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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn ISBN 9789735020309
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Thomas Kuhn ISBN 9789735020309
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This book by Thomas Kuhn has come up 3 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Martine Rothblatt. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-12-18 and the most recent from 2024-06-25. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“one of my favorites is a book by a historian of science named Thomas qan... his book is perennially in print it's called the structure of scientific Revolutions”— Martine Rothblatt
The guest here is Michael Lewis and Martine Rothblatt: Michael Lewis is the bestselling author of Moneyball, The Big Short, and Going Infinite. Martine Rothblatt is a lawyer, transhumanist author, and founder/CEO of United Therapeutics and SiriusXM. Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary combo: Michael Lewis on writing and ambition, Martine Rothblatt on science, transhumanism, and saving her daughter.
“have you ever read the structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas yes that's like my only philosophy really that I've read but it's so brilliant”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Charan Ranganath: A psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis specializing in human memory, where he runs a lab using fMRI and other methods to study how the brain encodes and retrieves events. He is the author of 'Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold On to What Matters.'. Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath explains how human memory works as a reconstructive, predictive system shaping identity, imagination, false memories, and our sense of time.
“one of my favorites is a book by a historian of science named thomas kewan ... his book ... it's called the structure of scientific revolutions”— Martine Rothblatt
The guest here is Martine Rothblatt: Chairman and CEO of United Therapeutics, a biotechnology company she founded to save her daughter's life, and the earlier founder of Sirius XM satellite radio. A self-taught polymath spanning satellite communications, medicine, law, transgender rights, and aviation, holding degrees from UCLA and a PhD in medical ethics. Polymath Martine Rothblatt on building United Therapeutics to save her daughter, manufacturing organs, digital consciousness, vagus nerve stimulation, and zero-carbon engineering.
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