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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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The Lost Tribe
- By Joanne McInnes on 29-03-2018
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How Emotions Are Made
- The Secret Life of the Brain
- By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology....
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Groundbraking, but useless
- By J on 14-11-2021
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- By: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....
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Inspiring
- By Dirk Bertels on 21-03-2017
By: David Deutsch
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....
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Amazing book
- By Toby on 28-06-2018
By: Carl Sagan
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A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- By: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....
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very informative but also calming
- By Olivia on 22-05-2023
By: Andrew H. Knoll
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The Big Picture
- On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
- By: Sean Carroll
- Narrated by: Sean Carroll
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Listeners learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level - and then how each connects to the other....
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Sean's done it again 😁
- By Kindle Customer on 07-07-2020
By: Sean Carroll
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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The Lost Tribe
- By Joanne McInnes on 29-03-2018
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How Emotions Are Made
- The Secret Life of the Brain
- By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology....
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Groundbraking, but useless
- By J on 14-11-2021
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- By: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....
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Inspiring
- By Dirk Bertels on 21-03-2017
By: David Deutsch
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....
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Amazing book
- By Toby on 28-06-2018
By: Carl Sagan
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A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- By: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....
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very informative but also calming
- By Olivia on 22-05-2023
By: Andrew H. Knoll
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The Big Picture
- On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
- By: Sean Carroll
- Narrated by: Sean Carroll
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Listeners learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level - and then how each connects to the other....
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Sean's done it again 😁
- By Kindle Customer on 07-07-2020
By: Sean Carroll
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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.
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Highlights the important foundational questions
- By Pukar on 04-06-2025
By: Brian Christian
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The Immortal Mind
- A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul
- By: Michael Egnor, Denyse O'Leary
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Engaging, thought-provoking, and groundbreaking, The Immortal Mind shows here that some aspect of who we are is spiritual and immortal, transcending the physical body.
By: Michael Egnor, and others
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Free Will
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality.....
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genuinely thought provoking
- By Angelina Russo on 25-05-2016
By: Sam Harris
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The Frontiers of Knowledge
- What We Know About Science, History and the Mind - And How We Know It
- By: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Richard Goulding
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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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....
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Excellent
- By Declan on 24-10-2022
By: A. C. Grayling
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Stiff
- The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- By: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....
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A down to earth, thought provoking discussion
- By Michael on 09-06-2016
By: Mary Roach
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Vital Organs
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....
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Great stories, great delivery
- By Kim on 24-05-2025
By: Suzie Edge
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
- By: Richard P. Feynman
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....
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Much recommended
- By Daniel Madden on 28-09-2017
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I Am a Strange Loop
- By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
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One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others....
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The Enchiridion:
- Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
- By: Epictetus, James Harris
- Narrated by: Jason Sprenger
- Length: 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The Enchiridion or Manual of Epictetus (Enchiridion is Greek for "that which is held in the hand") is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice. This manual has been carefully adapted in to modern English to allow for easy listening. Enjoy....
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Epictetus shares many valuable ideas
- By Daniel Harrison on 05-06-2020
By: Epictetus, and others
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Atomic Accidents
- A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
- By: James Mahaffey
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....
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outstanding, interesting, scary, revealing
- By Anonymous on 02-02-2024
By: James Mahaffey
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Merchants of Doubt
- How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
- Narrated by: Liza Seneca
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Merchants of Doubt tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades....
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Important information
- By Anonymous on 04-05-2024
By: Naomi Oreskes, and others
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Ripples in Spacetime
- Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
- By: Govert Schilling, Martin Rees
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors....
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amazing book!!!!
- By Amazon Customer on 06-01-2020
By: Govert Schilling, and others
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Galileo
- By: J. L. Heilbron
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a "hurried little masterpiece" in John Heilbron's words....
By: J. L. Heilbron
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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....
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very well researched, interesting, and concerning
- By Anonymous on 23-04-2022
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
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Darwin and Dawkins, what’s not to love?
- By Anonymous on 23-03-2018
By: Charles Darwin
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Existential Physics
- A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
- By: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Narrated by: Gina Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation....
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Very informative
- By Anonymous on 25-08-2024
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Return of the God Hypothesis
- Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
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The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....
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A book that will stand the test of time.
- By Anonymous on 20-09-2021
By: Stephen C. Meyer
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....
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ONWARDS AND UPWARDS
- By chimene on 29-04-2017
By: Steven Pinker
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Stealing Fire
- How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We LIve and Work
- By: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....
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The whole book could fit in a chapter
- By Mr. G. Trabakoulas on 12-10-2017
By: Steven Kotler, and others
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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i was expecting a little more
- By fabio boschetti on 31-10-2024
By: Vaclav Smil
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Signature in the Cell
- DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
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This controversial and compelling audiobook from Dr. Stephen C. Meyer presents a convincing new case for intelligent design based on revolutionary discoveries in science and DNA....
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Clear comprehensive compelling
- By Mark Fitzmaurice on 05-02-2024
By: Stephen C. Meyer
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Mind and Cosmos
- Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
- By: Thomas Nagel
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value....
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An important challenge to the current orthodoxy
- By Anonymous on 06-10-2019
By: Thomas Nagel
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An Elegant Defense
- The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
- By: Matt Richtel
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system - the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind audiobook, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives....
