Movies from Yuval Noah Harari

Don't Look Up

Two low-level astronomers, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
Are we as happy as our viking ancestors? Who should save us from an astroid? What truths lie in the film "Don't Look Up"?
Movies from Yuval Noah Harari

The Matrix

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
Movies such as The Matrix and Her and TV series such as Westworld and Black Mirror shape how people understand the most important technological, social and economic developments of our time.
Movies from Yuval Noah Harari

Her

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
It's just amazing.
Movies from Yuval Noah Harari

Inside Out

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley's guiding emotions— Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness—live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life and tries to keep things positive, but the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
A wonderful, one of the best movies I've ever heard. Very top of my list.
Books from Yuval Noah Harari

Different

A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE?'Brilliant and fascinating... brings a scientific, compassionate and balanced approach to some of the hottest controversies about sex and gender' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st CenturyHow different are the sexes? Is gender uniquely human? Where does gender identity originate?Drawing on decades of observing our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores what we know of biological sex differences and of the role of culture and socialization.From maternal and paternal behaviour to sexual orientation, gender identity, and the limitations of the gender binary, de Waal analyses our shared evolutionary history with the apes, considering what is similar and what sets us apart. Male and female networking groups, sexual signals, the existence of gender non-conforming individuals, and maternal bonds are observed in primate societies, but humans stand apart in the development of nuclear families, the prevalence of sexual violence, and joint parental care.With expert insight and engaging storytelling, de Waal not only sets right gendered biases in the scientific community, but delivers a fresh and thought-provoking understanding of the behavioural norms and the many remarkable potentials of the human species.'A breath of fresh air...Fascinating, nuanced and very timely' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind and Utopia for Realists
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
I’m reading this now. This was a safe bet for me, because every time Frans de Waal publishes a book I immediately read it.
Books from Yuval Noah Harari

The Women of Troy

A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post).Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean.It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester.Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
I really liked this book, which retells part of the story of the Trojan war and the Iliad from the viewpoint of the captive women.
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Yuval Harari 3 Fresh Book Recommendations

Yuval spoke to The Guardian and recommended top 3 books that guaranteed will blow you away and distract from uninspiring lockdown life. Check this out!
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
Yuval spoke to The Guardian and recommended top 3 books that guaranteed will blow you away and distract from uninspiring lockdown life. Check this out!
Books from Yuval Noah Harari

The Gulag Archipelago

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSONA vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.A thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of The Gulag Archipelago was abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation. 'Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne Applebaum THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
Alexander Solzhenitsyn describes the Soviet conference in Stalin's day, when the audience clapped their hands enthusiastically to applaud Stalin. After a few minutes of clapping everybody became very nervous. They were all tired of clapping, but nobody wanted to be the first to stop.
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Yuval Noah Harari Books - 28 Favorite Reads

Yuval Noah Harari is a massive book fan. Here is the list of the most prominent reads from the scientist.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
Yuval Noah Harari is a massive book fan. Here is the list of the most prominent reads from the scientist.
TV Shows from Yuval Noah Harari

Black Mirror

A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
TV series such as Westworld and Black Mirror shape how people understand the most important technological, social and economic developments of our time.
TV Shows from Yuval Noah Harari

Westworld

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
Movies such as The Matrix and Her and TV series such as Westworld and Black Mirror shape how people understand the most important technological, social and economic developments of our time.
TV Shows from Yuval Noah Harari

Please Like Me

After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the rest of his family embrace his new found lifestyle.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
I like it very much.
TV Shows from Yuval Noah Harari

Succession

The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
New third season is amazing.
TV Shows from Yuval Noah Harari

Young Royals

Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
This series is about what happens when the crown prince of Sweden turns out to be gay. Fiction is at its best when it’s like a social experiment. Royal houses are built on the most traditional views of family, heredity, sexuality and gender.
TV Shows from Yuval Noah Harari

Game of Thrones

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
GAME OF THRONES is a Shakespearean drama besieged by a zombie movie. It revolves around the question “What is power?,” and in its more profound moments it offers a leisurely meditation on the fluidity of authority. At other times, it just bombards viewers with the latest special effects.
Music from Yuval Noah Harari

Hamilton

Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
What’s your summer soundtrack? The Hamilton soundtrack with a sprinkling of 1980s pop
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S. N. Goenka

Yuval Noah Harari
Scientist
I learned the meditation from a teacher called SN Goenka and it completely blew my mind.