Lex Fridman Podcast

Keyu Jin is an economist specializing in China’s economy, international macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, and financial policy. She is the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books The Analects by Confucius The New China Playbook Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by K.U. Gen

Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books (Note: “Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China” is inferred from the mention of “Kublai Khan and the Making of China” in the transcript, acknowledging a possible title discrepancy. “Emperor of the Seas” was excluded as it doesn’t correspond to an actual book by Weatherford.) Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan and the Quest for God by Jack Weatherford Kublai Khan and the Making of China by Jack Weatherford Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China by Jack Weatherford Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves by Work Projects Administration The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford The Secret History of the Mongols by Anonymous Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives by Norman R. Yetman (Editor)

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett Ethics by Baruch Spinoza (Essay) Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman (Essay) This Is Water by David Foster Wallace (Essay)

Debate on Iran war between Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz. Scott Horton is the author and director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, and for the past three decades, a staunch critic of U.S. foreign policy and military interventionism. Mark Dubowitz is the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, host of the Iran Breakdown podcast, and a leading expert on Iran and its nuclear program for over 20 years. This debate was recorded on Tuesday, June 24, after the Iran-Israel ceasefire was declared. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our ...

Terence Tao is widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He won the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and has contributed to a wide range of fields from fluid dynamics with Navier-Stokes equations to mathematical physics & quantum mechanics, prime numbers & analytics number theory, harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, random matrix theory, combinatorics, and progress on many of the hardest problems in the history of mathematics. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our ...

Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

James Holland is a historian specializing in World War II. He hosts a podcast called WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books No books extracted yet.

Oliver Anthony is singer-songwriter who first gained worldwide fame with his viral hit Rich Men North of Richmond. He became a voice for many who are voiceless, with many of his songs speaking to the struggle of the working class in modern American life. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books No books extracted yet. ...

Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, and gravitational waves. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books How the Universe Got Its Spots by Janna Levin A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Tim Sweeney is a legendary video game programmer, founder and CEO of Epic Games that created the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, and many other groundbreaking and influential video games. Your browser does not support the audio element. Mentioned Books No books extracted yet.