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Eve
- The Disobedient Future of Birth
- By: Claire Horn
- Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Scientific research is on the cusp of being able to grow babies outside human bodies, from machines, for the very first time. Claire Horn takes us on a truly radical and urgent deep dive into the most challenging and pertinent questions of our age. Could artificial wombs allow women to redistribute the work of gestating? How do we protect reproductive and abortion rights? And who exactly gets access to this technology, in our vastly unequal world?
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Eve
- The Disobedient Future of Birth
- Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-03-23
- Language: English
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Nine Pints
- A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
- By: Rose George
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don’t even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquitousness, the few tablespoons of blood discharged by 800 million women are still regarded as taboo: menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event.
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overall good
- By PLaurent on 26-10-19
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Nine Pints
- A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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These Strange New Minds
- How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
- By: Christopher Summerfield
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Thanks to recent advances in AI, humans have entered a world where we are no longer the sole custodians of knowledge. A new wave of disarmingly human-like chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Claude and Bard, appear to be able to talk and reason like us - and are beginning to transform everything we do. It is vital we understand how they work. Can AI ‘think’, 'know' and ‘understand’? What are its values? Whose biases is it perpetuating? Can it lie and if so, could we tell? Does their arrival threaten our very existence?
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These Strange New Minds
- How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 06-03-25
- Language: English
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Expressly Human
- Decoding the Language of Emotion
- By: Mark Changizi, Tim Barber
- Narrated by: Mark Changizi
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve to be so emotionally expressive—to be us? The answer, as evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most important language—one that allows us, as social animals, to engage in highly sophisticated communications and negotiations.
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Expressly Human
- Decoding the Language of Emotion
- Narrated by: Mark Changizi
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 26-07-22
- Language: English
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The Scientific Attitude
- Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
- By: Lee McIntyre
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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In this book, Lee McIntyre argues that what distinguishes science from its rivals is what he calls "the scientific attitude" - caring about evidence and being willing to change theories on the basis of new evidence. The history of science is littered with theories that were scientific but turned out to be wrong; the scientific attitude reveals why even a failed theory can help us to understand what is special about science.
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Narrator’s accent too annoying to listen to.
- By CNY on 03-11-19
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The Scientific Attitude
- Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 17-05-19
- Language: English
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Rockets and Ray Guns
- The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War
- By: Andrew May
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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This entertaining account, offering a plethora of little known facts and insights from previously classified military projects, shows how the real-world science of the Cold War followed in the footsteps of SF - and how the two together changed our perception of both science and scientists, and paved the way to the world we live in today.
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Rockets and Ray Guns
- The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: The Science and Fiction Series
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 27-04-21
- Language: English
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The Science Delusion
- Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
- By: Curtis White
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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One of our most brilliant social critics - author of the best-selling The Middle Mind - presents a scathing critique of the "delusions" of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the "big" questions. With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer, you' re likely to become a subject of ridicule if you wonder "Why is there something instead of nothing?" or "What is our purpose on Earth?"
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The Science Delusion
- Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 21-07-14
- Language: English
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Science Denial
- Why It Happens and What to Do About It
- By: Gale Sinatra, Barbara Hofer
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children against childhood diseases, or practice social distancing during a pandemic? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions for the benefit of their health and wellbeing, as well as their communities, nations, and planet.
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Science Denial
- Why It Happens and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-10-21
- Language: English
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Un fauteuil sur la Seine. Quatre siècles d'histoire de France
- By: Amin Maalouf
- Narrated by: Yann Collette
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Amin Maalouf, élu au 29e fauteuil de l'Académie française et successeur de Claude Lévi-Strauss, compose les portraits des dix-huit grands hommes qui l'ont précédé, à travers l'évocation de leur histoire publique et privée, et nous fait revivre ainsi quatre siècles d'histoire de la nation française. Créée en 1634, l'Académie française fut le théâtre où se jouent, encore aujourd'hui, les enjeux culturels et scientifiques qui constituent "L'Esprit français" : la chambre d'écho des métamorphoses de la société et du pouvoir.
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Livre intéressant mais désagréable à écouter
- By Franck LEPELLETIER on 11-07-20
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Un fauteuil sur la Seine. Quatre siècles d'histoire de France
- Narrated by: Yann Collette
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-10-16
- Language: French
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Racism, Not Race
- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
- By: Joseph L. Graves Jr., Alan H. Goodman
- Narrated by: Jenn Lee, Cary Hite
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman explain the differences between social and biological notions of race. Although there are many meaningful human genetic variations, they do not map onto socially constructed racial categories. Drawing on evidence from both natural and social science, Graves and Goodman dismantle the malignant myth of gene-based racial difference.
