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Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
- By: Gregory J. Gbur
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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The question of how falling cats land on their feet has intrigued humans since at least the middle of the 19th century. In this playful and eye-opening history, physicist, and cat parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to understand the cat-righting reflex have provided crucial insights into puzzles in mathematics, geophysics, neuroscience, and human space exploration....
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Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2019
- Language: English
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Midnight's Machines: A Political History of Technology in India
- By: Arun Mohan Sukumar
- Narrated by: Gaurav Marwahi
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Every Prime Minister of independent India has guided, if not personally overseen, one prized portfolio: technology. If, in the early years, Nehru and his scientist-advisors retained an iron grip on it, subsequent governments created a bureaucracy that managed everything from the country's crown...
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Midnight's Machines: A Political History of Technology in India
- Narrated by: Gaurav Marwahi
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2020
- Language: English
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Vitamin C
- A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
- By: Stephen M. Sagar MD
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Vitamin C begins with scurvy, which afflicted Europe for four hundred years and killed millions. The reasons that a disease whose cure was known from the outset persisted over that time are at once baffling and familiar, and these trials eventually lead to invention of the science of epidemiology. Author Stephen M. Sagar MD then chronicles the discovery of vitamins at the beginning of the twentieth century, a story that encapsulates the rise of a scientific approach to nutrition but with surprising twists and turns.
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Vitamin C
- A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2022
- Language: English
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Human Evolution: The History of the Evolution and Natural Selection Processes That Gave Rise to Modern Humans
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Ever since the human mind developed the capacity for thought, people have pondered not just the meaning of life, but the genesis of the world, the universe, and all the natural marvels and precious forms of life within it. To this day, all of these intricate subjects continue to be matters of great contention, and they are often best encapsulated in the debate between creationism and evolution. On the one hand are those who are adamant that it was God, or some other supreme being, that designed and crafted every detail of the universe.
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Human Evolution: The History of the Evolution and Natural Selection Processes That Gave Rise to Modern Humans
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-04-2018
- Language: English
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The 4th Revolution
- How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
- By: Luciano Floridi
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. As the boundaries between life online and offline break down, and we become seamlessly connected to each other and surrounded by smart, responsive objects, we are all becoming integrated into an "infosphere".
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The 4th Revolution
- How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 25-11-2014
- Language: English
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- By: Arthur Allen
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed - refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples - causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl.
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
- How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-07-2014
- Language: English
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Pope Francis
- From the End of the Earth to Rome
- By: The Staff of The Wall Street Journal
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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On March 13, the cardinals of the Catholic Church, gathered to elect a successor to a living Pope for the first time in 600 years, announced a dramatic shift. By elevating Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina to become Pope Francis the 266th Pontiff, the cardinals were naming the...
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Pope Francis
- From the End of the Earth to Rome
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2013
- Language: English
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Present at the Creation
- Discovering the Higgs Boson
- By: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and...
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Present at the Creation
- Discovering the Higgs Boson
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2010
- Language: English
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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
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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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The Essential Einstein: Public Writings
- By: Albert Einstein, Diana Kormos Buchwald, Tilman Sauer
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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The Essential Einstein: Public Writings presents a rich selection of Einstein's humanistic writings drawn from a diverse array of materials he sanctioned for publication during his lifetime. Distinct from previous collections, this incisive book presents previously excerpted works in their entirety, including key articles, lectures, and speeches.
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The Essential Einstein: Public Writings
- Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-09-2025
- Language: English
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Mask of the Sun
- The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
- By: John Dvorak
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex". They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and at least eight times in the Bible. Columbus used them to trick people, while Renaissance painter Taddeo Gaddi was blinded by one. Sorcery was banished within the Catholic Church after astrologers used an eclipse to predict a pope's death.
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Mask of the Sun
- The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2017
- Language: English
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- By: Sharon Weinberger
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s original mission was to create “the unimagined weapons of the...
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 14-03-2017
- Language: English
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Jump!
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- By: Daniel Engber
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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It was early February 1912, and Franz Reichelt, a Paris tailor, and Rodman Law, a self-described “professional jackass” from New York, were poised, respectively, on the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty, ready to deploy an experimental parachute. In bat wings and bundled linen, they were almost certain their contraptions would work. Here is the tale of their inspirations and their pluck - and what happened next.
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- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Series: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2019
- Language: English
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Seven Ages of Science
- A BBC Radio 4 History of Science in Britain
- By: Lisa Jardine
- Narrated by: Lisa Jardine
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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In Britain, we're sometimes inclined to think of science as happening far away from us - in labs or universities or even in the past - and having little impact on our lives. In this groundbreaking series, Lisa Jardine weaves science back into the everyday by showing how the concerns of scientists have always been the concerns of us all. Starting in Restoration England, we travel through seven ages to examine Britain's unparalleled contribution to science.
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Seven Ages of Science
- A BBC Radio 4 History of Science in Britain
- Narrated by: Lisa Jardine
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2020
- Language: English
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How History Gets Things Wrong
- The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
- By: Alex Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong as Ptolemaic astronomy. We no longer believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Why do we still believe in historical narrative? Our attachment to history as a vehicle for understanding has a long Darwinian pedigree and a genetic basis.
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How History Gets Things Wrong
- The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2019
- Language: English
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Crisis Averted
- The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
- By: Caitlin Rivers PhD
- Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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“Readers should come away from Crisis Averted with a better comprehension of what public health does and why it is such a crucial endeavor.” —The Washington Post "A master class in how we can pinpoint and prevent health crises before they spiral out of control."—Scott Gottlieb, MD...
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Crisis Averted
- The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
- Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2024
- 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
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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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Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688-1815
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Josh Albert
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain’s expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways.
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Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688-1815
- Narrated by: Josh Albert
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2018
- Language: English
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Louis Pasteur: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary French Scientist Recognized as the Father of Microbiology
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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While it would be impossible to name every individual who has contributed to the ever-advancing field of science, it almost goes without saying that one of the most important was Louis Pasteur, father of microbiology and modern immunology. Apart from propelling the field of vaccination to new heights, this visionary scientist would also revolutionize a significant part of the beverage industry, and highlight the importance of sterilization. These are only some of the extraordinary achievements on Louis' glaring résumé, one so well-rounded and extensive that it beggars belief.
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Disappointing
- By Simon McDonald on 04-04-2024
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Louis Pasteur: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary French Scientist Recognized as the Father of Microbiology
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2018
- Language: English
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Rocket Girl
- The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
- By: George D. Morgan, Ashley Stroupe
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls rarely dreamed of a career in science, Mary wanted to be a chemist. A decade later, the dreams of these two disparate individuals would coalesce in ways neither could have imagined.
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Rocket Girl
- The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-08-2017
- Language: English
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