Showing results by publisher "Milkyway Media" in Science & Engineering
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Summary of Richard Rhodes’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Milkyway Media
- By: Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Richard Webb
- Length: 29 mins
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Richard Rhodes’ 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb narrates the years preceding the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. It focuses on how a group of international physicists uncovered nature’s potential for destruction through advances in nuclear physics and quantum theory. They harnessed the power of physics to develop the first atomic bombs.... (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)
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- By Andy Holland on 17-10-2019
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Summary of Richard Rhodes’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Richard Webb
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2018
- Language: English
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Analysis of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile
- By: Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Susan Murphy
- Length: 11 mins
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Antifragile (2012) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, introduces and explains hormesis, or the way that some systems benefit from the chaos and stress that normally would destroy fragile things. Any cohesive system of cooperators or processes composed of smaller participating actors, from the human body to the stock market, can be fragile, robust, or antifragile.
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Analysis of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile
- Narrated by: Susan Murphy
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2017
- Language: English
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Summary of Adam Higginbotham's Midnight in Chernobyl by Milkyway Media
- By: Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 29 mins
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster (2019) explains how government bureaucracy, blind patriotism, and scientific ignorance led to one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in human history. Using records, interviews, and first-person accounts from those who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, journalist and author Adam Higginbotham explores the minutes and hours leading up to the explosion of the plant’s fourth nuclear reactor, as well as the months and years following the accident....
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A basic but useful overview
- By Anonymous User on 03-06-2020
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Summary of Adam Higginbotham's Midnight in Chernobyl by Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2019
- Language: English
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Summary of David Wallace-Wells's The Uninhabitable Earth by Milkyway Media
- By: Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Richard Webb
- Length: 26 mins
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Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more about The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (2019) in which science journalist David Wallace-Wells uses the latest scientific research to construct a portrait of how climate change will affect life on Earth, and what humanity can do to mitigate it. For decades, climate change has been treated as a theoretical but distant problem, something that will only affect future generations.
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Summary of David Wallace-Wells's The Uninhabitable Earth by Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Richard Webb
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2019
- Language: English
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Summary of Judea Pearl's The Book of Why by Milkyway Media
- By: Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Adrienne Walker
- Length: 35 mins
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (2018) explores an underutilized science called causal inference, a tactic that mimics humanity’s natural ability to determine a cause by observing an effect. By employing causal inference, scientists are able to mathematically determine the causes and effects of a given phenomenon.... (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)
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Summary of Judea Pearl's The Book of Why by Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Adrienne Walker
- Length: 35 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2018
- Language: English
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Analysis of Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire by Milkyway Media
- By: Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Michael Hathcote
- Length: 25 mins
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001) examines the intricate evolutionary relationship between plant cultivation and human desire. Author Michael Pollan explores this relationship by recounting the history of four plants that have been cultivated to meet four distinct human needs… Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)
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Analysis of Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire by Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Michael Hathcote
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2018
- Language: English
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Analysis of Chris Hadfield’s An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Eart
- By: Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Conner Goff
- Length: 21 mins
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything (2013) by Chris Hadfield tells the Canadian astronaut's life story and offers practical life advice based on his professional experience. Hadfield demonstrates how the unusual way in which astronauts work is surprisingly applicable to everyday life. Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.
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Analysis of Chris Hadfield’s An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Eart
- Narrated by: Conner Goff
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 16-02-2018
- Language: English
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Analysis of Scott Kelly’s Endurance
- By: Milkyway Media
- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 23 mins
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Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery (2017) by Scott Kelly is the memoir of a retired American astronaut who spent nearly a year on the International Space Station (ISS) starting in 2015. Alternating between scenes from the ISS and the story of his life, Scott describes the emotional and physical demands as well as the many rewards of being an astronaut.
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Analysis of Scott Kelly’s Endurance
- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2018
- Language: English
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