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Ouch!
- Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To
- By: Margee Kerr, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
- Narrated by: Laila Pyne
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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Pain is complicated. But most of the time, the way we treat pain is superficial - we seek out states of perfect painlessness by avoiding it at all costs, or suppressing it, usually with drugs. This has left us hurting all the more. Through in-depth interviews, investigation into the history of pain and original research, Ouch! paints a new picture of pain as a complex and multi-layered phenomenon.
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Ouch!
- Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To
- Narrated by: Laila Pyne
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 21-01-21
- Language: English
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The Wood Age
- How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History
- By: Roland Ennos
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Roland Ennos’ The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world’s most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four poster bed. In a journey to appreciate how much it matters, Ennos takes the listener through four phases: the impact of wooded habits on the lives of primates; human emergence and the discoveries of fire and woodwork; wood’s role in an environment both pre- and post-industrialisation; and lastly, the possible future of wood in an increasingly technologised world.
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The Wood Age
- How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Creation
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 10 hrs
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Creation by Adam Rutherford tells the entire spellbinding story of life in two gripping narratives. The Origin of Life is a four-billion-year detective story that uses the latest science to explain what life is and where it first came from, dealing with life's biggest questions and arriving at a thrilling answer. The Future of Life introduces an extraordinary technological revolution: 'synthetic biology', the ability to create entirely new life forms within the lab.
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Creation
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 21-12-21
- Language: English
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Swifts and Us
- The Life of the Bird That Sleeps in the Sky
- By: Sarah Gibson
- Narrated by: Janine Cooper-Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Sarah Gibson has written a fascinating story of discovery, exploring what is known about these mysterious birds, their ancient ancestry and how they have been regarded through history. But the swifts are in real danger: often unintentionally, we are sealing our homes against wildlife of any kind. Cracks, gaps and crevices which for thousands of years have offered nesting space in buildings, are being closed off, while new housing rarely offers entry holes for nesting birds.
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Swifts and Us
- The Life of the Bird That Sleeps in the Sky
- Narrated by: Janine Cooper-Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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Restoring the Wild
- Sixty Years of Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways
- By: Roy Dennis
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Roy was instrumental in returning the osprey, red kite and golden eagle to the British Isles, but the road to reintroduction isn’t an easy one. In what will surely be the seminal book on British reintroductions, Roy details the painstaking process of returning the Goldeneye to Scotland, one duckling at a time, the die-hard determination needed to make a dazzling success of the red kite reintroduction and the leap of faith we will all need to make to accept sharing our forests and skies with large carnivores again.
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Restoring the Wild
- Sixty Years of Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-03-21
- Language: English
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The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry: Series 1-10
- BBC Science Sleuths Solve Everyday Mysteries
- By: Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry
- Length: 16 hrs
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In this irreverent and illuminating popular science show, award-winning geneticist Dr Adam Rutherford teams up with mathematics guru Dr Hannah Fry to solve puzzling conundrums sent in by listeners. For the past five years, they've been scrutinising a cornucopia of cases using the power of science - from why people shout on their mobile phones to how much the bacteria in our body weighs. In these 50 episodes, they tackle topics including what makes gingers ginger, how to make the perfect cup of tea, whether being left-handed affects your brain and why we get static shocks.
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The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry: Series 1-10
- BBC Science Sleuths Solve Everyday Mysteries
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry
- Length: 16 hrs
- Release date: 28-01-21
- Language: English
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The Code Breaker
- Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Save Our Lives
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 16 hrs
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The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
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The Code Breaker
- Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Save Our Lives
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 16 hrs
- Release date: 09-03-21
- Language: English
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Uncommon Sense Teaching
- Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
- By: Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky, Terrence J. Sejnowski
- Length: 9 hrs
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A groundbreaking guide to improve teaching based on the latest research in neuroscience, from the best-selling author of A Mind for Numbers.
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Uncommon Sense Teaching
- Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 15-06-21
- Language: English
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Return of the God Hypothesis
- Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 22 hrs
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In 2004, Stephen C. Meyer, one of the preeminent scientists studying the origins of life, ignited a firestorm of media and scientific controversy when a biology journal at the Smithsonian Institution published his peer-reviewed article advancing the theory of Intelligent Design. Then, in his two best-selling books, Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt, he helped unravel a mystery that Charles Darwin did not address - How did life begin? - and offered further scientific proof to bolster his arguments on the history of life and our origins.
