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Starborn
- How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)
- By: Roberto Trotta
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history For as long as humans have lived, we have lived beneath the stars. But under the glow of today’s artificial lighting, we have lost the intimacy our ancestors once shared with the cosmos. In Starborn, cosmologist Roberto Trotta...
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Starborn
- How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-11-23
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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The Glass Cage
- Automation and Us
- By: Nicholas Carr
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Glass Cage, bestselling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Even as they bring ease to our lives, these programs are stealing something essential from us.
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Rich in detail and depth
- By Matthew Hermon on 07-12-20
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The Glass Cage
- Automation and Us
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-09-14
- Language: English
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More Damned Lies and Statistics
- How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
- By: Joel Best
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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More Damned Lies and Statistics encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes, create fear, and advance particular points of view. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues: missing numbers are relevant but overlooked; confusing numbers bewilder when they should inform; scary numbers play to our fears about the present and the future.
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More Damned Lies and Statistics
- How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 20-08-14
- Language: English
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The Next Great Migration
- The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
- By: Sonia Shah
- Narrated by: Sonia Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting - predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change.
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Well told and we'll researched.
- By Anonymous on 15-05-21
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The Next Great Migration
- The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
- Narrated by: Sonia Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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The Misinformation Age
- How False Beliefs Spread
- By: Cailin O’Connor, James Owen Weatherall
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In an age riven by "fake news," "alternative facts," and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, the authors argue that social factors, not individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the persistence of false belief and that we must know how those social forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively.
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I had to work hard at ...
- By Ian on 20-08-24
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The Misinformation Age
- How False Beliefs Spread
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 18-09-19
- Language: English
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Science Stories
- The complete BBC Radio 4 popular science series
- By: Naomi Alderman, Kevin Fong, Tracey Logan, and others
- Narrated by: Naomi Alderman, Philip Ball
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In these ten absorbing series, award-winning authors Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball and guest presenters Tracey Logan, Kevin Fong, Simon Schaffer and Lindsey Fitzharris take a look at the many amazing events and characters from science's long history. In this collection, which runs close to 23...
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Science Stories
- The complete BBC Radio 4 popular science series
- Narrated by: Naomi Alderman, Philip Ball
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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Nuclear Russia
- The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
- By: Paul R. Josephson
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Nuclear Russia probes the juncture of history of science and technology, political and cultural history, and environmental history. It considers the atom in Russian society as a reflection of Leninist technological utopianism, Cold War imperatives, scientific hubris, public acceptance, and a state desire to conquer nature. Furthermore the audiobook examines the vital – and perhaps unexpected – significance of ethnicity and gender in nuclear history by looking at how Kazakhs and Nenets lost their homelands and their health in Russia in the wake of nuclear testing.
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Nuclear Russia
- The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 22-12-22
- Language: English
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Mythopedia
- A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore
- By: Adrienne Mayor, Michele M. Angel - illustrator
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Mythopedia is a fun, fact-filled A-Z treasury of myths inspired by natural events. Bringing together fifty legends from antiquity to the present, this delightfully entertaining book takes you around the world to explore sunken kingdoms and lost cities, accursed mountains and treacherous terrains, and lethal lakes and singing sand dunes, explaining the historical background and latest science underlying each tale.
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Mythopedia
- A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-10-25
- Language: English
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The Newton Papers
- The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts
- By: Sarah Dry
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When Isaac Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left behind a wealth of papers that, when examined, gave his followers and his family a deep sense of unease. Some of what they contained was wildly heretical and alchemically obsessed, hinting at a Newton altogether stranger and less palatable than the one enshrined in Westminster Abbey as the paragon of English rationality. These manuscripts had the potential to undermine not merely Newton's reputation, but that of the scientific method he embodied.
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Nothing about Newton
- By Adrian Le Monnier on 28-03-17
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The Newton Papers
- The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-01-15
- Language: English
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Losing the Nobel Prize
- A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
- By: Brian Keating
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang. Millions around the world tuned in to the announcement broadcast live from Harvard University, immediately igniting rumors of an imminent Nobel Prize. But had these cosmologists truly read the cosmic prologue or, swept up in Nobel dreams, had they been deceived by a galactic mirage?
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Cringe, cope and some good science parts
- By Martin Kocisek on 03-07-23
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Losing the Nobel Prize
- A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-09-18
- Language: English
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British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Sir Isaac Newton
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jannie Meisberger
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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In 1676, Sir Isaac Newton famously wrote in a letter to philosopher Robert Hooke, "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants." By the time he died, Newton had become science's greatest giant, and every scientist who has followed him has stood on his shoulders. Newton is widely considered the most influential scientist in history, best known for the discovery of gravity and the subsequent laws of motion that he theorized.
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British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Sir Isaac Newton
- Narrated by: Jannie Meisberger
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-06-15
- Language: English
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Le Moyen Age : La France de la guerre de Cent Ans
- Histoire de France 3
- Narrated by: Claude Gauvard
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 21-01-13
- Language: French
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ColdFusion Presents
- New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World
- By: Dagogo Altraide
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The world has never been so unstable. Now, more than ever, we need to understand our history, learn from our mistakes, and embrace science and technology as we push into the future. In his debut book, New Thinking: The Technology and Science That Transformed Our World, Dagogo Altraide of YouTube's ColdFusion breaks down the history of gamechanger breakthroughs in the world of science and technology that have shaped our modern world and will impact the future.
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Great book!
- By Amazon Customer on 31-05-19
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ColdFusion Presents
- New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 26-02-19
- Language: English
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Thinking Like a Human
- The Power of Your Mind in the Age of AI
- By: David Weitzner PhD
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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AI is at the forefront of everyone's minds: from students and artists, to CEO's and service workers. But what exactly is AI, and how does it influence our everyday lives? And more than that, what does it mean for our future? Is there a way for us to retain our "humanness" in a world ever-reliant on tech? This groundbreaking book argues that the key technology we use to make strategic, political, and ethical decisions is flawed.
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Thinking Like a Human
- The Power of Your Mind in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-04-25
- Language: English
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They Made America
- From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine - Two Centuries of Innovators
- By: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer
- Narrated by: Harold Evans
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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An illustrated history of American innovators—some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating—by the author of the bestselling The American Century. The real inventor of the steam engine. The creator of the bra. The man who invented modern banking. The creator of the computer operating...
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A must read for all, especially The AMERICANS
- By Seayeaitch on 05-10-20
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They Made America
- From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine - Two Centuries of Innovators
- Narrated by: Harold Evans
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 20-10-04
- Language: English
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Chemistry 101
- A History of Reactions
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Length: 45 mins
- Unabridged
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From fire to fallout, potions to polymers — this is the story of how we figured out what everything is made of. Chemistry 101 isn’t your high school textbook. It’s a walkthrough of how humans turned mystery into mastery. You’ll meet alchemists chasing gold, scientists splitting atoms, and modern chemists designing synthetic realities out of carbon and code. Packed with stories, structure, and the messy human drive to mix, burn, and bottle the universe, this book walks you through the wild history of reactions — from ancient smelting pits to lab-grown meat and CRISPR edits.
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Chemistry 101
- A History of Reactions
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Series: How We Figured It Out, Book 10
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 20-11-25
- Language: English
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The Riddle of the Rosetta
- How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- By: Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology - that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on fresh archival evidence to provide a major new account of how the English polymath Thomas Young and the French philologist Jean-François Champollion vied to be the first to solve the riddle of the Rosetta.
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The Riddle of the Rosetta
- How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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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dull as ditch water
- 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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The Light Ages
- The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
- Narrated by: Seb Falk
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-11-20
- Language: English
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