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Racism, Not Race
- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
- Narrated by: Jenn Lee, Cary Hite
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 25-10-22
- Language: English
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Goethes Weltanschauung
- By: Rudolf Steiner
- Narrated by: Christian Clement
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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In Goethes Weltanschauung fasste Steiner die Ergebnisse seiner von 1883 bis 1897 sich erstreckenden Studien über Wesen und Bedeutung der naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften Goethes in einer bündigen und zugänglichen Weise zusammen. Steiner sah in Goethe einen wichtigen Vordenker, der in seiner Morphologie als erster eine dem Organischen angemessene Wissenschaftsmethode und damit die theoretischen Grundlagen seiner eigenen Anthroposophie entwickelt hatte.
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Goethes Weltanschauung
- Narrated by: Christian Clement
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: German
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The Science of Love
- Understanding the Psychology, Biology, and Future of Romantic Relationships
- By: Benjamin Boyle
- Narrated by: Rebecca Sands
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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In The Science of Love, listeners will embark on a journey of discovery into the complex and fascinating world of romantic relationships. Drawing on insights from psychology, neuroscience, biology, and cultural studies, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the factors that contribute to lasting love and intimacy.
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The Science of Love
- Understanding the Psychology, Biology, and Future of Romantic Relationships
- Narrated by: Rebecca Sands
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-05-23
- Language: English
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The New Atlantis
- By: Sir Francis Bacon
- Narrated by: Faith Wilson
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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The New Atlantis (1627) is a utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon in which he describes a vision of the future of human discovery, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humanity. The novel portrays a utopian world where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the dominant qualities of the inhabitants.
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The New Atlantis
- Narrated by: Faith Wilson
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-04-19
- Language: English
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Amazing Truths
- How Science and the Bible Agree
- By: Michael Guillen
- Narrated by: Michael Guillen
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Does science discredit the Bible, God, religious faith? Absolutely not, says Dr. Michael Guillen, former Harvard physics instructor and Emmy-winning ABC News science editor. In Amazing Truths, he uses his entertaining, down-to-earth storytelling skills to reveal 10 astonishing truths affirmed by both ancient Scripture and modern science.
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Amazing Truths
- How Science and the Bible Agree
- Narrated by: Michael Guillen
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 14-12-21
- Language: English
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All the Wonder That Would Be
- Exploring Past Notions of the Future
- By: Stephen Webb
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast - not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this audiobook is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use this as a prism through which to view current developments in science and technology.
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All the Wonder That Would Be
- Exploring Past Notions of the Future
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Series: The Science and Fiction Series
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-05-21
- Language: English
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Bring Back the King
- The New Science of De-extinction
- By: Helen Pilcher
- Narrated by: Helen Pilcher
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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If you could bring back one living being from the whole of the history of time, what would you choose? Comedian and former stem-cell biologist Helen Pilcher has thought about this problem - a lot. In Bring Back the King, Helen explains the cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real possibility and highlights her choices from eras gone by, from the king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley.
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Both fascinating and hopeful for the future.
- By Mrs S. on 03-03-21
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Bring Back the King
- The New Science of De-extinction
- Narrated by: Helen Pilcher
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 22-09-16
- Language: English
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A csodák logikája
- By: Mérő László
- Narrated by: Für Anikó
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Mérő László A csodák logikája című könyve - és az ez alapján készült hangoskönyvünk is - a világi csodákról szól, amelyek mára alapvetően megváltoztatták a gazdaságot. Egyre inkább hozzájuk kell igazítanunk a gondolkodásunkat és az oktatást is, amelyben a tudás konvertálásának a képessége lesz a lényeg.
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A csodák logikája
- Narrated by: Für Anikó
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 31-05-19
- Language: Hungarian
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Restless Devices
- Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age
- By: Felicia Wu Song
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Sociologist Felicia Wu Song has spent years considering the personal and collective dynamics of living in digital ecosystems. In this book she combines psychological, neurological, and sociological insights with theological reflection to explore two major questions: What kind of people are we becoming with personal technologies in hand? And who do we really want to be? Song unpacks the soft tyranny of the digital age, including the values embedded in our apps and the economic systems that drive our habits and their subtle yet pervasive effects.
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Restless Devices
- Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 30-11-21
- Language: English
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Building a Resilient Tomorrow
- How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
- By: Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Building a Resilient Tomorrow does not dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios, nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects.
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Building a Resilient Tomorrow
- How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 14-04-20
- Language: English
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Why Things Bite Back
- Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
- By: Edward Tenner
- Narrated by: Steve Kramer
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward Tenner offers a virtual encyclopedia of what he calls "revenge effects" - the unintended consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity that have been hallmarks of the progressive, improvement-obsessed modern age.
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Why Things Bite Back
- Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
- Narrated by: Steve Kramer
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 25-02-14
- Language: English
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