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Neil Soni, Nat Eliason, and Adil Majid
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121: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
"Prime Intellect was an uncertain god. It had acted because it had to, but if it had been human its hand would be shaking on the controls." Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! This…
120: Wired To Heal: Regeneration and The Body Electric
"The greatest polluting element in the earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be a far greater threat on a global scale than warming, or the increase…
119: Surviving Against All Odds: Endurance by Alfred Lansing
"In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow…
118: Attention is All You Need: The World After Capital
"The amount of human attention in the world is finite. We have 24 hours in the day, some of which we need to spend paying attention to eating, sleeping and meeting our other needs. The attention…
117: Winning and Losing Millions in Crypto Confidential
"I could hardly form the words. My mouth wasn't working. My heart hammered in my ears and pins and needles burned my hands and feet. I squeezed my fists as hard as I could to get them to stop hurting…
116: What Was It All For? WWI by Martin Gilbert
"If the war was to be over by Christmas, as many believed, or at the latest by Easter 1915, tens of thousands of soldiers might be killed or wounded before the guns fell silent. Every army believed…
115: Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the…
114: Book vs. Big Screen: 3 Body Problem on Netflix
"But if science tells you that something's impossible, and it happens anyway, it means one of two things. Either the science is wrong, or it's a scam." Welcome back to another episode of Made You…
113: Too Much of a Good Thing: Bad Therapy
"We've never had a generation more focused on its feelings and, frankly, not one more tyrannized by their feelings." Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! Today, we're delving into…
112: Thou Mayest: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
"I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their…
111: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
"All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world." Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, we're…
110: Fear of Oozification
"Oozification is the process of recursively replacing systems based on numerous larger building blocks, governed by many rules, with ones based on fewer, smaller building blocks, governed by fewer…
109: The Pursuit of Intelligence: Flowers for Algernon
"I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone." Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! Today, we're…
108: To Strive or Not to Strive: Straw Dogs
"If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all, it is only to…
107: What is Quality: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"Quality...you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is. But that's self-contradictory. But some things are better than others, that is, they have more quality. But when you try to say what the…
106: Building Blocks of Civilization: How the World Really Works
"Modern economies will always be tied to massive material flows, whether those of ammonia-based fertilizers to feed the still-growing global population; plastics, steel, and cement needed for new…
105: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
"Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity — but if we dare to examine it, we find that this…
104: Are We Destined to Be Pets? Novacene by James Lovelock
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift." Welcome back to another episode of…
103: Beyond the River of Doubt: Into the Amazon
"But at a purely personal level, Rondon embodied the best of both modern and old-fashioned virtues. He was intensely and genuinely patriotic, adhered to traditional codes of honor, bravery, and…
102: From Fighter Jets to Rocket Ships: The Right Stuff
"The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and even—ultimately, God willing, one…
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