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Falsehoods Fly
- Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It
- By: Paul Thagard
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist and philosopher offers a new framework for recognizing and countering misleading claims by exploring the ways that information works-and breaks down.
By: Paul Thagard
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Complexity
- A Guided Tour
- By: Melanie Mitchell
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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In this remarkably clear and companionable audiobook, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.
By: Melanie Mitchell
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Now It Can Be Told
- The Story of the Manhattan Project
- By: Leslie R. Groves
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name The Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon.
By: Leslie R. Groves
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Why Dawkins Is Absolutely Right–and Absolutely Wrong–on God and Religion
- Towards a Genuine Resolution to the Conflict Between Science and Religion
- By: Haim D. Heilprin
- Narrated by: Paul Casselle
- Length: 58 mins
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From an evolutionary biopsychologist turned clinical psychologist, Why Dawkins is Absolutely Right–and Absolutely Wrong–on God and Religion offers a radical critique of Dawkins' stance on God and religion that introduces a paradigm-shifting, scientifically and spiritually sound resolution to the conflict between science and religion.
By: Haim D. Heilprin
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The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries
- How Scientists Found the Connections between Climate and Life
- By: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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In this entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries. Journeying through the intertwined evolution of climate and life, he tackles questions such as: Why do we have phytoplankton to thank for the air we breathe? What kind of climate was necessary for the rise of the dinosaurs-or the mammals, their successors? When and how have climatic changes caused mass extinctions?
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Maß für Maß [The Seven Measures of the World]
- Die sieben Einheiten, die unsere Welt erklären
- By: Piero Martin, Julika Brandestini - translator
- Narrated by: Sebastian Waldemer
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Alles ist messbar: Kaffee und Galaxien ebenso wie Quarks und Schwarze Löcher, der Mensch, die Natur, die Städte–kurz, alles, was uns umgibt. Das Einzige, was man dafür braucht, sind die sieben Maßeinheiten Meter, Kilogramm, Sekunde, Ampere, Kelvin, Mol und Candela.
By: Piero Martin, and others
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Falsehoods Fly
- Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It
- By: Paul Thagard
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist and philosopher offers a new framework for recognizing and countering misleading claims by exploring the ways that information works-and breaks down.
By: Paul Thagard
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Complexity
- A Guided Tour
- By: Melanie Mitchell
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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In this remarkably clear and companionable audiobook, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.
By: Melanie Mitchell
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Now It Can Be Told
- The Story of the Manhattan Project
- By: Leslie R. Groves
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name The Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon.
By: Leslie R. Groves
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Why Dawkins Is Absolutely Right–and Absolutely Wrong–on God and Religion
- Towards a Genuine Resolution to the Conflict Between Science and Religion
- By: Haim D. Heilprin
- Narrated by: Paul Casselle
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From an evolutionary biopsychologist turned clinical psychologist, Why Dawkins is Absolutely Right–and Absolutely Wrong–on God and Religion offers a radical critique of Dawkins' stance on God and religion that introduces a paradigm-shifting, scientifically and spiritually sound resolution to the conflict between science and religion.
By: Haim D. Heilprin
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The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries
- How Scientists Found the Connections between Climate and Life
- By: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In this entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries. Journeying through the intertwined evolution of climate and life, he tackles questions such as: Why do we have phytoplankton to thank for the air we breathe? What kind of climate was necessary for the rise of the dinosaurs-or the mammals, their successors? When and how have climatic changes caused mass extinctions?
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Maß für Maß [The Seven Measures of the World]
- Die sieben Einheiten, die unsere Welt erklären
- By: Piero Martin, Julika Brandestini - translator
- Narrated by: Sebastian Waldemer
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Alles ist messbar: Kaffee und Galaxien ebenso wie Quarks und Schwarze Löcher, der Mensch, die Natur, die Städte–kurz, alles, was uns umgibt. Das Einzige, was man dafür braucht, sind die sieben Maßeinheiten Meter, Kilogramm, Sekunde, Ampere, Kelvin, Mol und Candela.
By: Piero Martin, and others
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Universal Holistic Philosophy
- And How to Understand the Universe
- By: Martin K. Ettington
- Narrated by: Martin K. Ettington
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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Most of us have been trained by schools and universities as to what scientific and historical truths are supposed to be. However, I maintain that much of what science and history teaches us is in error because the proponents of different points of view have too narrow an understanding of the truth that reality presents.
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Time One
- Discover How the Universe Began
- By: Colin Gillespie
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 23 hrs and 34 mins
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Time One tackles mankind's most baffling question: How did the world begin? After challenging old thinking about forty-seven crucial scientific problems, Time One author Colin Gillespie solves forty-five of them and comes up with a strikingly simple answer to the most perplexing question of them all: How did the world begin?
