and the most recent from 2025-01-20. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution.
“an important book for anyone to read who's interested in basically why we're still here um in my opinion is the book longitude”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Dr. Brian Keating: Professor of cosmology at UC San Diego who built telescopes at the South Pole to study the cosmic microwave background. He led the BICEP experiment, made a headline 2014 'discovery' of the universe's origin that was later retracted, and wrote 'Losing the Nobel Prize.'. Cosmologist Brian Keating takes Huberman on the most zoomed-out tour of the podcast: telescopes, time, the Big Bang, and a lost Nobel Prize.
“one of the books was the book longitude which is a wonderful story about discovery of timekeeping devices at sea”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Robert Greene: Bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, The Art of Seduction, and Mastery. Trained at UC Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison; writes about psychology, strategy, and human nature rooted in history. Robert Greene gives Andrew Huberman a process for finding your unique purpose, on power, seduction, love, and surviving a near-fatal stroke.
“the book that i think is perhaps at least to me the most beautiful book of all is longitude by dava sobel about the history of the discovery of time keeping”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Andrew Huberman: Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for work on brain development, vision, and neural plasticity. He hosts the Huberman Lab podcast and shares science-based health tools. Stanford neurobiologist Andrew Huberman on using light, breathing, and the body to control sleep, stress, and performance.
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