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Return of the God Hypothesis
- Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 22 hrs
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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Strange Bedfellows
- Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
- By: Ina Park
- Narrated by: Ina Park
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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With curiosity and wit, Ina Park's Strange Bedfellows rips back the sheets on the mysteries of what happens when STDs enter the sack…
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Strange Bedfellows
- Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
- Narrated by: Ina Park
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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Story or Die
- How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life
- By: Lisa Cron
- Narrated by: Katie Koster
- Length: 9 hrs
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Story isn't just one way to persuade. It's the way. It's built into the architecture of the brain, and has been since early humans gathered around the camp fire, trying to figure out how to outsmart the lion next door. In Story or Die, story coach Lisa Cron sets out to decode the power of story, first by examining how the brain processes information, translates it into narrative, and then guards it as if your life depends on it.
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Story or Die
- How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life
- Narrated by: Katie Koster
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 02-03-21
- Language: English
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Dinosaurs!
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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Terrible lizards. That’s what the word dinosaurs means. Yet dinosaurs are not true lizards, and they are not necessarily terrible, either. Paleontologists have overturned many misconceptions, and in Dinosaurs!, we look at what the latest research tells us and what we still have to learn about these endlessly fascinating creatures.
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Dinosaurs!
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 26-01-21
- Language: English
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Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- By: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Length: 8 hrs
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This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, tweeting.... The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption.
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Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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Feeling & Knowing
- Making Minds Conscious
- By: Antonio Damasio
- Narrated by: Julian Morris
- Length: 6 hrs
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In Feeling & Knowing, Damasio elucidates the myriad aspects of consciousness and presents his analysis and new insights in a way that is faithful to our own intuitive sense of the experience. In 46 brief chapters, Damasio helps us understand the relationship between consciousness and the mind, why being conscious is not the same as either being awake or sensing, the central role of feeling, and why the brain is essential for the development of consciousness.
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Feeling & Knowing
- Making Minds Conscious
- Narrated by: Julian Morris
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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The Hidden Spring
- A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
- By: Mark Solms
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Why does it feel like something to be alive? For one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience, solving this puzzle has been a lifetime's quest. Now at last, Mark Solms, who discovered the brain mechanism for dreaming, has arrived at his answer. More than just a philosophical argument, the Free Energy theory will profoundly change how you understand your own existence.
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The Hidden Spring
- A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 11-02-21
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Information
- Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
- By: Caleb Scharf
- Length: 10 hrs
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One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we’ve failed to ask exactly why we’re expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive - an aggregate lifeform.
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The Ascent of Information
- Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 15-06-21
- Language: English
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The Sleeping Beauties
- And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- By: Suzanne O'Sullivan
- Length: 7 hrs
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In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night. These disparate cases are some of the most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the 21st century, as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them within the boundaries of medical science and - more crucially - to treat them.
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The Sleeping Beauties
- And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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Books do Furnish a Life
- An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Books Do Furnish a Life is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, exploring humanity, and interrogating faith. For the first time, it brings together Richard Dawkins' forewords, afterwords and introductions to the work of some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - with a selection of his reviews to provide an electrifying celebration of science writing, both fiction and non-fiction. It is also a sparkling addition to Dawkins' own remarkable canon of work.
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Books do Furnish a Life
- An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 06-05-21
- Language: English
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Anxiety Is Your Superpower
- Using Anxiety to Think Better, Feel Better and Do Better
- By: Dr Wendy Suzuki
- Length: 10 hrs
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We live in an age of anxiety. Like an omnipresent yet invisible odour you've grown used to, anxiety has become a constant condition, a fact of life, and a distraction that undermines our quality of life. Dr Wendy Suzuki's groundbreaking research shows us that science tells us a very different story: yes, anxiety is unpleasant - it's meant to be - and in the debilitating extreme, what Wendy will call 'bad anxiety', it's destructive. But most of the anxiety that humans feel is essential.
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Anxiety Is Your Superpower
- Using Anxiety to Think Better, Feel Better and Do Better
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 21-10-21
- Language: English
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Evolution for Everyone
- How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
- By: David Sloan Wilson
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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With stories that entertain as much as they inform, renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson outlines the basic principles of evolution and shows how, when properly understood, they can illuminate the length and breadth of creation, from the origin of life to the nature of religion.
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Evolution for Everyone
- How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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