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The Origin Story: Eko-PodcastBrought to you by Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad & EkoGalaxy​- in collaboration with Roundglass SustainIn this 5-part ​series – we ​l​isten to giants in the field, who have walked the uncharted path and done right by ​t​he beautiful biodiversity of our shared planet.How did they come to be? What were their early connections with the natural world? And what are some of the lessons for the rest of us? We bring you... The Origin Story.This series is created in the hope that we live in, and leave, a planet –​ that is more just, more joyful & more diverse ...

Former Baykeeper Michael Herz loves San Francisco Bay and spent decades defending it from polluters. Kate Josephs learned to love it from 3,000 miles away, as Mike told her story after story during a long sojourn in Maine. When the Bay pulled them back, they moved onto a trawler in Pablo Bay. Now they're collecting and sharing stories that celebrate what they call one of most extraordinary bodies of water on earth.From shipwrecks and whale migrations to hippies, fish stories, courtroom battles, and secret CIA vessels, ONCE UPON A BAY invites listeners to dive into the natural and human history...

The Quantum Leap is a visionary podcast exploring how Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing are fundamentally transforming the science, technology, and business of pharmaceuticals. Hosted by Dr. Nirdosh Jagota, a globally recognized biotech leader with over three decades of regulatory, quality, and strategic experience, this series moves beyond compliance to examine the platforms, partnerships, and scientific breakthroughs shaping the future of medicine. From AI-native pharma companies and end-to-end autonomous drug discovery to digital twins, self-driving laboratories, and quantum ...

This podcast is basically my brain on a mic. I’m trying to understand why humans, with all our intelligence, continue to create problems bigger than ourselves. Climate change. Extinction. Tech that moves faster than our morals. Progress that feels like a race with no finish line. Architects of Our Own Chaos is me breaking that down, through stories, science, and honest thinking. Sometimes serious. Sometimes dramatic. Always curious. I’m not here to preach. I’m here to explore. And maybe get a little uncomfortable along the way.

Thrilling tales of people and the wild.Join me, Michelle Douglass, wildlife producer and natural history super-fan, as we uncover the juiciest, strangest and most gripping true stories from our planet’s past.From perilous polar expeditions and extreme survival stories to animal myths, legends, and natural history’s heroes, villains and oddballs — each month we dive into one unforgettable true tale, and explore the social history behind it with an expert guest.The world is brilliantly beastly. Let’s explore. 🐾Discover more:Follow Beastly History on Insta @beastlyhistoryBeastly ...

O Grimório Botânico é o seu manual de conhecimento prático sobre o universo das plantas medicinais. A cada episódio, abrimos um capítulo para explorar a história milenar de cada espécie, suas aplicações tradicionais e como usar o poder de cura da natureza de forma eficaz. Descubra os segredos botânicos e o uso seguro das ervas mais poderosas no seu dia a dia.

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets “An irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heart-stopping adventure writing, and...

The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being "animal" and started being "human". In The Accidental Species, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion.

Perhaps the most influential science book ever written, On the Origin of Species has continued to fascinate for more than a century after its initial publication. Its controversial theory that populations evolve and adapt through a process known as natural selection led to heated scientific, philosophical, and religious debate, revolutionizing every discipline in its wake. With its clear, concise, and surprisingly enjoyable prose, On the Origin of Species is both captivating and edifying.

The nation's greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, The Peregrine. J. A. Baker's classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. Luminaries such as Ted Hughes, Barry Lopez and Andrew Motion have cited it as one of the most important books in 20th-century nature writing.

We use DNA routinely - to cure diseases, solve crimes, and reunite families. Yet we've known about it for only 60 years. And what we're continuing to learn about it every day has the potential to transform our health, our nutrition, our society, and our future. But what, exactly is DNA, the self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms?

A New York Times Bestseller! For millennia, Buddhists have enjoyed the limitless benefits of meditation. But how does it work? And why? The principles behind this ancient practice have long eluded some of the best minds in modern science. Until now. In this groundbreaking work, world-renowned...

Explore the world through its most unlikely creatures: Cryptozoology, the study of hidden, monstrous, and legendary animals, is truly the art of discovering the unknown. Richard Freeman, Zoological Director of Centre for Fortean Zoology, has explored the corners of the five continents on the search for creatures that many people believe are non-existent. In this book, he shares the exciting stories of his investigations of the Yeti, Mongolian Deathworm, Loch Ness Monster, Orang-Pendak, Ninki-Naka, and more.

Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archaeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows listeners to discover how the human genome provides not only all the information a human embryo needs to develop but also the hidden story of our species.

Kids love the ocean - it’s mysterious and unknown, home to monsters of the imagination and some of the most fascinating life forms on the planet. But while many grown-ups might love being by or on the sea, how much do we actually know about the world beneath the waves? In this follow-up to A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs, evolutionary biologist, Professor Ben Garrod, takes the listener on an oceanic journey from the beginning of life on Earth to the present day, discovering what the ocean actually is and why it’s so important in the evolutionary history of life.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bold futurist and renowned author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain. “This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought.”—Martine Rothblatt, chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics...

Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school Human Anatomy course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master the course.

The Ape That Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, our languages, and science? The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory.

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices.

Dung beetles might sound dirty, but the ancient Egyptians believed their god took the form of a dung beetle to roll the morning sun across the sky every day. In this episode, we roll with dung beetles around the world as they push their precious dung—often in balls many times larger than they are—over Florida pastures, Armenian highlands, and the vast South African savanna.