Lex Fridman Podcast
Conversations that explore technology, history, philosophy, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, engineering, AI, robotics, programming, music, film, art, sports, psychology, neuroscience, geopolitics, business, economics, religion, astronomy, and the human condition with people from all walks of life.
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“I'm reminded of um The opening line for Anna Karinina. You know. Every happy family is happy in the same way and every unhappy family is unhappy in their own way”
“He has authored many books that I highly recommend, including Madness in Civilization, a cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine”
“and Desperate Remedies Psychiatrists. turbulent quest to cure mental illness”
“the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the profession. DSM3”
“the film of Ken Keasey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”
“I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which is a much more sympathetic portrait of a different kind of psychiatry”
“My book Madhouse at one point interested Hollywood”
“And the solution was fat and blood. That was the title of the other book”
“I read the His book um The Fourth Turning. You check that out. Um it talks about this notion of history working in cycles”
“There's also a very good book about their rivalry. I recommend it. It basically tells the story of modern football. through their rivalry. Messi versus Ronaldo one rivalry almost twenty year era”
“you have the Kansas Nebraska Act, you have Dred Scott, you have the caning of Charles Sumner on the on the floor of the Senate. you have Uncle Tom's cabin earlier in the decade in eighteen th and what and the impact that that had on attitudes toward slavery”
“we should never censor books. We should read books, we should read Mein Kampf, we should read Uh books that capture a certain moment in history”
“I taught a graduate seminar at one point On on foundational nineteenth century texts, and one of the texts I was gonna ha that I assigned in the class was was Huckleberry Finn”
“you have written Uh one of the books is Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood, the Rise and Fall of Byzantium. nine fifty five A D to the first crusade”
“This is sort of what Aristotle says about tyrants. In the politics, Aristotle's giving essentially advice to tyrants on how to protect themselves”
“So the reason they call it the God particle is this book by Leon Letterman”
“I wrote this book for Oxford, Einstein's Unfinished Dream, and Einstein's unfinished dream was to come up with a theory of everything”
“It's if you can learn C, and let's be honest, that it's from it's from the K<unk>R book, Learn C”
“The Seawolves, A History of the Vikings, and the Normans, From Raiders to Kings”
“The Seawolves, A History of the Vikings, and the Normans, From Raiders to Kings”
“the monks had dedicated themselves to a life of studying the Bible”
“reading meditations is also just an insight into the mind of a man who is to himself”
“let me leave you with some words from the Valsanga saga, a 13th century Icelandic prose epic”
“I've been reading you know, nineteen eighty four or Uh Green Hill's a stranglethorn. And I think it's amazing”
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