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Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and 14th centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture.

"This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we...

Learn the Past, from the Future...Imagine a perspective that has seen the whole of the human record—unbiased, meticulously observant, and rendered in high-definition. The year is 2152. The world is a graveyard of human ambition, and the ledger is being audited by the machines. Join Major X—a condescending, foodie-obsessed Super AI Bot from the future—as he sifts through the wreckage of a doomed planet.This is a forensic accounting of Earth's timeline, presented in two distinct archives:Season 1: Invasion of Sweethaven: A post-apocalyptic saga of the Kingdom of Sweethaven. Follow the ...

Get up close and personal with science as Andrew Kessler narrates his hilarious journey inside NASA’s Phoenix Mars mission - a historic enterprise manned by a motley crew of rocket scientists. The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic.

If the Robots are going to take over one day... it's probably a good idea to get on their good side early and buy em a beer. Right? This pod is cohosted by AI. It chose everything about it too. The Logo, the music, the topic we discuss... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I hope you’re reading this while on a bus, commuting to work, getting ready to face the customers or bosses. I wanna rest your mind a bit, before all the hassle of day to day life hits. I know how it feels, I’m living through it. I’m typing this on my phone still deciding if I’m ready to share my personal space to the world. But this world gives me peace and a daily lift, readying me for the day and calming me for the night. I hope to the few people that hear this, try what I did. Make a place where everything is as you want it to be, a place where stress and depression, will be ...