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In the Herbarium
- The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants
- By: Maura C. Flannery
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowing them to describe and differentiate species and to document and research plant changes and biodiversity over time—including changes related to climate. Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the earliest collections belonging to such advocates of the technique as sixteenth-century botanist Luca Ghini, to the collections of poets, politicians, and painters, and to the digitization today.
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In the Herbarium
- The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 25-07-23
- Language: English
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Advent of the Algorithm
- The Idea that Rules the World
- By: David Berlinski
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds of the greatest thinkers in the world, the algorithm is what made the modern world possible. Without the algorithm, there would have been no computer, no Internet, no virtual reality, no e-mail, or any other technological advance that we rely on every day.
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Advent of the Algorithm
- The Idea that Rules the World
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-11-13
- Language: English
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Tripping on Utopia
- Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
- By: Benjamin Breen
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It...
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Tripping on Utopia
- Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 16-01-24
- Language: English
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Une histoire du monde sans sortir de chez moi
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Lemire
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
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Ayant découvert que ce qui s'était passé dans le monde depuis deux siècles s'était retrouvé sous forme d'objets et de rituels quotidiens dans notre intérieur, le plus drôle des écrivains voyageurs américains fait le tour de sa maison pour nous raconter cette grande aventure du génie humain - de l'invention de la tapette à souris à la conception de la tour Eiffel, de la saga des acariens à celle des milliardaires. Une histoire de l'envers du décor.
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Une histoire du monde sans sortir de chez moi
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Lemire
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 31-03-21
- Language: French
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The Essential Einstein: Public Writings
- By: Albert Einstein, Diana Kormos Buchwald, Tilman Sauer
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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The Essential Einstein: Public Writings presents a rich selection of Einstein's humanistic writings drawn from a diverse array of materials he sanctioned for publication during his lifetime. Distinct from previous collections, this incisive book presents previously excerpted works in their entirety, including key articles, lectures, and speeches.
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The Essential Einstein: Public Writings
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: English
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Warriors of the Cloisters
- The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
- By: Christopher I. Beckwith
- Narrated by: Doug Kaye
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using the recursive argument method. This highly distinctive and unusual method of disputation was a core feature of medieval science, the predecessor of modern science.
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Warriors of the Cloisters
- The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
- Narrated by: Doug Kaye
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-12-12
- Language: English
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Cosmic Bullsh*t
- A Guide to the Galaxy's Worst Life Hacks
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-03-25
- Language: English
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The Power of Life
- The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- By: Jessica Riskin
- Narrated by: Ellen Adair
- Length: 12 hrs
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The tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the world In the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first evolutionary theory of life and, with it, a new science: biology. Yet for...
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The Power of Life
- The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Narrated by: Ellen Adair
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 24-03-26
- Language: English
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Ptolemaic and Copernican
- By: Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein - foreword, Stillman Drake - preface
- Narrated by: Brian Keating, Carlo Rovelli, Lucio Piccirillo, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
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Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems compares the Copernican or Heliocentric system with the Ptolemaic or Peripatetic, system of the cosmos. Published in Florence in 1632, it resulted in him being tried before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, Galileo masterfully shows the truth of the Copernican system that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The Dialogue is one of the most important treatises ever written. A work of supreme clarity and accessibility, it remains as accessible now as when it was published.
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Ptolemaic and Copernican
- Narrated by: Brian Keating, Carlo Rovelli, Lucio Piccirillo, Fabiola Gianotti, S. James Gates, Frank Wilczek
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-04-22
- Language: English
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Hidden in the Heavens
- How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own
- By: Jason Steffen
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Are we alone in the universe? It's a fundamental question for Earth-dwelling humankind. Are there other worlds like ours, out there somewhere? In Hidden in the Heavens, Jason Steffen, a former scientist on NASA's Kepler mission, describes how that mission searched for planets orbiting Sun-like stars—especially Earth-like planets circulating in Earth-like orbits.