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wonderful
- By greg quinn on 05-05-2019
By: Matt Richtel
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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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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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One of best books I've listened to
- By Damon Rutherford on 23-07-2023
By: Dagogo Altraide
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Consciousness and the Probability Clock
- Where Do Thoughts Come From?
- By: Chris Reynolds MD
- Narrated by: J. D. Roberts
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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In this bold and interdisciplinary journey through neuroscience, theoretical physics, and artificial intelligence, neurologist Dr. Chris Reynolds proposes a revolutionary model of consciousness: the Probability Clock. At the heart of this model lies the thalamus—a central brain structure long known for relaying sensory input. But in Reynolds’ view, the thalamus does far more: it recursively filters, times, and shapes experience itself.
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Sans transition
- Une nouvelle histoire de l'énergie
- By: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Lemire
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Voici une histoire radicalement nouvelle de l'énergie qui montre l’étrangeté fondamentale de la notion de transition. Elle explique comment matières et énergies sont reliées entre elles, croissent ensemble, s’accumulent et s’empilent les unes sur les autres. Pourquoi la notion de transition énergétique s’est-elle alors imposée ? Comment ce futur sans passé est-il devenu, à partir des années 1970, celui des gouvernements, des entreprises et des experts, bref, le futur des gens raisonnables ?
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The Shape of Wonder
- How Scientists Think, Work, and Live
- By: Alan Lightman, Martin Rees
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In this captivating, insightful book, acclaimed physicists Alan Lightman and Martin Rees illuminate the life and work of numerous scientists in order to demystify the scientific process and show that scientists are concerned citizens, just like the rest of us.
By: Alan Lightman, and others
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Free Creations of the Human Mind
- The Worlds of Albert Einstein
- By: Diana Kormos Buchwald, Michael D. Gordin
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein presents a concise and nuanced account of Einstein's life and work embedded in his intellectual and social contexts. His life is interconnected with so many of the important political and intellectual movements of his era—Zionism, pacifism, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, civil rights, McCarthyism, the League of Nations, and substantial discoveries in epochal theories of special relativity and quantum theory.
By: Diana Kormos Buchwald, and others
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Discovered, Not Designed
- Building Things in the Age of Complexity
- By: Sean McClure
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This book argues that we are entering an age where humanity must build truly complex things to continue our progress. This means learning to build as nature builds, and as it turns out, forces us to redefine knowledge and skill, and more broadly our scientific and engineering paradigm.
By: Sean McClure
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The Death Ray
- The History and Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Nikola Tesla’s Futuristic Weapon
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Nikola Tesla was one of history’s greatest scientists, and though he is best known for his pioneering work with electricity, the fact that he is mostly remembered solely for that actually does a disservice to his legacy.
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Consciousness and the Probability Clock
- Where Do Thoughts Come From?
- By: Chris Reynolds MD
- Narrated by: J. D. Roberts
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In this bold and interdisciplinary journey through neuroscience, theoretical physics, and artificial intelligence, neurologist Dr. Chris Reynolds proposes a revolutionary model of consciousness: the Probability Clock. At the heart of this model lies the thalamus—a central brain structure long known for relaying sensory input. But in Reynolds’ view, the thalamus does far more: it recursively filters, times, and shapes experience itself.
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Sans transition
- Une nouvelle histoire de l'énergie
- By: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Lemire
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Voici une histoire radicalement nouvelle de l'énergie qui montre l’étrangeté fondamentale de la notion de transition. Elle explique comment matières et énergies sont reliées entre elles, croissent ensemble, s’accumulent et s’empilent les unes sur les autres. Pourquoi la notion de transition énergétique s’est-elle alors imposée ? Comment ce futur sans passé est-il devenu, à partir des années 1970, celui des gouvernements, des entreprises et des experts, bref, le futur des gens raisonnables ?
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The Shape of Wonder
- How Scientists Think, Work, and Live
- By: Alan Lightman, Martin Rees
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In this captivating, insightful book, acclaimed physicists Alan Lightman and Martin Rees illuminate the life and work of numerous scientists in order to demystify the scientific process and show that scientists are concerned citizens, just like the rest of us.
By: Alan Lightman, and others
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Free Creations of the Human Mind
- The Worlds of Albert Einstein
- By: Diana Kormos Buchwald, Michael D. Gordin
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein presents a concise and nuanced account of Einstein's life and work embedded in his intellectual and social contexts. His life is interconnected with so many of the important political and intellectual movements of his era—Zionism, pacifism, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, civil rights, McCarthyism, the League of Nations, and substantial discoveries in epochal theories of special relativity and quantum theory.
By: Diana Kormos Buchwald, and others
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Discovered, Not Designed
- Building Things in the Age of Complexity
- By: Sean McClure
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This book argues that we are entering an age where humanity must build truly complex things to continue our progress. This means learning to build as nature builds, and as it turns out, forces us to redefine knowledge and skill, and more broadly our scientific and engineering paradigm.
By: Sean McClure
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The Death Ray
- The History and Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Nikola Tesla’s Futuristic Weapon
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Nikola Tesla was one of history’s greatest scientists, and though he is best known for his pioneering work with electricity, the fact that he is mostly remembered solely for that actually does a disservice to his legacy.