Longitude

This book by Dava Sobel has been genuinely recommended 2 times across 2 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Andrew Huberman. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, anxiety & stress, brain health, depression & mood, hormones. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Jul 2021 and the most recent from Dec 2023. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution.

• “one of the books was the book longitude which is a wonderful story about discovery of timekeeping devices at sea”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I recommended three books at the end of the course every year that I taught it”
  Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Dec 202300:06:44

  Said during "A Process for Finding & Achieving Your Unique Purpose | Robert Greene". The episode features Robert Greene: Bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, The Art of Seduction, and Mastery. Trained at UC Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison; writes about psychology, strategy, and human nature rooted in history. Robert Greene gives Andrew Huberman a process for finding your unique purpose, on power, seduction, love, and surviving a near-fatal stroke.

• “the book that i think is perhaps at least to me the most beautiful book of all is longitude by dava sobel about the history of the discovery of time keeping”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “the most beautiful book of all is longitude by dava sobel ... that's the one i gift most often”
  Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202102:29:08

  Said during "Dr. Andrew Huberman, A Neurobiologist on Sleep, Performance, and Anxiety | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Andrew Huberman: Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for work on brain development, vision, and neural plasticity. He hosts the Huberman Lab podcast and shares science-based health tools. Stanford neurobiologist Andrew Huberman on using light, breathing, and the body to control sleep, stress, and performance.