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Nuclear War: A Scenario
by Annie Jacobsen

“I certainly don't think the AI would have had that much to do with it. Had Annie Jacobson on the show who wrote Nuclear War, a countdown scenario, and that was a fun episode. Yeah. Well, her new one is about bioweapons. It's about collably. And she said the Russians during the 80s, when we are not working on enhancing weapons to make them”

Modern Wisdom · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143 · 29/08/2026 · at 1:04:24

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    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    by Jared Diamond · 2 episodes · 2 shows

    “He's also a renowned author of books such as Guns, Germs, and Steel, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. He has also been awarded the National Medal of Science and a MacArthur Genius Award.”

    Huberman Lab · What Makes Great Leaders & How to Live an Extraordinary Life | Dr. Jared Diamond · 19/10/2026 · at 1:12

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    The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
    by David Deutsch · 2 episodes

    “we are all at, like I say in my book, we're all at the beginning of infinity. We're only ever at the beginning. And so we have something in common with everyone else who is also at the beginning.”

    Modern Wisdom · Why Pessimism Makes Dumb Ideas Sound Smart - David Deutsch - #1164 · 17/10/2026 · at 5:14

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    Biological War: A Scenario
    by Annie Jacobsen · 2 episodes

    “Nuclear war scenario. Her news, which was the scariest book I've ever read. The new one is on biological war. It's bad. It's a bummer. It's fucking scary. It's like how easy it would be to ruin everything. Yeah. Yeah. And how we're doing it. Everyone can die. Russia did it.”

    The Joe Rogan Experience · #2539 - Protect Our Parks 17 · 13/08/2026 · at 1:13:38

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    Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
    by Brian Greene · 1 episode

    “these kinds of things. But in the book Until the End of Time, I tried to give the reader a sense of how we got here. But I also then turned to the future and tried to give them a sense of what we'll be if we go arbitrarily far into the future.”

    The Diary Of A CEO · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian Greene · 17/08/2026 · at 1:56:45

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    Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
    by Neil deGrasse Tyson · 1 episode

    “So there are things much smaller than we are. In fact, I addressed some of that in, I wrote an alien book recently, Take Me to your Leader there's a lot in there about changing your perspective on what you might expect life forms to be like out there”

    The Diary Of A CEO · Neil deGrasse Tyson On Aliens, Simulation Theory, and What Happens Inside A Black Hole · 09/07/2026 · at 8:47

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    Einstein's Unfinished Dream: Practical Progress Towards a Theory of Everything
    by Don Lincoln · 1 episode

    “So let me, I love this. All right. So let's back up. I'm going to pitch. 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 was unfinished because, well, it's unfinished. And so the second part, the tagline of that book is practical progress towards a theory of everything with the emphasis on practical.”

    Lex Fridman Podcast · #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln · 29/05/2026 · at 1:29:50

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    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    by Hans Rosling · 1 episode
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    Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
    by Brian Klaas · 1 episode

    “To hit that level. It's a universal. There's a, a cool thought experiment. Brian class wrote a book called fluke, and he's talking about, um, realities that are convergent or, uh, coincident. And he's basically saying, uh, if you were to run reality back a thousand times in all of the other universes, in how many of them would you have got an extraordinary outcome for talking about this?”

    Modern Wisdom · Navy SEAL: “Not Killing People Is Hard” - DJ Shipley - #1112 · 18/06/2026 · at 14:30

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    Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
    by Yuval Noah Harari · 1 episode

    “is the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari. And he's written a book called Homo Deus, The Man-God. And... That really made me prick up my ears, because I know enough about this book here, the Bible, to realize that the drive for humans towards self-deification is...”

    The Diary Of A CEO · Christian Apologist: The Truth About Christianity (And Why Atheism Is Fading) · 04/06/2026 · at 6:52

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