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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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Unvaccinated Under God
- Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America
- By: Kira Ganga Kieffer
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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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
- Unabridged
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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
- Unabridged
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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 Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- By: Joseph Mazur
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf
- How the Elements Were Named
- By: Peter Wothers
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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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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The Impossible Bomb
- The Hidden History of British Scientists and the Race to Create an Atomic Weapon
- By: Gareth Williams
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement—but scientists working in Britain played a vital role in its development. Including Nobel Prize winners and Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, these scientists have long since been forgotten. But without their expertise, Robert Oppenheimer's research at Los Alamos would never have succeeded. Gareth Williams unearths the true story of the top-secret British atomic program, codenamed "Tube Alloys," established in 1940.
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The Impossible Bomb
- The Hidden History of British Scientists and the Race to Create an Atomic Weapon
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-11-2025
- Language: English
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Subjected to Science
- Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
- By: Susan E. Lederer
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.
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Subjected to Science
- Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2024
- Language: English
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Monkey to Man
- The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
- By: Gowan Dawson
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We are all familiar with the "march of progress," the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching.
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Monkey to Man
- The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2024
- Language: English
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Insulin
- A Hundred-Year History
- By: Stuart Bradwel
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Bradwel reminds us that the centenary of this apparent "wonder drug" should be no cause for celebration. Insulin often remains inaccessible to those who need it most: elusive prescriptions, uneven availability and sky-high prices result in rationing and desperate do-it-yourself research and development. In the face of bootstraps rhetoric and "Pharma Bro" capitalists, patients across the world are left to fend for themselves. There is a long way to go in the twenty-first century until insulin truly fulfills the extraordinary promises made by its discovery.
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Insulin
- A Hundred-Year History
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-02-2024
- Language: English
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The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
- By: Ersilia Vaudo, Vanessa Di Stefano - translator
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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When Neil Armstrong first set foot in the lunar dust, the Earth held its breath. That one small step forever changed our view of what was possible, sparking a dramatic expansion of humankind's cosmic awareness. When we gain a new perspective, a transformation begins, profoundly altering the understanding of the world our human experience had previously granted us.
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The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-06-2025
- Language: English
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Now Is the Time to Collect
- Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896
- By: Paul D. Brinkman
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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After the extinction of the dodo and Carolina parakeet and the collapse of the American bison population, naturalists expected many more vulnerable species to die out with spread of industrialization. This triggered a race to collect rare species of animals expected soon to be lost forever. Established in 1893, Chicago's Field Museum aimed to become a global center of study. Zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot persuaded museum patrons to fund an immediate expedition to British Somaliland (contemporary Somalia). There, his team hunted and killed hundreds of animals for the growing collection.
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Now Is the Time to Collect
- Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 17-12-2024
- Language: English
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