# Jack Weatherford
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Jack McIver Weatherford is the former DeWitt Wallace Professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is best known for his 2004 book, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. In 2006, he was awarded the Order of the Polar Star, Mongolia’s highest national honor for foreigners.
Accidental Gold-Hitting
RECORDED FEBRUARY 10TH, 2026
Concepts mentioned:
"THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS" – AESOP
GOLDILOCKS EFFECT (PLANET EARTH)
GOLDILOCKS AND THREE BEARS
GOLD STANDARD
ARISTOTLE AND THE GOLDEN MEAN
DONOVAN – "THERE IS A MOUNTAIN" (SONG)
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS – "I’M AN ADULT NOW" (SONG)
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#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep476-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. Transcr…
The Silk Road
The Silk Road was one of most influential network of trade routes to ever exist. This episode is related to our next series and a listener request!
Sources:
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bargreen
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa
Genghis Khan and th…
Marco Polo Part 1
Marco Polo dictated the greatest world travel adventure story in history while he was in prison. How did he get there? Well, he was only 17 when he joined his father and uncle in the family trade, and so begins the odyssey of Marco Polo…
Sources:
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bar…
Marco Polo Part 2
We continue the epic journey of Marco Polo with things both real and imagined, believed and disbelieved. All grand adventures and great odysseys must come to an end, but the question now was, were they to be believed?
Sources:
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bargreen
The Travels o…
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep476-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. Transcr…
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