Lex Fridman Podcast
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#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung
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Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
Andrew Scull
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 ▶ tap to play from here
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatrists' Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Andrew Scull
and desperate remedies psychiatrists turbulent quest to cure mental illness ▶ tap to play from here
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
American Psychiatric Association
the third edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of the profession dsm3 ▶ tap to play from here
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
the film of ken keasey's novel one flew over the cuckoo's nest ▶ tap to play from here
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Joanne Greenberg
i never promised you a rose garden which is a much more sympathetic portrait of a different kind of psychiatry ▶ tap to play from here
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
Andrew Scull
my book madhouse at one point interested hollywood ▶ tap to play from here
Wear and Tear; Or, Hints for the Overworked
S. Weir Mitchell
one was called wear and tear ▶ tap to play from here
Fat and Blood: And How to Make Them
S. Weir Mitchell
and the solution was fat and blood that was the title of the other book ▶ tap to play from here
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
he writes the interpretation of dreams for example ▶ tap to play from here
#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux
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The Fourth Turning
William Strauss and Neil Howe
i read the his book um the fourth turning you check that out um it talks about this notion of history working in cycles ▶ tap to play from here
#500 – Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football
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Messi vs. Ronaldo: The One Rivalry, Two Goats, and the Era That Remade the World's Game
Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
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 ▶ tap to play from here
#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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 ▶ tap to play from here
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
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 ▶ tap to play from here
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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 ▶ tap to play from here
#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
Anthony Kaldellis
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 ▶ tap to play from here
Politics
Aristotle
this is sort of what aristotle says about tyrants in the politics aristotle's giving essentially advice to tyrants on how to protect themselves ▶ tap to play from here
#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Leon Lederman
so the reason they call it the god particle is this book by leon letterman ▶ tap to play from here
Einstein's Unfinished Dream: Unifying the Universe
Don Lincoln
i wrote this book for oxford einstein's unfinished dream and einstein's unfinished dream was to come up with a theory of everything ▶ tap to play from here
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
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The C Programming Language
Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
it's if you can learn c and let's be honest that it's from it's from the kunkr book learn c ▶ tap to play from here
#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age
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#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution
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#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming
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#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music
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#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
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#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
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#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle
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#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins
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#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
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#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
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#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
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#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
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#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
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