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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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Bedeviled
- A Shadow History of Demons in Science
- By: Jimena Canales
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself. Scientists began to employ hypothetical beings to perform certain roles in thought experiments―experiments that can only be done in the imagination―and these impish assistants helped scientists achieve major breakthroughs that pushed forward the frontiers of science and technology.
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Bedeviled
- A Shadow History of Demons in Science
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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When the Sahara Was Green
- How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
- By: Martin Williams
- Narrated by: Dr. Mike Wells
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles, and hippos, and attracted prehistoric hunters and herders. What transformed this land of lakes into a sea of sands?
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When the Sahara Was Green
- How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
- Narrated by: Dr. Mike Wells
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-10-21
- Language: English
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Elixir
- A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life
- By: Theresa Levitt
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Elixir tells the story of Edouard Laugier and Auguste Laurent, the son of a perfumer and a fellow aspiring chemist, who met on the Left Bank while pursuing their passion for science. Spurned by the scientific establishment, the pair ended up working out of Edouard's family perfume shop, Laugier père et fils. By day they prepared the revitalizing elixirs and rejuvenating eaux it was famous for, but by night using the ingredients of the perfumery and the principles of alchemy, they pursued the secret of life itself.
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Elixir
- A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 27-04-23
- Language: English
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What Should We Be Worried About?
- Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
- By: John Brockman
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford, Peter Berkrot, Antony Ferguson, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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John Brockman, editor of This Will Make You Smarter, presents his latest thought-provoking audiobook, featuring insights from leading thinkers such as Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, Matt Ridley, and Daniel C. Dennett. Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about - and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. Encompassing neuroscience, economics, philosophy, physics, psychology, biology, and more - here are 150 ideas that will revolutionize your understanding of the world.
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A flashback read from our dystopian Trump era
- By Pepperpurple on 02-08-18
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What Should We Be Worried About?
- Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford, Peter Berkrot, Antony Ferguson, Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-02-14
- Language: English
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Beyond Uncertainty
- Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb
- By: David C. Cassidy
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg’s role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In Beyond Uncertainty, Cassidy interprets this and other previously unknown material within the context of his vast research and tackles the vexing questions of a scientist’s personal responsibility and guilt when serving an abhorrent military regime.
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Beyond Uncertainty
- Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 28-03-14
- Language: English
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Short Circuiting Policy
- Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
- By: Leah Cardamore Stokes
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar laws or clean up its electricity system. Examining clean energy laws in Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and Ohio over 30 years Stokes argues that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why states are not on track to address the climate crisis.
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Stakeholder Management
- By SteveN on 06-07-21
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Short Circuiting Policy
- Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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The ABC of Relativity
- By: Bertrand Russell
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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The ABC of Relativity is still considered today, nearly 90 years after its first appearance, as an authoritative and accessible introduction to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. While there's nothing particularly easy about understanding the Theory of Relativity, many have found that Russell's explanation is easier to understand than Einstein's own writings on the topic. Russell covers topics such as time dilation and curved space-time, using non-scientific examples of train travel and aerial views of the terrain.
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The ABC of Relativity
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Evolution
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Robin Dunbar
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior - who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures - and greatly impacts modern advancements in medicine and conservation biology. Perhaps its most important claim for science is its ability to provide an overarching framework that integrates the many life sciences into a single unified whole. Yet, evolution has been, and continues to be, regarded with suspicion by many.
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Best book on evolution
- By Jiri Chaloupka on 18-07-23
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Evolution
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest
- The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
- By: Doug Macdougall
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecting biological samples, the expedition laid the foundations for modern oceanography. Following the ship's naturalists and their discoveries, earth scientist Doug Macdougall engagingly tells a story of Victorian-era adventure and ties these early explorations to the growth of modern scientific fields.
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An excellent read
- By Martin Oetiker on 03-11-23
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Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest
- The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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Evolution Talk
- The Who, What, Why, and How Behind the Oldest Story Ever Told
- By: Rick Coste
- Narrated by: Rick Coste
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Before Charles Darwin, other luminaries planted the seeds that would one day evolve into the theory that would make him famous. Author Rick Coste begins by shining a spotlight on the writers, philosophers, and scientists who planted the seeds that would blossom into the theory of evolution by natural selection, from Aristotle’s big ideas to young Mary Anning’s discovery of the first ichthyosaur skeleton. After exploring the contributions of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, Evolution Talk investigates the very beginnings of life itself.
