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Is This Wi-Fi Organic?
- A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
- By: Dave Farina
- Narrated by: Dave Farina
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Learn how to separate internet fact from fiction. We live in the information age, giving us access to every datum ever collected and every opinion its originator thought fit to share. But with this newfound access to information comes a new challenge. Namely, how can you tell what information is true and what is false? In Is This Wi-Fi Organic? Dave Farina, author and science expert from the YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains, is here to help you fight confirmation bias and logical fallacies.
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I wanted to like this book
- By Anonymous on 10-08-25
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Is This Wi-Fi Organic?
- A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
- Narrated by: Dave Farina
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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A Sense of the Mysterious
- Science and the Human Spirit
- By: Alan Lightman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In these brilliant essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth portraits of some of the great geniuses of our time, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Thoughtful, beautifully written, and wonderfully original, A Sense of the Mysterious confirms Alan Lightman's unique position at the crossroads of science and art.
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Great book
- By Kristijan on 23-04-23
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A Sense of the Mysterious
- Science and the Human Spirit
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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Alexander Graham Bell
- The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone
- By: Edwin S. Grosvenor, Morgan Wesson
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Edwin Grosvenor writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes, including the first to fly in Canada. He also examines Bell's humanitarian efforts, including support for women's suffrage, civil rights, and speeches about what he warned would be a "greenhouse effect" of pollution causing global warming.
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Alexander Graham Bell
- The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-04-17
- Language: English
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Wise Animals
- How Technology Has Made Us What We Are
- By: Tom Chatfield
- Narrated by: Tom Chatfield
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Evocatively read by the author, Tom Chatfield. 'Powerful, profound and completely engrossing, a meditation on not only technology but also history, culture, ideas, ethics, psychology and, above all, what it means to be human.' – Michael Bhaskar, co-author of The Coming Wave Wise Animals...
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Superb
- By jz on 12-03-24
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Wise Animals
- How Technology Has Made Us What We Are
- Narrated by: Tom Chatfield
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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Triumphs of Experience
- The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
- By: George E. Vaillant
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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At a time when many people around the world are living into their 10th decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: Our lives continue to evolve in our later years and often become more fulfilling than before. Begun in 1938, the Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over 200 men, starting with their undergraduate days. The now-classic Adaptation to Life reported on the men's lives up to age 55 and helped us understand adult maturation.
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Triumphs of Experience
- The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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You Don't Know What You're Missing
- The science of what’s lost, and how to find it
- By: Kit Yates
- Narrated by: Kit Yates
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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We all like to think we're making decisions based on reality, but in fact, we're almost always working from incomplete information. And when 'you don't know what you don't know', it can be impossible to navigate successfully. In You Don't Know What You're Missing mathematician Kit Yates explores...
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You Don't Know What You're Missing
- The science of what’s lost, and how to find it
- Narrated by: Kit Yates
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Science: A Children's Encyclopedia
- DK Children's Visual Encyclopedia
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Jess Nesling
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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You'll be firing on all cylinders with this science spectacular! The exciting exploration of biology, chemistry, and physics is vital reading for curious minds. Science becomes simple and straightforward, so you never get your wires crossed again. What makes a firework go bang? How do plants make food from sunlight? What makes a robot clever? Find the answers to all these questions and much, much more.
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Science: A Children's Encyclopedia
- DK Children's Visual Encyclopedia
- Narrated by: Jess Nesling
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-08-24
- Language: English
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Psychedelic Apes
- From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs – the weirdest theories of science and history
- By: Alex Boese
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and history. What if we’re living inside a black hole? What if we’ve already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ...
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Really fun listening
- By Joshua on 23-12-24
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Psychedelic Apes
- From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs – the weirdest theories of science and history
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 25-07-19
- Language: English
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The Canon
- A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
- By: Natalie Angier
- Narrated by: Nike Doukas
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world’s top scientists and on her own work as a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer for the New York Times, Natalie Angier creates a thoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. The Canon is a vital book for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time—from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. And it’s for every parent who has ever panicked when a child asked how the earth was formed or what electricity is.
