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Why Things Bite Back
- Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
- By: Edward Tenner
- Narrated by: Steve Kramer
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward Tenner offers a virtual encyclopedia of what he calls "revenge effects" - the unintended consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity that have been hallmarks of the progressive, improvement-obsessed modern age.
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Why Things Bite Back
- Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
- Narrated by: Steve Kramer
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2014
- Language: English
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Reinventing Discovery
- The New Era of Networked Science
- By: Michael Nielsen
- Narrated by: Nicholas Tecosky
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the first book about how the internet is transforming the nature of our collective intelligence.
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Reinventing Discovery
- The New Era of Networked Science
- Narrated by: Nicholas Tecosky
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2012
- Language: English
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Tyrannosaurus Sue
- The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T-Rex Ever Found
- By: Steve Fiffer
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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In 1990, Peter Larson, with his team of commercial fossil hunters from the Black Hills Institute, discovered the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen in history. He dubbed it "Sue" after the field paleontologist who first saw it sticking out of a sandstone cliff on the ranch of Maurice Williams, a Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe member in South Dakota's badlands. Because the skelton was 90% complete, its study promised to yield up priceless information on the life and habits of the T Rex.
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Tyrannosaurus Sue
- The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T-Rex Ever Found
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2008
- Language: English
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Nothing
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Frank Close
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This short, smart book tells you everything you need to know about "nothing". What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - "nothing" - exist? To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research, illuminating the story of how scientists have explored the void and the rich discoveries they have made there.
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The Crowd & the Cosmos
- Adventures in the Zooniverse
- By: Chris Lintott
- Narrated by: Chris Lintott
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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The world of science has been transformed. Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations, praying for clear skies, now they have no need to budge from their desks, as data arrives in their inbox. And what they receive is overwhelming; projects now being built provide more data in a few nights than in the whole of humanities' history of observing the universe.
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The Crowd & the Cosmos
- Adventures in the Zooniverse
- Narrated by: Chris Lintott
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2019
- Language: English
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Discovered, Not Designed
- Building Things in the Age of Complexity
- By: Sean McClure
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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This book argues that we are entering an age where humanity must build truly complex things to continue our progress. This means learning to build as nature builds, and as it turns out, forces us to redefine knowledge and skill, and more broadly our scientific and engineering paradigm.
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Discovered, Not Designed
- Building Things in the Age of Complexity
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 21-08-2025
- Language: English
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The End of Night
- Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
- By: Paul Bogard
- Narrated by: Paul Bogard
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quarters of Americans' eyes never switch to night vision and most of us no longer experience true darkness. In The End of Night, Paul Bogard restores our awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to art.
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Boring
- By KB on 24-07-2017
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The End of Night
- Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
- Narrated by: Paul Bogard
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-04-2014
- Language: English
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The Examined Mind
- A BBC radio collection exploring the history, philosophy and science of self-help
- By: Robin Ince, Kate Williams, Byron Vincent, and others
- Narrated by: Bryon Vincent, Emma Barnett, Felicity Ward, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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This collection brings together history, science, philosophy and comedy to explore our age-old search for meaning. We live in an age of self-improvement and self-examination - lifehacking, wellbeing, self-care, mindfulness retreats - but this seemingly very modern phenomenon is a pursuit that...
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The Examined Mind
- A BBC radio collection exploring the history, philosophy and science of self-help
- Narrated by: Bryon Vincent, Emma Barnett, Felicity Ward, Kate Williams, Robin Ince, Sian Williams, Will Self
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-11-2020
- Language: English
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Expressly Human
- Decoding the Language of Emotion
- By: Mark Changizi, Tim Barber
- Narrated by: Mark Changizi
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve to be so emotionally expressive—to be us? The answer, as evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most important language—one that allows us, as social animals, to engage in highly sophisticated communications and negotiations.
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Expressly Human
- Decoding the Language of Emotion
- Narrated by: Mark Changizi
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 26-07-2022
- Language: English
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The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics
- Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts (Reflections by Jeff Carreira)
- By: Jeff Carreira
- Narrated by: Jeff Carreira
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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This book is about science and how it works. It is about what it means for a paradigm to shift and what it really takes to shift it. And it is about the strange and unusual world of quantum physics and what it tells us about who we are. At the start of the 20th Century, a dramatic revolution in science occurred. Over the course of a few decades our most fundamental notions of time, space and consciousness were all being called into question. In undeniable ways, it became clear that the nature of reality is intimately interwoven with our experience of it.