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Superb account of evolution and the history of it.
- By Adam Sheardown on 31-10-22
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Evolution Talk
- The Who, What, Why, and How Behind the Oldest Story Ever Told
- Narrated by: Rick Coste
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 15-10-22
- Language: English
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Good Enough
- The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- By: Daniel S. Milo
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Why is the genome of a salamander 40 times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? In this lively and wide-ranging meditation on the curious accidents and unexpected detours on the path of life, Daniel Milo argues that we ask these questions because we’ve embraced a faulty conception of how evolution - and human society - really works.
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Good Enough
- The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-06-19
- Language: English
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Discourse on Method and the Meditations
- By: René Descartes
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, and this soon came to replace the traditional techniques derived from Aristotle.
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Discourse on Method and the Meditations
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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The New Organon
- By: Francis Bacon
- Narrated by: Matthew Coles
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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The New Organon is the second part of Bacon's philosophical work, The Great Instauration on the renewal of the sciences, which was published in 1620. The title refers to Aristotle's work Organon - meaning “trumpeter” - a treatise on logic and syllogism. Bacon’s work offers a new method of investigating nature, named “the Interpretation of Nature”.
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Brilliant writing, terrible reading
- By Cressida Monroe on 28-06-20
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The New Organon
- Narrated by: Matthew Coles
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-12-19
- Language: English
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Think
- Why You Should Question Everything
- By: Guy P. Harrison
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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This fresh and exciting approach to science, skepticism, and critical thinking will enlighten and inspire listeners of all ages. With a mix of wit and wisdom, it challenges everyone to think like a scientist, embrace the skeptical life, and improve their critical thinking skills. Think shows you how to better navigate through the maze of biases and traps that are standard features of every human brain.
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Everyone needs to be more sceptical
- By Ava on 14-08-23
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Think
- Why You Should Question Everything
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 23-04-14
- Language: English
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The Department of Mad Scientists
- Inside DARPA, the Path-Breaking Government Agency You've Never Heard Of
- By: Michael Belfiore
- Narrated by: Michael Belfiore
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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The first-ever inside look at DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless cars
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The Department of Mad Scientists
- Inside DARPA, the Path-Breaking Government Agency You've Never Heard Of
- Narrated by: Michael Belfiore
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-10-09
- Language: English
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Invisibility
- The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
- By: Gregory J. Gbur
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. He explores the history of invisibility and its science and technology connections.
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Invisibility
- The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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God After Einstein
- What’s Really Going On in the Universe?
- By: John F. Haught
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs
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Before the early 20th century, scientists and theologians knew almost nothing about time’s enormity and the corresponding immensity of space. But after Einstein, cosmology offers theology a whole new way of looking at the ageless questions about matter, time, God, cosmic purpose, and the significance of our lives. The universe need no longer be thought of simply as an endless reshuffling of lifeless and mindless atoms in a pointless series of moments.
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God After Einstein
- What’s Really Going On in the Universe?
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 15-03-22
- Language: English
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The Evolutionary Edge
- A BBC Radio 4 Nature Series
- By: Lucy Cooke
- Narrated by: Lucy Cooke
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Award-winning broadcaster, best-selling author and zoologist Lucy Cooke has produced and presented numerous natural history shows on TV and radio, and has been tipped by The Times as 'the next David Attenborough'. In this BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast under the title The Power Of..., she delves into the animal kingdom, exploring what gives certain species the evolutionary edge over their rivals.
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The Evolutionary Edge
- A BBC Radio 4 Nature Series
- Narrated by: Lucy Cooke
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-05-22
- Language: English
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Time Machine Tales
- The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
- By: Paul J. Nahin
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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This audiobook contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author’s earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no tech notes filled with algebra, integrals, and differential equations, as there are in the first and second editions of Time Machines.
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Time Machine Tales
- The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Series: The Science and Fiction Series
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-07-21
- Language: English
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