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The Periodic Table
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Eric R. Scerri
- Narrated by: Eric Scerri
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties, and divided into periodic trends. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Eric R. Scerri looks at the trends in properties of elements that led to the construction of the table and shows how the deeper meaning of the table's structure gradually became apparent with the development of atomic theory.
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The Periodic Table
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Eric Scerri
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2021
- Language: English
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Crush
- Close Encounters with Gravity
- By: James Riordon
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Gravity is at once familiar and mysterious. It's the reason for the numbers on your bathroom scale, the intricate dance of the stars and planets, and the evolution and eventual fate of the universe. In Crush, James Riordon takes listeners on a tour of gravity from its vanishing insignificance on the microscopic scale to its crushing extreme inside black holes.
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Crush
- Close Encounters with Gravity
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2025
- Language: English
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Vera Rubin
- A Life
- By: Jacqueline Mitton, Simon Mitton, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - foreword
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In Vera Rubin: A Life, Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton provide a detailed, accessible overview of Rubin's work, showing how she leveraged immense curiosity, profound intelligence, and novel technologies to help transform our understanding of the cosmos. But Rubin's impact was not limited to her contributions to scientific knowledge. She also helped to transform scientific practice by promoting the careers of women researchers. Not content to be an inspiration, Rubin was a mentor and champion for hiring women faculty and honoring them with awards historically exclusive to men.
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Vera Rubin
- A Life
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2022
- Language: English
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On Not Dying
- Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience
- By: Abou Farman
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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On Not Dying is an anthropological, historical, and philosophical exploration of immortality as a secular and scientific category. Based on an ethnography of immortalist communities - those who believe humans can extend their personal existence indefinitely through technological means - and an examination of other institutions involved at the end of life, Abou Farman argues that secular immortalism is an important site to explore the tensions inherent in secularism.
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On Not Dying
- Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2020
- Language: English
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How We Disappear
- A Personal History of Information
- By: Thomas S. Mullaney
- Narrated by: James D. Sasser
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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In this wide-ranging examination of the micro and macro, world-renowned scholar Thomas S. Mullaney reflects on the deaths of his parents, and on how human lives "disappear." Lyrical and poignant, his erudite, inspiring meditation offers eye-opening insight on the miracle of existence, and on what it means to forge meaning from a chaotic universe.
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How We Disappear
- A Personal History of Information
- Narrated by: James D. Sasser
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 23-06-2026
- Language: English
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In Search of Now
- The Science of the Present Moment
- By: Jo Marchant
- Narrated by: Jo Marchant
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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What is Now? This immediate moment, what we're experiencing right now . . . it bathes us like air, or gravity. Yet when we try to grasp this quality, to scrutinize it or bring it into focus, it vanishes, slipping through our fingers like a dream. And worse, according to the most trusted models of physics, Now doesn't even exist. If all this is so, then what, exactly, are we experiencing? How do we carve out time, sensation, self, and meaning from a blank, Now-less canvas?
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In Search of Now
- The Science of the Present Moment
- Narrated by: Jo Marchant
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 17-03-2026
- Language: English
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Thinking Like a Human
- The Power of Your Mind in the Age of AI
- By: David Weitzner PhD
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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AI is at the forefront of everyone's minds: from students and artists, to CEO's and service workers. But what exactly is AI, and how does it influence our everyday lives? And more than that, what does it mean for our future? Is there a way for us to retain our "humanness" in a world ever-reliant on tech? This groundbreaking book argues that the key technology we use to make strategic, political, and ethical decisions is flawed.
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Thinking Like a Human
- The Power of Your Mind in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2025
- Language: English
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Not Just for the Boys
- Why We Need More Women in Science
- By: Athene Donald
- Narrated by: Julia Anthony
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Not Just For the Boys looks back at how society has historically excluded women from the scientific sphere and discourse, what progress has been made, and how more is still needed. Athene Donald, herself a distinguished physicist, explores societal expectations during both childhood and working...
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Not Just for the Boys
- Why We Need More Women in Science
- Narrated by: Julia Anthony
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 31-03-2026
- Language: English
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Unvaccinated Under God
- Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America
- By: Kira Ganga Kieffer
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 11 hrs
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Vaccine hesitancy in America didn't begin with the uproar over the mRNA vaccines for Covid-19. The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries saw resistance to a wide variety of vaccines. In Unvaccinated Under God, Kira Ganga Kieffer shows that debates over vaccine safety and mandatory vaccination were about more than diseases or injections. Kieffer argues that vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. should be understood as religious expression—not as the product of scientific misinformation.
