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The Plague
Albert Camus ISBN 9781582017365
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Albert Camus ISBN 9781582017365
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This book by Albert Camus has come up 5 times across 2 different shows: Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. 5 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Barry Barish, Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-08-20 and the most recent from 2024-05-09. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population. As one of the few who knew life before the plague, James Howard Smith tries to impart what he knows to his grandsons while he still can. Jack London's visionary post-apocalyptic novel The Scarlet Plague was written in 1912.
“I just finished a book called The Plague that looked at the history of civilizations through the lens of different plagues very interesting”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Gad Saad: Lebanese-Jewish evolutionary psychologist, professor of marketing at Concordia University, and bestselling author of The Parasitic Mind and The Saad Truth About Happiness. Evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad returns for his 10th JRE to discuss antisemitism, parasitic ideas, suicidal empathy, and AI fears.
“my favorite book Now by kamu is probably the plague and all of that has evolved”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Lex Fridman (solo): AI researcher and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast. This is a solo video in which he reads and reflects on a classic book rather than interviewing a guest. Lex Fridman summarizes George Orwell's 1984 and shares personal takeaways on love, hate, power, and resisting totalitarianism.
“the most important book that i've read in the last year when i've been forced to be isolated was existential literature it was i decided to reread camous the plague”— Barry Barish
The guest here is Barry Barish: Theoretical physicist at Caltech and 2017 Nobel laureate in Physics for his leadership of the LIGO detector that first observed gravitational waves. Nobel laureate Barry Barish explains how LIGO measured gravitational waves with the most precise instrument humans have ever built.
“oh yeah that's a great book it's a great book and it's right now to read it it's fine i think that book is about love”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Barry Barish: Theoretical physicist at Caltech and 2017 Nobel laureate in Physics for his leadership of the LIGO detector that first observed gravitational waves. Nobel laureate Barry Barish explains how LIGO measured gravitational waves with the most precise instrument humans have ever built.
“i will tell you the last line of the plague we learn in times of pestilence that there's more to admire in men than to despise and i love that”— guest
The guest here is Sheldon Solomon: Social psychologist at Skidmore College and co-developer of Terror Management Theory. He co-authored 'The Worm at the Core' and built decades of experiments on how mortality awareness shapes human behavior, extending the ideas of Ernest Becker. Social psychologist Sheldon Solomon argues the fear of death secretly drives nearly everything humans build, believe, and destroy.
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