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Fact or Fiction
- Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair? These questions are a sample of the urban lore investigated in this audiobook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths. Drawing from Scientific American’s “Fact or Fiction” and “Strange But True” columns, we’ve selected 58 of the most surprising, fascinating, useful, and just plain wacky topics confronted by our writers over the years.
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Might appeal to some.
- By Binky on 28-08-23
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Fact or Fiction
- Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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Ask the Experts: Physics and Math
- The Ask the Experts Series, Book 1
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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For going on two decades, Scientific American’s “Ask the Experts” column has been answering reader questions on all fields of science. We’ve taken your questions from the basic to the esoteric and reached out to top scientists, professors, and researchers to find out why the sky is blue or whether we really only use 10 percent of our brains. Now, we’ve combed through our archives and have compiled some of the most interesting questions (and answers) into a series of books.
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Ask the Experts: Physics and Math
- The Ask the Experts Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Series: Ask the Experts
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 22-12-20
- Language: English
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The New Science of Healthy Aging
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Understanding why we age and how to prevent age-related physical and mental decline can help us to live in the moment and enjoy our health at any age. In this audiobook, we explore the latest thinking in why we age, strategies to help maintain good health, as well as research into the limits of human longevity.
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Very informative
- By Kindle Customer on 30-06-22
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The New Science of Healthy Aging
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 24-11-20
- Language: English
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Mind over Mood
- Understanding Anxiety and Depression
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson, Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Anxiety and depression are two of the most common conditions affecting mental health and overall quality of life, but there are tools for managing them. In this audiobook, we’ll explore how depression shows up in the brain, different manifestations of depression and anxiety, various talk therapies, technological innovations, lifestyle interventions, and more.
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Mind over Mood
- Understanding Anxiety and Depression
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson, Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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Fact or Fiction 2
- 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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The editors of Scientific American’s best-selling Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths return with Fact or Fiction 2: 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained. We cast an analytical eye on another collection of urban lore and cultural myths that persist so long in our collective consciousness they acquire a ring of truth. Who hasn’t heard the “five-second rule”, which insists that food dropped on the floor is safe to eat if it’s picked up within five seconds? How many of us have been told to “feed a cold, starve a fever"?
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😴 Boring book
- By pammy vallance on 23-04-23
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Fact or Fiction 2
- 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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HIV and AIDS
- A Global Health Pandemic
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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On June 5, 1981, the scientific community received a wake-up call from the CDC in the form of a terrible new illness that the world would soon know as AIDS. Three decades later, remarkable progress has been made, but much more remains to be understood and to be done. In this audiobook, we explore where the disease came from, how it works, how it spreads, the search for a vaccine, and cultural and sociological factors.
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HIV and AIDS
- A Global Health Pandemic
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-06-20
- Language: English
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Evolution
- The Human Odyssey
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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In this audiobook, The Human Odyssey, we explore the evolution of those characteristics that make us human. The first section looks at our family tree and why some branches survived and not others. Swings in climate are emerging as a factor in what traits succeeded and failed; meanwhile, DNA analyses show that Homo sapiens interbred with other human species, which played a key role in our survival.
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Great book
- By Kindle Customer on 07-01-23
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Evolution
- The Human Odyssey
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Music & the Brain
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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Neuroscientists have shown that music recruits nearly every area of the brain, fostering connections across different regions. In this book, we examine the latest imaging studies and discuss the effects of music on emotion, cognition, sensation, and motor function. This includes an examination of the brain’s anatomy when listening to or creating music, of music’s relationship to learning math and language skills, and of its role in promoting social connections and treating brain disorders and injuries.
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Music & the Brain
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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The Higgs Boson
- Searching for the God Particle
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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One of the biggest discoveries in physics, the quest for the Higgs boson demonstrates the value of a good theory. In July 2012, a Higgs-like particle was found near the energies scientists predicted. Now, armed with better evidence and better questions, the scientific process continues. In this audiobook, we’ve gathered our best reporting to explain that process - the theories, the search, the discovery, and the ongoing questions.
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Out of date nonsense
- By David on 01-10-21
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The Higgs Boson
- Searching for the God Particle
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 27-10-20
- Language: English
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Dinosaurs!
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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Terrible lizards. That’s what the word dinosaurs means. Yet dinosaurs are not true lizards, and they are not necessarily terrible, either. Paleontologists have overturned many misconceptions, and in Dinosaurs!, we look at what the latest research tells us and what we still have to learn about these endlessly fascinating creatures.
