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Every Living Thing
- Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
- By: Rob Dunn
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys. In the tradition of E. O. Wilson, this engaging and fascinating work of popular science follows humanity's unending quest to discover every living thing in our natural world-from the unimaginably small in the most inhospitable of places on earth to the unimaginably far away in the unexplored canals on Mars.
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Every Living Thing
- Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-03-20
- Language: English
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Adventurism in Science
- From Bold Hypotheses to Dangerous Illusions
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Joshua Courtright
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Science is often portrayed as a realm of certainty—precise formulas, flawless methods, and sudden “eureka” moments of revelation. But the truth is far more complex, fragile, and deeply human. This book explores the hidden life of science: its adventurism and audacity, its errors and illusions, its entanglement with power, and its uneasy partnership with machines.
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Adventurism in Science
- From Bold Hypotheses to Dangerous Illusions
- Narrated by: Joshua Courtright
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 17-10-25
- Language: English
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Naming Nature
- The Clash Between Instinct and Science
- By: Carol Kaesuk Yoon
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Today, taxonomy is viewed by many as an outdated field, one nearly irrelevant to the rest of science and of even less interest to the rest of the world. Now, as Carol Kaesuk Yoon reminds us in Naming Nature, taxonomy is critically important, because it turns out to be much more than mere science. It is also the latest incarnation of a long-unrecognized human practice that has gone on across the globe, in every culture, in every language since before time: the deeply human act of ordering and naming the living world.
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Naming Nature
- The Clash Between Instinct and Science
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-09-10
- Language: English
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Dispatches from Planet 3
- Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
- By: Marcia Bartusiak
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological "tales" by multiple award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak. In 32 concise and engrossing essays, the author provides a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe and those who strive to uncover its mysteries. Bartusiak shares the back stories for many momentous astronomical discoveries, including the contributions of such pioneers as Beatrice Tinsley and her groundbreaking research in galactic evolution.
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Great content but narration let it down
- By Fichops on 02-01-22
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Dispatches from Planet 3
- Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
- By: Stephen M Barr
- Narrated by: Mark D. Mickelson
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith argues that the great discoveries of modern physics are more compatible with the central teachings of Christianity and Judaism about God, the cosmos, and the human soul than with the atheistic viewpoint of scientific materialism.
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
- Narrated by: Mark D. Mickelson
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-05-17
- Language: English
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Out Cold
- A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
- By: Phil Jaekl
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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“A fascinating look into the strange and sometimes unbelievable history of hypothermic medicine. Jaekl weaves together a story that is part history lesson and part science thriller. This is truly a must-read for any fan of science and science fiction!” —Douglas Talk, MD/MPH, chief medical...
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Out Cold
- A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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We Are All Stardust
- Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know
- By: Stefan Klein
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson, Simon Vance, Kate Reading, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, "First and foremost, curiosity." In this collection of intimate conversations with 19 of the world's best-known scientists (including three Nobel Laureates), Klein lets us listen in as today's leading minds reveal what they still hope to discover - and how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives outside the lab.
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Inspired!
- By Natasha on 13-12-21
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We Are All Stardust
- Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson, Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 03-11-15
- Language: English
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Reality Index
- Measuring Distortion Under Anthropic-Bound Cognitive Constraints
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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This book introduces the Anthropic-Independent Reality Index, a conceptual framework designed to assess the degree to which ideas are shaped — or distorted — by evolved cognitive structures. Drawing on insights from evolutionary epistemology, cognitive neuroscience, and the philosophy of science, the index offers a non-utilitarian scale for measuring the ontological independence of a concept from the adaptive biases of the human mind.
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Reality Index
- Measuring Distortion Under Anthropic-Bound Cognitive Constraints
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 29-09-25
- Language: English
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Mapping the Heavens
- The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
- By: Priyamvada Natarajan
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Mapping the Heavens provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is at the forefront of the research - an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe.
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Science at its best
- By Grahan Price on 01-03-23
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Mapping the Heavens
- The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 26-04-16
- Language: English
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God and the Folly of Faith
- The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
- By: Victor J. Stenger
- Narrated by: David Smalley, Dan Barker
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict. Some even claim that Christianity was responsible for the development of science. In a sweeping historical survey that begins with ancient Greek science and proceeds through the Renaissance and Enlightenment to contemporary advances in physics and cosmology, Stenger makes a convincing case that not only is this conclusion false, but Christianity actually held back the progress of science for 1,000 years.