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Hidden in the Heavens
- How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 28-10-24
- Language: English
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Das Zeitalter der Unschärfe
- Die glänzenden und die dunklen Jahre der Physik (1895-1945)
- By: Tobias Hürter
- Narrated by: Frank Arnold
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Eine epische Geschichte der großen Zeit der Physik und ihrer leuchtenden Gestalten. Sie waren intellektuelle Abenteurer, Dandys oder Nerds, die tiefe Freundschaften und erbitterte Feindschaften miteinander verbanden. Die bedeutendsten Physiker und Physikerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts haben einen ungeahnten wissenschaftlichen Schub ausgelöst, der zu einem neuen Weltbild der Physik führte, welches sich uns bis heute nicht vollständig erschließt. Doch das Zeitalter der Relativitätstheorie und der Quantenmechanik war auch das Zeitalter von Kriegen und Revolutionen.
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Das Zeitalter der Unschärfe
- Die glänzenden und die dunklen Jahre der Physik (1895-1945)
- Narrated by: Frank Arnold
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-11-21
- Language: German
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Max Planck: The Life and Legacy of the Influential German Physicist Who Pioneered Quantum Theory
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Discover the the life and accomplishments of Max Planck, theoretical physicist whose revolutionary discovery of energy quanta and formulation of fundamental quantum theory allowed for countless others to expand on the knowledge of atomic processes.
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Max Planck: The Life and Legacy of the Influential German Physicist Who Pioneered Quantum Theory
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-11-18
- Language: English
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Booster Shots
- The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
- By: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Narrated by: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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A pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the antivaccine movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemic Every single child diagnosed with measles represents a system failure—an inexcusable unforced error. The technology to prevent essentially...
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Booster Shots
- The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
- Narrated by: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-02-25
- 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
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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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Brilliant Blunders
- From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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We all make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists. Each made groundbreaking contributions to his field - but each also stumbled badly. These five scientists expanded our knowledge of life on Earth, the evolution of the Earth itself, and the evolution of the universe, despite and because of their errors. As Mario Livio luminously explains, the scientific process advances through error.
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Brilliant Blunders
- From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-05-13
- Language: English
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El mapa fantasma
- La EPIDEMIA que cambió la ciencia, las ciudades y el mundo moderno
- By: Steven Johnson, Cristina Mbarichi Lumu - translator
- Narrated by: Bern Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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En El mapa fantasma se cuenta la historia de la aterradora epidemia de cólera que envolvió Londres en 1854 y sus dos héroes poco probables: el anestesista doctor John Snow y el afable clérigo, el reverendo Henry Whitehead, quienes derrotaron la enfermedad mediante una combinación de...
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El mapa fantasma
- La EPIDEMIA que cambió la ciencia, las ciudades y el mundo moderno
- Narrated by: Bern Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 21-03-23
- Language: Spanish
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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
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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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- 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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A Sense of the Mysterious
- Science and the Human Spirit
- By: Alan Lightman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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In these brilliant essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth portraits of some of the great geniuses of our time, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Thoughtful, beautifully written, and wonderfully original, A Sense of the Mysterious confirms Alan Lightman's unique position at the crossroads of science and art.
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Great book
- By Kristijan on 23-04-23
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A Sense of the Mysterious
- Science and the Human Spirit
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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Engineering America
- The Life and Times of John A. Roebling
- By: Richard Haw
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 28 hrs and 33 mins
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John Roebling was one of the 19th century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831, where he became wealthy and acclaimed, eventually receiving a carte-blanche contract to build one of the 19th century's most stupendous and daring works of engineering: a gigantic suspension bridge to span the East River between New York and Brooklyn.
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Engineering America
- The Life and Times of John A. Roebling
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 28 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 29-12-20
- Language: English
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Darwin's House of Cards
- A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates
- By: Tom Bethell
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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In this provocative history of contemporary debates over evolution, veteran journalist Tom Bethell depicts Darwin's theory as a 19th-century idea past its prime, propped up by logical fallacies, bogus claims, and empirical evidence that is all but disintegrating under an onslaught of new scientific discoveries. Bethell presents a concise yet wide-ranging tour of the flash points of modern evolutionary theory. Bethell's account is enriched by his own personal encounters with of some of our era's leading scientists and thinkers.
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A great trove of quotes
- By Pink Pearl on 20-08-21
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Darwin's House of Cards
- A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-06-19
- Language: English
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