Time One takes an iconoclastic look at contemporary physics, notably relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory.
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Annoying
- By Paul davis on 27-09-22
By: Colin Gillespie
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Is God a Mathematician?
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so perfectly explain the natural world. More than that - mathematics has often made predictions, for example, about subatomic particles or cosmic phenomena that were unknown at the time, but later were proven to be true.
By: Mario Livio
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
- By: Janna Levin
- Narrated by: Janna Levin
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves - by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.
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expecting something else completely
- By tom bunge on 24-12-20
By: Janna Levin
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Light
- A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
- By: Bruce Watson
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a 'heaven of pure light.' Later, following Leonardo's advice, Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas.
By: Bruce Watson
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The Scientific Revolution
- Ringing In a New World
- By: in60Learning
- Narrated by: Tony Honickberg
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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The Scientific Revolution was a chain of events that unfolded during the 16th and 17th centuries, which brought about drastic changes in scientific thought. Modern science emerged as advances in astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics transformed society’s perceptions of nature.
By: in60Learning
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The Caretakers of the Cosmos
- Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World
- By: Gary Lachman
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Why are we here? Human beings have asked themselves this question for centuries. Modern science largely argues that human beings are chance products of a purposeless universe, but other traditions believe humanity has an essential role and responsibility in creation. Lachman brings together many strands of esoteric, spiritual and philosophical thought to form a counter-argument to the nihilism that permeates the twenty-first century.
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Stimulating ideas
- By Martin on 21-01-21
By: Gary Lachman
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God According to God
- A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along
- By: Gerald Schroeder
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In his first book since 2002's acclaimed The Hidden Face of God, popular scientist Gerald Schroeder combines decades of scientific research and biblical study to present a groundbreaking new paradigm of how to understand God. Fans of Jack Miles' God: A Biography, Francis Collins' The Language of God, and Richard Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible will find much to contemplate in God According to God.
By: Gerald Schroeder
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position
- The Earth as Lover
- By: Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Jennie Klein
- Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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What's sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely - or, perhaps, broadly - what Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have spent many years bringing to light in their live art, exhibitions, and films. In 2008, Sprinkle and Stephens married the Earth, which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment.
By: Annie Sprinkle, and others
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Darwin Devolves
- The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
- By: Michael J. Behe
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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The scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator.
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Mind Opening
- By Dr Liz Miller on 29-09-19
By: Michael J. Behe
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The Great Fossil Enigma
- The Search for the Conodont Animal
- By: Simon J. Knell
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
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A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries. Simon J. Knell takes the listener on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing. Slowly the animal begins to reveal traces of itself: its lifestyle, its remarkable evolution, its witnessing of great catastrophes, its movements over the surface of the planet, and finally its anatomy. Today the conodont animal remains perhaps the most disputed creature in the zoological world.
By: Simon J. Knell
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Naturocrit Pamphlet 02
- The Naturocrit Podcast Episode 013 [se02e03] Script and Annotations
- By: Rob Cullen
- Narrated by: Robert Cullen
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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This is the script for and the annotations concerning the Naturocrit Podcast Episode 013, which is titled "The State of Connecticut and Its Naturopathy: Deception, Fraud, Double-Dealing, Subterfuge, and Trickery". In this episode, I delve into a very interesting and new 2017 State of Connecticut document published by their DPH, wherein Connecticut allied healthcare warns that naturopathy is not scientific and not committed to evidence.
By: Rob Cullen
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Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics
- Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge
- By: Vic Mansfield, His Holiness the Dalai Lama - foreword
- Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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In a clear and engaging way, this book shows how the principle of emptiness, the philosophic heart of Tibetan Buddhism, connects intimately to quantum nonlocality and other foundational features of quantum mechanics. Detailed connections between emptiness, modern relativity, and the nature of time are also explored. For Tibetan Buddhists, the profound interconnectedness implied by emptiness demands the practice of universal compassion.
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Outstanding
- By dawn on 13-04-13
By: Vic Mansfield, and others
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The Synthetic Age
- Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World
- By: Christopher J. Preston
- Narrated by: Scott Merriman
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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In The Synthetic Age, Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about this coming epoch is not only how much impact humans have had but, more important, how much deliberate shaping they will start to do. Emerging technologies promise to give us the power to take over some of Nature's most basic operations. It is not just that we are exiting the Holocene and entering the Anthropocene; it is that we are leaving behind the time in which planetary change is just the unintended consequence of unbridled industrialism.
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The Eureka Years
- A BBC History of Science
- By: Adam Hart-Davis
- Narrated by: Adam Hart-Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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The long history of science is illuminated by eureka moments - occasional and startling breakthroughs that change the way we think about ourselves and our universe. Adam Hart-Davis guides us through the history of science by examining 16 of the most formative years for our understanding of astronomy, medicine, biology, space and time. Episodes include 1965, in which Adam examines how mankind's peculiar gift for self-destruction fuelled the race to the moon. He leafs through a book published in 1628, which described, for the first time, how blood circulates around the human body.
