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The Expanse
Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby (inferred)
“I highly recommend to everybody”
“are you a fan of the expanse... great show... I highly recommend to everybody it's based on a series of books that are excellent”— Adam Frank
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The Expanse (book series)
James S. A. Corey
“I highly recommend to everybody ... a series of books that are excellent”
“I highly recommend to everybody it's based on a series of books that are excellent It's on Prime six seasons”— Adam Frank
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Arrival
Denis Villeneuve (inferred)
“one of my favorite movies ... I really love that one”
“one of my favorite movies is arrival I don't know if you ever seen that one I really love that one”— Adam Frank
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Altered Carbon
Laeta Kalogridis (inferred)
“that's a great series”
“altered carbon have you that's a that's a great series I think it's on Netflix ... it's pretty good it's got It's got some great great action sequences”— Adam Frank
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Aurora
Kim Stanley Robinson
“this great book ... I love the book”
“there's this great book um by Kim Stanley Robinson called Aurora ... I love the book because it was such a sort of inversion”— Adam Frank
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Eon
Greg Bear
“a great science fiction book”
“this is the plot actually of a great science fiction book called Eon by Greg bear”— Adam Frank
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Assassin's Creed
Ubisoft (inferred)
“it's a great game”
“I remember playing um uh Assassin's Creed where everybody's like you know what is it 12200 ... I was like yeah it's a great game”— Adam Frank
The guest's own work
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Light of the Stars
Adam Frank
“that was the topic of my last book light of the Stars it's like you've got you have to do the astrobiology of the anthropos scine”— Adam Frank
BookBy the guest
The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson
“this is something that you uh write about in the blind spot why science cannot ignore Human Experience sort of trying to pull the fire into the the process of uh science”— Lex Fridman
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Silo
Graham Yost (inferred)
“there's the show Silo which raises the question of basically if you're putting on a generational ship uh what do you tell the inhabitants”— Lex Fridman
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Postcard from Earth
Darren Aronofsky
“the movie uh Darren aronowski uh postcard from Earth where we can create this kind of Life gun that just shoots”— Lex Fridman
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick (inferred)
“directed panspermia or seeding some aspect of the evolution like 2001 yeah yeah”— Lex Fridman
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Doctor Who
BBC (inferred)
“Gavin called this the sorian hypothesis after the Doctor Who episode with the lizard creatures the sorians”— Adam Frank
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Assassin's Creed 2
Ubisoft (inferred)
“then I got Assassin's Creed 2 and uh it was 300 years later and everybody's like stab stab stab and the technology hadn't changed”— Adam Frank
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Godel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
“if you've ever read Goodell eer Bach he's got a whole chapter on Coons they're kind of non-logical problems”— Adam Frank
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Who Speaks for Earth?
unknown
“who speaks for earth I think which I think was a great book somebody wrote”— Adam Frank
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