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Lex Fridman Podcast

by Lex Fridman

#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths

12.12.2025 • 00:00:00

Irving Finkel is a scholar of ancient languages and a longtime curator at the British Museum, renowned for his expertise in Mesopotamian history and c...

#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life

30.11.2025 • 00:00:00

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems. Tha...

#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy

17.11.2025 • 00:00:00

David Kirtley is a nuclear fusion engineer and CEO of Helion Energy, a company working on building the world’s first commercial fusion power plant by ...

#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

31.10.2025 • 02:54:01

Dan Houser is co-founder of Rockstar Games and is a legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video game...

#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex

14.10.2025 • 02:48:50

Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist and author who in her books explores human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, the psychology of evil,...

#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature

01.10.2025 • 04:42:37

Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep482-sc See below...

#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

19.09.2025 • 04:31:21

Norman Ohler is a historian and author of “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich,” a book that investigates the role of psychoactive drugs, particularly s...

#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park

04.09.2025 • 03:41:55

Dave Hone is a paleontologist, expert on dinosaurs, co-host of the Terrible Lizards podcast, and author of numerous scientific papers and books on the...

#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories

29.08.2025 • 00:00:00

Dave Plummer is a programmer, former Microsoft software engineer (Windows 95, NT, XP), creator of Task Manager, author of two books on autism, and hos...

#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex

24.08.2025 • 10:35:13

Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of Provoked, and ...