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Insulin
- A Hundred-Year History
- By: Stuart Bradwel
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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Bradwel reminds us that the centenary of this apparent "wonder drug" should be no cause for celebration. Insulin often remains inaccessible to those who need it most: elusive prescriptions, uneven availability and sky-high prices result in rationing and desperate do-it-yourself research and development. In the face of bootstraps rhetoric and "Pharma Bro" capitalists, patients across the world are left to fend for themselves. There is a long way to go in the twenty-first century until insulin truly fulfills the extraordinary promises made by its discovery.
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Insulin
- A Hundred-Year History
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-02-24
- Language: English
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Regenesis
- How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
- By: George M. Church, Ed Regis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying substantial portions of their genomes, allows for the creation of entirely new species of organisms. These technologies - far from the out-of-control nightmare depicted in science fiction - have the power to improve human and animal health, increase our intelligence, enhance our memory, and even extend our life span.
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More Daydreaming Less Science
- By Edluan on 09-10-22
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Regenesis
- How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 16-06-20
- Language: English
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Sleeping Beauties
- The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
- By: Andreas Wagner
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species—but there's a catch. Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive, constrained, modest, threatened. Then, in a blink of evolutionary time, they flourish spectacularly. Once we start to look, these 'sleeping beauties' crop up everywhere. But why? Looking at the book of life, from apex predators to keystone crops, and informed by his own cutting-edge experiments, renowned scientist Andreas Wagner demonstrates that innovations can come frequently and cheaply to nature, well before they are needed.
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Sleeping Beauties
- The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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The History of Physics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: J.L. Heilbron
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? This audiobook introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians calculating the size of the Earth while their caliphs conquered much of it and more.
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Ein gutes Überblick
- By Amazon Customer on 09-01-19
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The History of Physics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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The Story of Western Science
- From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Western Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves and guides us back to the masterpieces that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves.
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It's Ok
- By Claire Burbidge on 17-01-24
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The Story of Western Science
- From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 28-07-15
- 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
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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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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way...
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What a gem!
- By Fichops on 11-04-21
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 14-05-13
- Language: English
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Tuxedo Park
- A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
- By: Jennet Conant
- Narrated by: John Kroft
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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In the late 1930s, legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th century at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
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Tuxedo Park
- A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
- Narrated by: John Kroft
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 25-09-18
- Language: English
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- By: Arthur Allen
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed - refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples - causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl.
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Great book to place Fleck and others in context.
- By Sara on 15-07-22
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-07-14
- Language: English
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Climate Uncertainty and Risk
- Rethinking Our Response
- By: Judith Curry
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock.
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A laundry list of laundry lists
- By Richard Tol on 14-03-25
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Climate Uncertainty and Risk
- Rethinking Our Response
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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El error de Descartes
- La emoción, la razón y el cerebro humano
- By: Antonio Damasio, Joandomènec Ros - translator
- Narrated by: Roger Vidal
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Tras el éxito de Y el cerebro creó al hombre, Destino incorpora dos clásicos de Antonio Damasio. Publicado originalmente en 1994, El error de Descartes es un libro de referencia en la literatura sobre ciencia y filosofía. ¿Y cuál es el error de Descartes? Pues creer que la mente existe de...
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El error de Descartes
- La emoción, la razón y el cerebro humano
- Narrated by: Roger Vidal
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 14-03-25
- Language: Spanish
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NASA's Pioneer and Voyager Missions
- The History and Legacy of the First Space Probes to Explore the Outer Solar System and Beyond
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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Today, the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 "winning" the race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the solar system. Moreover, the notion that America "won" the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit.
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NASA's Pioneer and Voyager Missions
- The History and Legacy of the First Space Probes to Explore the Outer Solar System and Beyond
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 23-09-19
- Language: English
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Serendipity
- The Unexpected in Science
- By: Telmo Pievani, Michael Gerard Kenyon - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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How many times have we looked for something and found something else? A partner, a job, an object? The same thing often happens to scientists: they design an experiment and discover the unexpected, which usually turns out to be very important. This fascinating phenomenon is called serendipity, which takes its name from the mythical Serendip, a place from which, according to a Persian fable, three princes set off to explore the world, making chance discoveries along the way.
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Serendipity
- The Unexpected in Science
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-11-24
- 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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Don’t bother
- By Aldenbeads on 19-11-22
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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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The Consciousness of the Atom
- By: Alice A. Bailey
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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Thinkers everywhere are conscious of two things, first, that the region of mystery has never before been so clearly defined, and secondly, that that region can be entered more easily than has hitherto been the case; it may, therefore, perhaps be induced to render up some of its secrets if investigators of all schools pursue their search with determination.
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The Consciousness of the Atom
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-10-20
- Language: English
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Ignorance
- How It Drives Science
- By: Stuart Firestein
- Narrated by: David Copelin
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance - not knowledge - that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In fact, says Firestein, more often than not, science is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, and there may not be a cat in the room.
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Calling all Science Teachers!
- By Neil B on 23-05-20
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Ignorance
- How It Drives Science
- Narrated by: David Copelin
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-10-13
- Language: English
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A Series of Fortunate Events
- Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
- By: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrated by: Sean B. Carroll
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason, or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven by chance. A Series of Fortunate Events tells the story of the awesome power of chance and how it is the surprising source of all the beauty and diversity in the living world.
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Well delivered listen
- By Charles Oundo on 28-04-24
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A Series of Fortunate Events
- Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
- Narrated by: Sean B. Carroll
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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Crystal Fire
- The Birth of the Information Age
- By: Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson
- Narrated by: Dennis McKee
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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On December 16, 1947, two physicists at Bell Laboratories, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium half an inch long. The electrical power coming out of that piece of germanium was 100 times stronger than what went in. In that moment, the transistor was invented and the information age began. Crystal Fire recounts the story of the transistor team at Bell Labs, led by William Shockley, who shared the Nobel Prize with Bardeen and Brattain.
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excellent book, below average recording.
- By Jamrock on 16-11-24
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Crystal Fire
- The Birth of the Information Age
- Narrated by: Dennis McKee
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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Foco roubado: Os ladrões de atenção da vida moderna
- By: Johann Hari, Luis Reyes Gil
- Narrated by: Sydney Ferreira
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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BEST-SELLER DO NEW YORK TIMES E DO SUNDAY TIMES UM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DE 2022 PELA AMAZON, SPECTATOR E FINANCIAL TIMES Um caminho para entender o que está desviando a sua atenção e como recuperá-la. Durante três anos, o jornalista e escritor best-seller internacional Johann Hari fez uma jornada para descobrir as razões por trás da diminuição do nosso tempo de atenção. Ele entrevistou os maiores especialistas mundiais em foco e descobriu que tudo o que pensamos sobre o assunto está equivocado. Achamos que nossa incapacidade de focar é uma falha pessoal, mas não é.
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Foco roubado: Os ladrões de atenção da vida moderna
- Narrated by: Sydney Ferreira
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-05-25
- Language: Portuguese
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Every Life Is on Fire
- How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
- By: Jeremy England
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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A preeminent physicist unveils a field-defining theory of the origins and purpose of life. Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And everything that is alive traces back to things that, puzzlingly, weren't. For centuries, the scientific question of life's origins has confounded...
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Religion not science
- By Redd on 14-04-22
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Every Life Is on Fire
- How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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