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The Canon
- A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
- Narrated by: Nike Doukas
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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Uncertainty
- Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
- By: David Lindley
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and put Niels Bohr in the middle of one of the most heated debates in scientific history. Heisenberg's theorem stated that there were physical limits to what we could know about sub-atomic particles; this "uncertainty" would have shocking implications.
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Good book
- By Davide Di Maio on 26-10-09
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Uncertainty
- Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 15-09-09
- Language: English
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The Environment
- A History of the Idea
- By: Paul Warde, Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Authors Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin trace the emergence of the concept of the environment following World War II, a period characterized by both hope for a new global order and fear of humans' capacity for almost limitless destruction. It was at this moment that a new idea and a new narrative about the planet-wide impact of people's behavior emerged, closely allied to anxieties for the future. With the rise of "the environment", the authors argue, came new expertise, making certain kinds of knowledge crucial to understanding the future of our planet.
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The Environment
- A History of the Idea
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-01-19
- Language: English
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The Copernicus Complex
- Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
- By: Caleb Scharf
- Narrated by: Caleb Scharf
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014 An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014 A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff Pick In the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth...
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Couldn’t put it down.
- By C. Bamford on 18-12-18
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The Copernicus Complex
- Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
- Narrated by: Caleb Scharf
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 09-09-14
- Language: English
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A People's History of Science
- Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"
- By: Clifford D. Conner
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: how Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a brilliant thinker who puts it all together. These few tower over the ordinary masses, and in the traditional account, it is to them that we owe science in its entirety. This belief is wrong.
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A People's History of Science
- Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 19-01-21
- Language: English
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Magus
- The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
- By: Anthony Grafton
- Narrated by: Nick Pearse
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on everything from secret codes to siege engines to magic tricks. Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius and - by some measures - credulous or worse.
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Magus
- The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
- Narrated by: Nick Pearse
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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The Newton Papers
- The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts
- By: Sarah Dry
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When Isaac Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left behind a wealth of papers that, when examined, gave his followers and his family a deep sense of unease. Some of what they contained was wildly heretical and alchemically obsessed, hinting at a Newton altogether stranger and less palatable than the one enshrined in Westminster Abbey as the paragon of English rationality. These manuscripts had the potential to undermine not merely Newton's reputation, but that of the scientific method he embodied.
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Nothing about Newton
- By Adrian Le Monnier on 28-03-17
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The Newton Papers
- The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-01-15
- Language: English
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Einstein's War
- How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World
- By: Matthew Stanley
- Narrated by: Matthew Stanley
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Einstein's War written and read by Matthew Stanley. In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations on the scrap of paper outlined his...
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Poor narration made it unlistenable
- By Chess1980 on 05-11-20
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Einstein's War
- How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World
- Narrated by: Matthew Stanley
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 23-05-19
- 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
- Unabridged
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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: 03-11-20
- Language: English
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Hoof Beats
- How Horses Shaped Human History
- By: William T. Taylor
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Hoof Beats transforms our understanding of both horses and humanity's ancient past and asks us to consider what our relationship with horses means for the future of humanity and the world around us.
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Hoof Beats
- How Horses Shaped Human History
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-11-24
- 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
- Unabridged
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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: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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Storie brutte sulla scienza, ma peggio
- Storie brutte sulla scienza, Vol. 2
- By: Barbascura X
- Narrated by: Barbascura X
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Original Recording
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Alcune storie sono troppo assurde per non essere raccontate, come l'epico scontro Alessandro Volta VS Luigi Galvani, tra rane morte ed energia elettrica che ha ispirato la nascita del mostro di Frankenstein. O ancora Stephen Hawking e quella sua fissa per i buchi neri, Margherita Hack che pedalava verso l'osservatorio tra le bombe della seconda guerra mondiale, Richard Feynman che scassinava casseforti durante il progetto Manhattan, Lord Kelvin il barone della morte termica dell'Universo, Enrico Fermi che ha scisso l'atomo e dato il via all'era nucleare.
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ironia e sapienza
- By Fabio Mongillo on 23-11-25
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Storie brutte sulla scienza, ma peggio
- Storie brutte sulla scienza, Vol. 2
- Narrated by: Barbascura X
- Series: Storie brutte sulla scienza, Book 9-16
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 30-06-25
- Language: Italian
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