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Unvaccinated Under God
- Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 19-05-2026
- Language: English
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Parascientific Revolutions
- The Science and Culture of the Paranormal (Proximities)
- By: Derek Lee
- Narrated by: Asa Siegel
- Length: 10 hrs
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Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely dismissed as nonsense, but what can an exploration of such pseudoscientific phenomena tell us about accepted scientific and cultural thought? In Parascientific Revolutions, Derek Lee traces...
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Parascientific Revolutions
- The Science and Culture of the Paranormal (Proximities)
- Narrated by: Asa Siegel
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 31-03-2026
- Language: English
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Comet Madness
- How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
- By: Richard J. Goodrich
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs
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Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial superstitions, proving that Newtonian mechanics rather than the will of the gods brought comets into our celestial neighborhood. Despite this scientific advance, when Halley's Comet returned in 1910, newspapers gleefully provoked a global hysteria that unfolded with tragic consequences. Richard J. Goodrich examines the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet and the ensuing frenzy sparked by media manipulation, bogus science, and outright deception.
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Comet Madness
- How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 06-06-2023
- Language: English
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Drawing Out Leviathan
- Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (Life of the Past Series)
- By: Keith M. Parsons
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One side argues that science is a "social construct," that it does not discover facts about the world, but rather constructs artifacts disguised as objective truths. This view threatens the authority of science and rejects science's claims to objectivity, rationality, and disinterested inquiry. Drawing Out Leviathan examines this argument in the light of some major debates about dinosaurs.
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Drawing Out Leviathan
- Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (Life of the Past Series)
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2022
- Language: English
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Patrons of Paleontology
- How Government Support Shaped a Science (Life of the Past Series)
- By: Jane P. Davidson
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In this book, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed.
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Patrons of Paleontology
- How Government Support Shaped a Science (Life of the Past Series)
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-10-2022
- Language: English
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Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
- How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels
- By: Stephen B. Heard PhD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the 18th century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes. This charming, informative, and accessible history examines the fascinating stories behind taxonomic nomenclature, from Linnaeus himself naming a small and unpleasant weed after a rival botanist to the recent influx of scientific names based on pop-culture icons-including David Bowie's spider, Frank Zappa's jellyfish, and Beyonce's fly.
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Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
- How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2020
- Language: English
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Women in Science
- Then and Now
- By: Vivian Gornick
- Narrated by: Madelyn Buzzard
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In this revised 25th-anniversary edition, acclaimed writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists, compares their experiences then and now, and shows that, although not much has changed in the world of science, what is different is women's expectations that they can and will succeed.
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Women in Science
- Then and Now
- Narrated by: Madelyn Buzzard
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-04-2021
- Language: English
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The Probiotic Planet
- Using Life to Manage Life
- By: Jamie Lorimer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal health. In this ambitious and original work, Jamie Lorimer offers a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches and an insightful critique of their promise and limitations.
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The Probiotic Planet
- Using Life to Manage Life
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-12-2020
- Language: English
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The Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- By: Joseph Mazur
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interaction. Listeners learn that, as a consequence of time's personal nature, a 48-hour journey on the Space Shuttle can feel shorter than a six-hour trip on the Soyuz capsule and that the Amondawa of the Amazon do not have ages.
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The Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-05-2020
- Language: English
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Building a Resilient Tomorrow
- How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
- By: Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Building a Resilient Tomorrow does not dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios, nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects.
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Building a Resilient Tomorrow
- How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2020
- Language: English
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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf
- How the Elements Were Named
- By: Peter Wothers
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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The iconic periodic table of the elements is now in its most satisfyingly elegant form. This is because all the "gaps" corresponding to missing elements in the seventh row, or period, have recently been filled and the elements named. But where do these names come from? For some, usually the most recent, the origins are quite obvious, but in others - even well-known elements such as oxygen or nitrogen - the roots are less clear. Here, Peter Wothers explores the fascinating and often surprising stories behind how the chemical elements received their names.
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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf
- How the Elements Were Named
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 28-07-2020
- Language: English
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A Meaning to Life
- By: Michael Ruse
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today? For centuries, the question of the meaning or purpose of human life was assumed by scholars and theologians to have a religious answer: Life has meaning because humans were made in the image of a good god. In the 19th century, however, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution changed everything - and the human organism was seen to be more machine than spirit.
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A Meaning to Life
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 31-05-2019
- Language: English
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