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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
- By: Tom Phillips
- Narrated by: Nish Kumar
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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An exhilarating history of humankind, chronicling thousands of years of trial and error - but mostly error - in the rise of civilization....
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if you think white men are evil
- By Victor Fiore on 12-11-20
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61. Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
- Narrated by: Nish Kumar
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-07-19
- Language: English
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The Golden Ratio
- The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of an ancient mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887....
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Tedious Listen
- By Amanda Halsdorff on 10-25-14
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62. The Golden Ratio
- The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-09-13
- Language: English
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Ignition! is the story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio....
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Science man lists names of chemicals for 9 hours
- By Adrian on 05-06-19
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63. Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-15-18
- Language: English
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The Catalyst
- RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
- By: Thomas R. Cech
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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A gripping journey of discovery, The Catalyst moves from the early experiments that first hinted at RNA's spectacular powers, to Cech's own paradigm-shifting finding that it can catalyze cellular reactions, to the cutting-edge biotechnologies poised to reshape our health.
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a discredit to women scientists everywhere
- By Mom on 07-31-24
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64. The Catalyst
- RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-30-24
- Language: English
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The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- By: Sherwin B. Nuland
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease....
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65. The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-30-20
- Language: English
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Our Moon
- How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
- By: Rebecca Boyle
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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Acclaimed journalist Rebecca Boyle takes listeners on a dazzling tour to reveal the intimate role that our 4.51-billion-year-old companion has played in our biological and cultural evolution.
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Interesting but with annoyances
- By J. Pegg on 04-13-24
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66. Our Moon
- How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-16-24
- Language: English
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Pandora’s Lab
- Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
- By: Paul A. Offit MD
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....
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Stick to the science and drop the political slant.
- By Nancy Johnson Mercado on 06-03-17
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67. Pandora’s Lab
- Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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Forbidden Science
- From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy
- By: J. Douglas Kenyon - editor
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Reveals the cutting edge of New Science and shows how established science disallows inquiry that challenges the status quo—even when it produces verifiable results....
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68. Forbidden Science
- From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-10-22
- Language: English
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Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon
- The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there’s no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list. Maxwell was an unassuming Victorian Scotsman....
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Science writing done right
- By Erik Hill Reviews on 04-08-20
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69. Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon
- The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-14-19
- Language: English
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Forensics
- What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
- By: Val McDermid
- Narrated by: Sarah Barron
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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The dead talk - to the right listener. They can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them....
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Crime Seen
- By Mark on 09-02-16
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70. Forensics
- What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
- Narrated by: Sarah Barron
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-07-15
- Language: English
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Origin
- A Genetic History of the Americas
- By: Jennifer Raff
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau, Jennifer Raff - Interview, Yvonne Russo - Interview
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story - and fascinating mystery - of how humans migrated to the Americas....
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A Superb Account Of The Science Of Indigenous American Anthropology
- By Linda S. on 02-21-22
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71. Origin
- A Genetic History of the Americas
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau, Jennifer Raff - Interview, Yvonne Russo - Interview
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-08-22
- Language: English
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Theory and History
- An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LvMI)
- By: Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Here Mises defends his all-important idea of methodological dualism: one approach to the hard sciences and another for the social sciences....
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Without This Book, You Are Uneducated
- By Michael D. Rubin on 10-03-18
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72. Theory and History
- An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LvMI)
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 02-19-16
- Language: English
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Strange Medicine
- A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
- By: Nathan Belofsky
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Now published in five languages, Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders....
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73. Strange Medicine
- A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-26-21
- Language: English
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- By: George Dyson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses - led by John von Neumann - gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey....
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Needed an editor
- By Monte Johnston on 03-12-12
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74. Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-06-12
- Language: English
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The Particle at the End of the Universe
- How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
- By: Sean Carroll
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: The Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found....
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A History of Modern Particle Physics
- By Matthew on 12-22-12
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75. The Particle at the End of the Universe
- How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 12-17-12
- Language: English
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The Red Queen
- Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators....
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If I were ten Years Old...
- By Ken on 02-07-11
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76. The Red Queen
- Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-18-11
- Language: English
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America....
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Excellent 2023 update on genetics
- By Roy on 01-11-25
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77. Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 03-21-23
- Language: English
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What's Gotten into You
- The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
- By: Dan Levitt
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth’s deserts. If you weigh 150 pounds, you’ve got enough carbon to make 25 pounds of charcoal....
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One of the Very Best Science Books I have Read
- By TStair on 03-20-23
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78. What's Gotten into You
- The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-24-23
- Language: English
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Time Traveler
- A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
- By: Dr. Ronald L. Mallett, Bruce Henderson - contributor
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past...
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The reader had a great voice
- By Cody on 10-11-24
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79. Time Traveler
- A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-12-22
- Language: English
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
- By: Jonah Lehrer
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery....
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We don't need a new definition of neuroscience ...
- By Eva on 04-05-09
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80. Proust Was a Neuroscientist
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-01-08
- Language: English
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