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Excellent book
- By jesper kjaer on 20-05-20
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God and the Folly of Faith
- The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
- Narrated by: David Smalley, Dan Barker
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 04-04-16
- Language: English
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Brainwashed
- The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
- By: Sally Satel, Scott O. Lilienfeld
- Narrated by: Jean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In recent years, the advent of MRI technology seems to have unlocked the secrets of the human mind, revealing the sources of our deepest desires, intentions, and fears. As renowned psychiatrist and scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld demonstrate in Brainwashed, however, the explanatory power of brain scans in particular and neuroscience more generally has been vastly overestimated.
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Interesting concept with not so interesting narration
- By Ashkan on 25-08-25
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Brainwashed
- The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
- Narrated by: Jean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-06-13
- Language: English
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The Philadelphia Chromosome
- A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
- By: Jessica Wapner
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity and determination restored the promise of a future to the more than 50,000 people diagnosed each year with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).
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dull as ditch water
- By sarah page on 24-01-16
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The Philadelphia Chromosome
- A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-05-13
- Language: English
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Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own.
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best book I'll read this year
- By mr david curran on 15-03-23
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Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-02-17
- Language: English
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Failure: Why Science Is so Successful
- By: Stuart Firestein
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In his sequel to Ignorance (Oxford University Press, 2012), Stuart Firestein shows us that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors - and that this is a good thing! Failure: Why Science Is So Successful delves into the origins of scientific research as a process that relies upon trial and error, one which inevitably results in a hefty dose of failure. In fact, scientists throughout history have relied on failure to guide their research, viewing mistakes as a necessary part of the process.
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Witty and very relevant
- By Swede on 02-09-23
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Failure: Why Science Is so Successful
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-03-16
- Language: English
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The Buddha and the Quantum
- Hearing the Voice of Every Cell
- By: Samuel Avery
- Narrated by: Samuel Avery
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you seeking a deeper understanding of consciousness? Are you interested in meditation or currently practicing meditation? The Buddha and the Quantum is about the connection between meditation and physics. Many books show parallels between consciousness and physics; a few of these attempt to explain consciousness in terms of the physics of everyday experience. This is the only book that explains physics and the everyday world in terms of consciousness alone.
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I loved 'Paradigm Shift' but .......
- By Jem on 19-11-15
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The Buddha and the Quantum
- Hearing the Voice of Every Cell
- Narrated by: Samuel Avery
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 02-06-11
- Language: English
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Pricing the Future
- Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
- By: George Szpiro
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Financial economist George G. Szpiro here tells the fascinating stories of the pioneers of mathematical finance who conducted the search for the elusive options pricing formula. From the broker's assistant who published the first mathematical explanation of financial markets to Albert Einstein and other scientists, Pricing the Future retraces the historical and intellectual developments that ultimately led to the widespread use of mathematical models to drive investment strategies on Wall Street.
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Beste book I have "read" on futures & derivatives.
- By Emilie on 29-09-13
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Pricing the Future
- Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 29-11-11
- Language: English
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Origin Story
- The Trials of Charles Darwin
- By: Howard Markel
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In Origin Story, medical historian Howard Markel recounts the two-year period (1858 to 1860) of Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Species through its spectacular success and controversy. Simultaneously, Markel delves into the mysterious health symptoms Darwin developed, combing the literature to emerge with a cogent diagnosis of a case that has long fascinated medical historians.
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Review
- By Peter on 13-09-24
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Origin Story
- The Trials of Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-06-24
- Language: English
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Been There, Done That
- A Rousing History of Sex
- By: Rachel Feltman
- Narrated by: Rachel Feltman
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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A rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to Hildegard von Bingen’s treatise on the female orgasm, demystifying plenty of urban legends along the way. Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible...
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Been There, Done That
- A Rousing History of Sex
- Narrated by: Rachel Feltman
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 17-05-22
- Language: English
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The End of Night
- Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
- By: Paul Bogard
- Narrated by: Paul Bogard
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quarters of Americans' eyes never switch to night vision and most of us no longer experience true darkness. In The End of Night, Paul Bogard restores our awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to art.
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Dark skies.
- By Paul Murphy on 17-02-24
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The End of Night
- Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
- Narrated by: Paul Bogard
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-04-14
- Language: English
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Third Thoughts
- By: Steven Weinberg
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Performance35
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and author of the classic The First Three Minutes, Weinberg shares his views on some of the most fundamental and fascinating aspects of physics and the universe. But he does not seclude science behind disciplinary walls or shy away from politics, taking on what he sees as the folly of manned spaceflight, the harms of inequality, and the importance of public goods. His point of view is rationalist, realist, reductionist, and devoutly secularist.
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third thoughts
- By Gareth Richards on 30-07-22
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Third Thoughts
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-08-18
- Language: English
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