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Great content, robotic delivery.
- By Jean the Bean on 02-08-21
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Dinosaurs!
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 26-01-21
- Language: English
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AI and Genius Machines
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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In science fiction, artificial intelligence takes the shape of computers that can speak like people, think for themselves, and sometimes act against us. Reality of course is vastly different, though in many ways computers surpass their fictional counterparts. This book reviews work in the field and covers topics from chess-playing to quantum computing. The writers tackle how to make computers more powerful, how we define consciousness, what the hard problems are, and even how computers might be built once the limits of silicon chips have been reached.
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AI and Genius Machines
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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The Microbiome
- Your Inner Ecosystem
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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We harbor roughly the same number of microbes as we have cells. This complex ecosystem is crucial to our health, affecting many processes including immunity, child development, and bone density regulation. Research in this area has exploded, and in this audiobook, we highlight some of the most exciting work on how the microbiome develops, its influence on brain and behavior, and implications in both contributing to and treating various disorders.
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Collection of interesting old articles
- By Richard on 24-03-23
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The Microbiome
- Your Inner Ecosystem
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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Fragile Brain
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s affect an estimated one in six Americans and are increasing in incidence as the population ages. In this audiobook, we examine these and other conditions involving the damage and loss of neurons, including other forms of dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Fragile Brain
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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Ultimate Physics
- From Quarks to the Cosmos
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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The fundamental outlines of the physical world, from its tiniest particles to massive galaxy clusters, have been apparent for decades. Does this mean physicists are about to tie it all up into a neat package? Not at all. Just when you think you’re figuring it out, the universe begins to look its strangest, and this book illustrates how answers often lead to more questions and open up new paths to insight.
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Ultimate Physics
- From Quarks to the Cosmos
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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Martin Gardner
- The Magic and Mystery of Numbers
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs
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How many people achieve a cult following because of their writing in mathematics? Only a handful, and Martin Gardner is among the most well-known and well-loved. Not only did he present a notoriously difficult subject in an engaging and accessible way, but in doing so, he attracted an incredibly broad readership. His “Mathematical Games” column in Scientific American ran nearly every month for 26 years and was one of the most popular in the magazine’s history.
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Martin Gardner
- The Magic and Mystery of Numbers
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 22-12-20
- Language: English
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Seeking the Multiverse
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Instead of “what if the South won the Civil War?” cosmologists ask, “what if the constants that make up the fundamental building blocks of physics were different?” Physicists argue that any slight change to the laws of physics would mean a disruption in the evolution of the universe - and our existence. With the many factors that had to align for us to exist, it can seem like the laws of physics might seem finely tuned to make our existence possible. Instead of a supernatural or divine explanation, this book explores the possibility is that our universe isn’t the only one.
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Seeking the Multiverse
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 31-03-20
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Brain
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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The sense of position and movement is often called the sixth sense; the brain’s connection to the immune system might be a seventh. In this audiobook, we examine the diverse functions of the brain beyond the five senses, including the glymphatic system for maintaining brain health, the processes behind intuition, and new research raising questions about “brain death.”
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learning of previously unknown knowledge.
- By Alex M on 10-02-24
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Secrets of the Brain
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 29-12-20
- Language: English
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Ask the Experts: Astronomy
- The Ask the Experts Series, Book 2
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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The second title in our series - Astronomy - looks skyward and explains a variety of universal phenomena and theories. Are you curious about how planets acquire rings or what creates those gorgeous spiral arms around galaxies? Or maybe you want to know why the Big Bang didn’t collapse into a black hole. Astrophysicists, professors, and scientists tackle questions about stars, planets, asteroids, galaxies, and nebulae, the expanding universe as well as the oddities - black holes, wormholes, and dark matter.
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Ask the Experts: Astronomy
- The Ask the Experts Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Series: Ask the Experts
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 24-11-20
- Language: English
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Science Quickly
- By: Scientific American
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Host Rachel Feltman, alongside leading science and tech journalists, dives into the rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show.
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The Future of Energy
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Since the Industrial Revolution, our civilization has depended on fossil fuels for energy - first it was coal; then petroleum. If business as usual continues, we are looking at a world where sea levels will be high enough to submerge many coastal cities and extreme weather events like 2012’s Hurricane Sandy are the new normal. In this audiobook, The Future of Energy: Earth, Wind, and Fire, we review the energy problem and analyze the options from the mundane to the far out.
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The Future of Energy
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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