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Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics
- The bestselling guide to our universe
- By: Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode, Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook includes forewords read by the authors, Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert. The International Bestseller 'Ambitious . . . pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics - New Scientist 'A physics book unlike any other. The scope, depth and artistry are breathtaking' – John Preskill...
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Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics
- The bestselling guide to our universe
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode, Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Anaximander
- And the Nature of Science
- By: Carlo Rovelli, Marion Lignana Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. In this elegant work, acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander's overlooked legacy to modern science. He examines Anaximander as a scientist interested in shedding light on the deep nature of scientific thinking, which Rovelli locates in his rebellious ability to reimagine the world again and again.
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Cleverly Challenging
- By William on 28-12-24
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Anaximander
- And the Nature of Science
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 23-02-23
- Language: English
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The Infinity Machine
- Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
- By: Sebastian Mallaby
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company Even by the...
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The Infinity Machine
- Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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A Little History of Everything
- From the Big Bang to You
- By: Tim Coulson
- Narrated by: Tim Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Tim Coulson – Professor of Zoology at Oxford – takes us back to the beginning of everything: the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. From there, he leads us step by step along the path to the most astonishing thing we have yet encountered – the staggering complexity of the modern human mind. Covering physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, the emergence of life, evolution, consciousness and the rise of humankind, yet written to be understood by anyone with a child’s curiosity, this book takes the biggest story of all and tells it simply, grippingly and, above all, entertainingly.
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A Little History of Everything
- From the Big Bang to You
- Narrated by: Tim Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Traversal
- By: Maria Popova
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 22 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In Traversal, Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness: what makes a body a person? Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with these questions - our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems - through the intertwined lives, loves and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history, people born into the margins of their time and place who lived to write the future: Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Fanny Wright.
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Traversal
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 22 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 12-03-26
- Language: English
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Fragile Lives
- A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
- By: Stephen Westaby
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT’S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he’s worked on. Grim Reaper sits on the...
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What a book, what a man
- By Ruth Nixon on 01-05-17
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Fragile Lives
- A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-02-17
- Language: English
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The Invisible Rainbow
- A History of Electricity and Life
- By: Arthur Firstenberg
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before - from an environmental point of view - by detailing the effects that this fundamental societal building block has had on our health and our planet.
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At must read for all
- By Kalpna B. on 29-08-21
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The Invisible Rainbow
- A History of Electricity and Life
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 13-08-21
- Language: English
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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- By: Brian Christian
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases. Algorithms decide bail and parole - and appear to assess black and white defendants differently. We can no longer assume that our mortgage application, or even our medical tests, will be seen by human eyes. And autonomous vehicles on our streets can injure or kill.
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Learnt 12% of what AI A Guide For Humans offered
- By Nigel Warburton on 15-10-21
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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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The Quantum Rules
- How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life
- By: Kunal K. Das
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The Quantum Rules applies the laws of physics to explain everything from relationships and human nature to the effects of globalization. It achieves the impossible task of making quantum physics deeply relevant to all listeners - even those with no interest in science. With a lively and engaging tone, author Kunal Das ponders the underlying truths and patterns in our shared and common life experiences, using insights derived from the fundamental laws of physics.
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Insightful
- By amazoncustomer on 23-09-22
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The Quantum Rules
- How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-07-15
- Language: English
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The Frontiers of Knowledge
- What We Know About Science, History and The Mind
- By: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Richard Goulding
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5% of the...
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An incredible book
- By Liza79 on 19-05-21
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The Frontiers of Knowledge
- What We Know About Science, History and The Mind
- Narrated by: Richard Goulding
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-05-21
- Language: English
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The Meaning of it All
- Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
- By: Richard P. Feynman
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several of the ultimate questions of science. What is the nature of the tension between science and religious faith? Why does uncertainty play such a crucial role in the scientific imagination? Is this really a scientific age?
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Inspired, but demanding
- By Marc on 14-11-11
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The Meaning of it All
- Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 18-07-07
- Language: English
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In Search of Now
- The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment
- By: Jo Marchant
- Narrated by: Jo Marchant
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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We feel that the present is everything; all we can know. Yet physics finds no universal ’now’. To explore what a moment really is, In Search of Now draws on state-of-the-art discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, cosmology and quantum physics, revealing a dynamic, creative process in which we all play a part.
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In Search of Now
- The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment
- Narrated by: Jo Marchant
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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Indistinguishable from Magic: How Science Shapes Our Future
- Science and Cosmos
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Ewan James Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Across centuries, humanity has not abandoned wonder but translated it, replacing incantations with equations and rituals with methods, without dissolving the astonishment that once animated myth and faith. What appears today as advanced science often occupies the same psychological and cultural space once reserved for miracles.
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Indistinguishable from Magic: How Science Shapes Our Future
- Science and Cosmos
- Narrated by: Ewan James Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-04-26
- Language: English
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The Internet of Us
- Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
- By: Michael P. Lynch
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promises to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age. We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips, we no...
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The Internet of Us
- Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 21-03-16
- Language: English
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The Knife Man
- The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
- By: Wendy Moore
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly feared. From humble origins, John Hunter rose...
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The Knife Man
- The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-04-15
- Language: English
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Chasing Venus
- The Race to Measure the Heavens
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a...
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Chasing Venus
- The Race to Measure the Heavens
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-05-12
- Language: English
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything
- The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
- By: David N. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of...
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Wonderful story- especially if you like physics
- By Brian on 23-02-18
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything
- The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-12-17
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Gravity
- The Quest to Understand the Force That Explains Everything
- By: Marcus Chown
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world, yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognised and described, yet it is the least understood. It is a 'force' that keeps your feet on the ground, yet no such force actually exists. Gravity, to steal the words of Winston Churchill, is 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. And penetrating that enigma promises to answer the biggest questions in science: what is space? What is time? What is the universe? And where did it all come from?
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Interesting and graspable
- By Ron on 10-04-17
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The Ascent of Gravity
- The Quest to Understand the Force That Explains Everything
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-04-17
- Language: English
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Phantoms in the Brain
- Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
- By: Sandra Blakeslee, V. S. Ramachandran
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments - using such low-tech tools such as cotton swabs, glasses of water, and dime-store mirrors.
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next best thing to Oliver Sacks
- By Elena on 28-06-17
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Phantoms in the Brain
- Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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The Apocalypse Factory
- Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
- By: Steve Olson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize the enigmatic and deadly new material that would fuel atomic bombs.
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Disappointing narration
- By ligsy on 26-03-22
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The Apocalypse Factory
- Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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