By: Adam Hart-Davis
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What Should We Be Worried About?
- Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
- By: John Brockman
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford, Peter Berkrot, Antony Ferguson, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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John Brockman, editor of This Will Make You Smarter, presents his latest thought-provoking audiobook, featuring insights from leading thinkers such as Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, Matt Ridley, and Daniel C. Dennett. Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about - and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. Encompassing neuroscience, economics, philosophy, physics, psychology, biology, and more - here are 150 ideas that will revolutionize your understanding of the world.
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A flashback read from our dystopian Trump era
- By Pepperpurple on 02-08-18
By: John Brockman
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Philosophical Journeys
- Exploring Africa for Intellectual Enlightenment
- By: Anthony Farrior
- Narrated by: Ed Strong
- Length: 8 mins
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Africa, a continent teeming with diversity, culture, and history, has long been a destination for explorers seeking knowledge and enlightenment. While often portrayed through the lens of its natural wonders and political struggles, Africa has also been a crucible for intellectual exploration.
By: Anthony Farrior
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La ciencia Pop 2 [Science Pop 2]
- By: Gabriel León
- Narrated by: Daniel Streeter
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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Repitiendo la fórmula de su primera versión, Ciencia pop 2 entrega nuevas historias y hazañas científicas. Biografías, descubrimientos, accidentes, errores e incógnitas son abordadas mediante una pluma informada y fascinante.
By: Gabriel León
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This is Your Brain on Sex
- The Science Behind the Search for Love
- By: Kayt Sukel
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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In the wake of a divorce, science writer and single mother Kayt Sukel made herself a guinea pig in the labs of some unusual love experts to find out. This Is Your Brain on Sex is her lively and hilarious examination of the big questions about love and sex, previously published in hardcover as Dirty Minds. Each chapter of this edgy romp through the romantic brain looks at a different aspect of love above the belt.
By: Kayt Sukel
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Empiricism and Its Limits
- By: J.-M. Kuczynski
- Narrated by: Randy Whitlow
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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Observation apprises us of what is, but not of what must be. It therefore does not apprise us of logical norms or of relations of logical dependence. In addition, the transformation of sensory information (pictorial) information into propositional (conceptual, non-pictorial) information presupposes knowledge of how to convert information of one kind into information of some other kind, and it therefore presupposes knowledge of logical equivalencies.
By: J.-M. Kuczynski
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Rivals
- How Scientists Learned to Cooperate
- By: Lorraine Daston
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did “the scientific community” come into existence, and why does it work? Rivals is an attempt to answer these questions in the form of a brief historical overview, from the late seventeenth to the early twenty-first centuries.
By: Lorraine Daston
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Patterns of Connection
- Essential Essays from Five Decades
- By: Fritjof Capra
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Fritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, presents the evolution of his thought over five decades in Patterns of Connection. First introduced in the late 1950s to the work of Werner Heisenberg, a founder of quantum mechanics, Capra quickly intuited the connections between the discoveries of quantum physics and the traditions of Eastern philosophy - resulting in his first book, the best-selling The Tao of Physics.
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Listen before you buy
- By jm49 on 07-04-22
By: Fritjof Capra
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Evolution Talk
- The Who, What, Why, and How Behind the Oldest Story Ever Told
- By: Rick Coste
- Narrated by: Rick Coste
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Before Charles Darwin, other luminaries planted the seeds that would one day evolve into the theory that would make him famous. Author Rick Coste begins by shining a spotlight on the writers, philosophers, and scientists who planted the seeds that would blossom into the theory of evolution by natural selection, from Aristotle’s big ideas to young Mary Anning’s discovery of the first ichthyosaur skeleton. After exploring the contributions of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, Evolution Talk investigates the very beginnings of life itself.
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Superb account of evolution and the history of it.
- By Adam Sheardown on 31-10-22
By: Rick Coste
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Eureka!
- Storia avventurosa delle scoperte, invenzioni e prime volte che hanno cambiato l'umanità
- By: Cody Cassidy
- Narrated by: Pino Pirovano
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Il fuoco, i vestiti, le armi; il cibo, l’alcol, la scrittura; la medicina, la ruota, le nuove terre. Quella dell’umanità è una storia avventurosa, costellata di snodi fondamentali, piccole e grandi scoperte o invenzioni che hanno cambiato per sempre la nostra civiltà e l’ambiente intorno a noi e ci hanno trasformato da ominidi pelosi ma ingegnosi in esseri umani dotati di humour e gusti raffinati (e chissà se è stato un bene).
By: Cody Cassidy