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The Big Book of Mars
- From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, a Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet
- By: Marc Hartzman
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Mars has been a source of fascination and speculation ever since the ancient Egyptians observed its blood-red hue and named it for their god of war and plague. But it wasn't until the 19th century when "canals" were observed on the surface of the Red Planet, suggesting the presence of water, that scientists, novelists, filmmakers, and entrepreneurs became obsessed with the question of whether there's life on Mars. The Big Book of Mars is the most comprehensive look at our relationship with Mars - yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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The Big Book of Mars
- From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, a Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2020
- Language: English
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Science Ideated
- The Fall of Matter and the Contours of the Next Mainstream Scientific Worldview
- By: Bernardo Kastrup
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Leading-edge empirical observations are increasingly difficult to reconcile with "scientific" materialism, with analytic idealism—the notion that reality, while equally amenable to scientific inquiry, is fundamentally mental—a leading contender to replace it. In this book, the broad body of empirical evidence and reasoning in favor of analytic idealism is reviewed in an accessible manner. The resulting argument anticipates a historically imminent transition to a scientific worldview that regards mind, not matter, as the ground of all reality.
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- By James Kalmakoff on 29-05-2023
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Science Ideated
- The Fall of Matter and the Contours of the Next Mainstream Scientific Worldview
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2022
- Language: English
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The Uranium Club
- Unearthing Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program
- By: Miriam E. Hiebert, Timothy W. Koeth - foreword
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Tim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly—he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor that Nazi scientists had tried—and failed—to build at the end of World War II. This unexpected gift, wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with a few cryptic but crucial lines, would launch Koeth, a nuclear physicist and professor, and his colleague Miriam Hiebert, a cultural heritage scientist, on an odyssey to trace the tale of these cubes.
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The Uranium Club
- Unearthing Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2023
- Language: English
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The History of Time
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Leofranc Holford-Strevens
- Narrated by: Ben Esner
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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Leofranc Holford-Strevens brings us this fascinating study of time using a range of examples from ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the leap year to the 1920s project for a fixed Easter. Those interested in time, history, and the development of the calendar will enjoy this absorbing exploration of an aspect of our lives that we all take for granted.
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The History of Time
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Ben Esner
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2021
- Language: English
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The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- By: Sherwin B. Nuland
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately - childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared - they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.
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The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2020
- Language: English
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Cosmic Bullsh*t
- A Guide to the Galaxy's Worst Life Hacks
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2025
- Language: English
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Three Laws of Nature
- A Little Book on Thermodynamics
- By: R. Stephen Berry
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory.
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Fresh Insight into Old Topic
- By John L. Luick on 30-04-2022
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Three Laws of Nature
- A Little Book on Thermodynamics
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2019
- 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
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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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The Misinformation Age
- How False Beliefs Spread
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 18-09-2019
- Language: English
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Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions
- Our Universe, from Quantum to the Cosmos
- By: Chris Ferrie, Geraint F. Lewis
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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In this thought-provoking exploration, physicists Chris Ferrie and Geraint F. Lewis delve into the fundamental questions that have puzzled humanity for centuries. With clarity and precision, Ferrie and Lewis navigate the realms of quantum physics, relativity, and cosmology, providing accessible explanations that engage both novices and enthusiasts.
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Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions
- Our Universe, from Quantum to the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 13-01-2026
- Language: English
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Evolution
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Robin Dunbar
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior - who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures - and greatly impacts modern advancements in medicine and conservation biology. Perhaps its most important claim for science is its ability to provide an overarching framework that integrates the many life sciences into a single unified whole. Yet, evolution has been, and continues to be, regarded with suspicion by many.
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Evolution
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-08-2020
- Language: English
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Charged
- A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
- By: James Morton Turner
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving "the battery problem" is critical to a clean energy transition. As climate activists focus on what a clean energy future will create the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building that future will consume. With new insight on the consequences for people and communities on the front lines, Turner draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a just and clean energy future, from the ground up.
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Charged
- A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2024
- Language: English
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In the Herbarium
- The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants
- By: Maura C. Flannery
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowing them to describe and differentiate species and to document and research plant changes and biodiversity over time—including changes related to climate. Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the earliest collections belonging to such advocates of the technique as sixteenth-century botanist Luca Ghini, to the collections of poets, politicians, and painters, and to the digitization today.
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In the Herbarium
- The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2023
- Language: English
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Origin of Life
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: David W. Deamer
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars. In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections.
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Origin of Life
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2020
- Language: English
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Waterfront Manhattan
- From Henry Hudson to the High Line
- By: Kurt C. Schlichting
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Author Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York's priceless asset. Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but presented the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entirely and sparking a battle between shipping companies, the railroads, and ferries for access to the waterfront.
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Waterfront Manhattan
- From Henry Hudson to the High Line
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-02-2019
- Language: English
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Dr. Calhoun's Mousery
- The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity
- By: Lee Alan Dugatkin
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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What began as a utopian environment, where mice had sumptuous accommodations, had all the food and water they could want, and were free from disease and predators, turned into a mouse hell. Science writer and animal behaviorist Lee Alan Dugatkin introduces listeners to the work of rodent researcher John Bumpass Calhoun. Dugatkin shows how an ecologist-turned-psychologist-turned-futurist became a science rock star embedded in the culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Dr. Calhoun's Mousery
- The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2025
- Language: English
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Flashes of Brilliance
- The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
- By: Anika Burgess
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous—and many of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and inventors behind them were memorable eccentrics. In Flashes of Brilliance, writer and photo editor Anika Burgess engagingly blends art, science, and social history to reveal the most dramatic developments in photography from its birth in the 1830s to the early twentieth century.
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Flashes of Brilliance
- The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2025
- Language: English
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The Arctic
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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In The Arctic, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North. They focus on its peoples, politics, environment, resource development, and conservation to provide critical information about how changes there can, and will, affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall explore how the Arctic's importance has grown over time, the region's role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic's governance.
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The Arctic
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 10-09-2019
- Language: English
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The History of Physics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: J.L. Heilbron
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? This audiobook introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians calculating the size of the Earth while their caliphs conquered much of it and more.
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The History of Physics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2018
- Language: English
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Impasse
- Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
- By: Roy Scranton
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet we get increasing emissions, divisive politics, and ersatz solutions that offer more of the same: more capitalism, more complexity, more "progress." The impasse we face is not only political and institutional, but cognitive, existential, and narrative. We're incapable of grasping the scale, speed, and impact of global warming. And we optimistically cling to a narrative that promises a better tomorrow if we just keep doing what we're doing.
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Impasse
- Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2026
- Language: English
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Astrotopia
- The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
- By: Mary-Jane Rubenstein
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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The best-known pioneers are selling different visions of the future: while Elon Musk and SpaceX seek to establish a human presence on Mars, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin work toward moving millions of earthlings into rotating near-Earth habitats. Despite these distinctions, these two billionaires share a core utopian project: the salvation of humanity through the exploitation of space. In Astrotopia, Mary-Jane Rubenstein pulls back the curtain on the not-so-new myths these space barons are peddling, like growth without limit, energy without guilt, and salvation in a brand-new world.
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Astrotopia
- The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2023
- Language: English
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