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The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics
- Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts (Reflections by Jeff Carreira)
- Narrated by: Jeff Carreira
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 11-01-2024
- Language: English
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Films from the Future
- The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
- By: Andrew Maynard
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science-fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and make you think about the relationship between technology and society. Through the imagination and creativity of science-fiction movies, Maynard introduces listeners to the profound capabilities presented by new and emerging technologies, and the complex personal and societal challenges they present.
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Films from the Future
- The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2018
- 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
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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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Color
- The Secret Life of the Spectrum
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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What is color? Not just pigment. Not just light. Not even just perception. Color is a system. A language written in wavelengths, built by biology, shaped by culture, and weaponized by power. From ancient dyes to modern marketing, from the psychology of red to the physics of violet, COLOR is a vibrant walk through everything we think we see… and everything we’ve been trained to feel. Explore how the brain edits the spectrum, how flags and uniforms manipulate emotion, how art history is lined with poison, and why no one saw “blue” until they invented a word for it. This is not a book about art.
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Color
- The Secret Life of the Spectrum
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-12-2025
- Language: English
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Time's Second Arrow
- Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature
- By: Robert M Hazen, Michael L. Wong
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Of the codified laws of nature, only one inscribes a direction to time: the dreaded second law of thermodynamics, which declares that the disorder of a closed system tends to increase as time passes. New shoes eventually scuff, our bodies weaken and die. Yet our senses tell us that miraculous order constantly emerges, too: children grow and learn; spontaneous patterns manifest in murmurations of starlings. Can it be true that the laws of our universe mandate only dissolution?
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Time's Second Arrow
- Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2026
- 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: 8 hrs
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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 life using evidence of the systemic disadvantages women operate under, from the developing science of how our brains are and more importantly aren't gendered, to social science evidence around attitudes towards girls and women doing science.
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Not Just for the Boys
- Why We Need More Women in Science
- Narrated by: Julia Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 31-03-2026
- Language: English
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Mass Extinction Number 6
- The End of Our Time on Earth
- By: Ronald Baldwin
- Narrated by: Linda Kutzer's voice replica
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Mass Extinction Number 6: The End of Our Time on Earth is a sobering and powerful exploration of the ongoing ecological collapse unfolding in the 21st century—a catastrophe not caused by an asteroid or supervolcano, but by us. In the tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, Ronald Baldwin brings a unique blend of investigative clarity, emotional urgency, and narrative power to this stark warning about humanity’s role in triggering the sixth mass extinction event in Earth’s history.
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Mass Extinction Number 6
- The End of Our Time on Earth
- Narrated by: Linda Kutzer's voice replica
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2025
- Language: English
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The Next Decade of Biotech
- Convergence, Innovation, and Transformation
- By: Paramendra Bhagat
- Narrated by: Ed Fairbanks's voice replica
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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The Next Decade of Biotech is a sweeping exploration of how biotechnology is transforming health, food, industry, and the environment. It covers breakthroughs like CRISPR, mRNA vaccines, and synthetic biology, and examines the integration of biotech with AI, robotics, and quantum computing. The book highlights how biotech is enabling personalized medicine, sustainable agriculture, regenerative materials, and ecological restoration. It also addresses critical ethical challenges—gene editing, data privacy, access, and environmental risk—and urges inclusive, democratic governance.
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The Next Decade of Biotech
- Convergence, Innovation, and Transformation
- Narrated by: Ed Fairbanks's voice replica
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 18-08-2025
- 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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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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Strange Stability
- How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex
- By: Benjamin Wilson
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
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Do scientists speak truth to power? During the Cold War, a group of American strategists and science advisors claimed to do precisely that. Styling themselves as figures of rationality and restraint, they insisted that mutual assured destruction was the natural logic of the atomic age: as long as nuclear deterrence was credible, no one would ever shoot first. This doctrine, known as "strategic stability," became the foundation of the arms control movement. But in this counterhistory, Benjamin Wilson shows that we have misunderstood them and their efforts.
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Strange Stability
- How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2026
- Language: English
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