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Mentioned in 13 episodes

When We Cease to Understand the World

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Book • 2021

Benjamín Labatut

Mentioned by

Constance Grady

Jim O’Shaughnessy

Mentioned in 13 episodes

Mentioned by

Coco Krumme

as a book that miraculously blends fiction and nonfiction, exploring the origins of ideas.

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Recommended by

Derek Thompson

as a book that fills him with curiosity about scientific discovery.

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Has a line about writing, that it's less like creating something, more like picking up flowers off the ground.

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Recommended by

Hannah Fry

as capturing the exhilaration of being at the brink of new knowledge.

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Recommended by

Coco Krumme

as a blend of fiction and nonfiction about mathematicians and philosophers.

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Recommended by

Patrick McGee

as one of the two best books he has read in the last five years.

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Recommended by

Tina He

, reflecting on obsession and its consequences.

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Mentioned by

Jim O’Shaughnessy

, who kept going back to the book while preparing for the conversation with

Sam Arbesman

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Sam Arbesman — Science, Complexity and Humanistic Computation (EP.277)

Mentioned by

Tim Sullivan

as a book that starts straightforward and becomes more fictional.

What We're Reading & Technology Changing Reading

Recommended by Rachel Dobbs for its comprehensibility of complex physics concepts and exploration of scientists' motivations.

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Recommended by

Jeff Currie

as apropos to the current environment, exploring the lives of German scientists in the 30s and 40s.

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Mentioned by

Danny Crichton

in relation to the evolution of scientific collaboration from individual efforts to large teams.

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Mentioned by

Constance Grady

as a book exploring the impact of new scientific ideas and the struggle of scientists.

When reality broke

Recommended by Gia Tolentino as a book about scientific discoveries that bring people to the brink of madness.

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Recommended by

Jon Hyman

as a fictionalized narrative about scientists and their discoveries.

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Recommended by

Jia Tolentino

; a book about scientific discoveries that bring people to the brink of madness.

On Children, Meaning, Media and Psychedelics

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