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Tesla
- A Portrait with Masks
- Written by: Vladimir Pistalo, Bogdan Rakic - translator, John Jeffries - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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Nikola Tesla was a man forever misunderstood. From his boyhood in what is present-day Croatia, where his father, a Serbian Orthodox priest, dismissed his talents, to his tumultuous years in New York City, where his heated rivalry with Thomas Edison yielded triumphs and failures, Tesla was both demonized and lionized. Tesla captures the whirlwind years of the dawn of the electrical age, when his flair for showmanship kept him in the public eye.
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Tesla
- A Portrait with Masks
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 14-07-15
- Language: English
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Einstein's Genius Club
- The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World
- Written by: Burton Feldman, Katherine Williams
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they faced. As World War II wound down, and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends - all titans of contemporary science and philosophy - to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best: science and philosophy.
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Einstein's Genius Club
- The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 15-11-11
- Language: English
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Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience
- The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat
- Written by: Andrew Brown
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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As Andrew Brown shows in Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience, Joseph Rotblat's life--from an impoverished childhood in war-torn Warsaw to an active old age that brought honors and public recognition, including the Nobel Peace Prize--is a compelling human story in itself. What gives it added significance is Rotblat's single-minded dedication to peaceful causes, particularly his pursuit of nuclear disarmament.
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Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience
- The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 06-05-13
- Language: English
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Fresh Air Archive: Steven Jobs
- Written by: Terry Gross
- Narrated by: Terry Gross
- Length: 32 mins
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One of the founders of Apple Computers, Steven Jobs, talks about the future of computer technology on this edition of Fresh Air. Jobs led the development of the Macintosh computer and in 1985 he founded NeXT Computer. NeXT's mission is to develop customized software for businesses; two of their applications are OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP.
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Fresh Air Archive: Steven Jobs
- Narrated by: Terry Gross
- Length: 32 mins
- Release Date: 19-10-99
- Language: English
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The Triumph of an Idea
- The Story of Henry Ford
- Written by: Ralph H. Graves
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Here is the story of a mechanically inclined farm boy who turned the automobile from a toy for the wealthy, into a necessity for modern life.
This biography approaches the story of Henry Ford in the context of his world. For example, roads were as much a factor for cars, as the car was for roads. The farmer would not risk his livelihood on a Ford internal combustion tractor until the engine proved itself in his Sunday car.
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The Triumph of an Idea
- The Story of Henry Ford
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 04-01-10
- Language: English
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Thomas A. Edison tra scienza e creatività
- Written by: Francesco Benedetto Belfiore
- Narrated by: Lorenzo Visi
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Il nome di Thomas Alva Edison richiama alla mente di ognuno l'immagine della lampadina elettrica, sinonimo di inventiva, scoperta e genialità. Tuttavia, usando le parole dello stesso Edison, "per inventare serve solo una buona immaginazione e un bel mucchio di spazzatura". Si può dire che proprio da quella "spazzatura" - oggetti difettosi, problemi senza apparente soluzione, ma anche la sua quasi totale sordità e le condizioni disagiate della famiglia di origine - nacque la sua genialità, la vocazione a trovare soluzioni, a creare oggetti utili e funzionali, capaci di migliorare la vita di chiunque.
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Thomas A. Edison tra scienza e creatività
- Narrated by: Lorenzo Visi
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release Date: 03-11-15
- Language: italian
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Leonardo Da Vinci: L'uomo, l'artista, lo scienziato
- Written by: Dalila Tossani
- Narrated by: Lorenzo Visi
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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Le età della vita di Leonardo furono marcate da ricerche e spostamenti, sia attraverso luoghi fisici sia - soprattutto - attraverso le discipline che egli studiò e intrecciò in un continuo avanzamento. La sua fu una vita affascinante, tanto che da secoli viene studiata, catturando la curiosità di tutti, dagli storici dell'arte ai critici, dai filosofi agli psicologi, fino a ciascuno di noi.
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Leonardo Da Vinci: L'uomo, l'artista, lo scienziato
- Narrated by: Lorenzo Visi
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release Date: 17-08-15
- Language: italian
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Sergey Brin e Larry Page
- Gli inventori di Google
- Written by: Filippo Santin
- Narrated by: Lorenzo Visi
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Sergey Brin e Larry Page sono i fondatori di Google, il motore di ricerca per Internet più famoso al mondo. I due cominciarono a lavorarci verso la metà degli anni Novanta. Al tempo i due studiavano presso la Stanford University, ed è proprio lì, a due passi dalla Silicon Valley, che hanno iniziato a cambiare la storia della tecnologia, della comunicazione e dell'uomo.
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Sergey Brin e Larry Page
- Gli inventori di Google
- Narrated by: Lorenzo Visi
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release Date: 08-12-15
- Language: italian
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Guglielmo Marconi: L'anima della comunicazione
- Written by: Paolo Beltrami
- Narrated by: Lorenzo Visi
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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Il nome di Guglielmo Marconi - in tutto il mondo - è innegabilmente legato a quello della radio, tecnologia di comunicazione di massa senza fili di cui lo si ritiene uno degli inventori. Marconi fu anche e principalmente un grande imprenditore che fondò importanti aziende di telecomunicazioni grazie alle quali poté sviluppare i suoi più famosi progetti di ingegneria. Visse svariati anni all'estero, soprattutto in Inghilterra, e viaggiò moltissimo tra vecchio e nuovo continente; svolse un ruolo importantissimo durante l'emergenza dei naufraghi della grande tragedia del Titanic.
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Guglielmo Marconi: L'anima della comunicazione
- Narrated by: Lorenzo Visi
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release Date: 14-09-15
- Language: italian
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Il sistema periodico
- Written by: Primo Levi
- Narrated by: Massimo Popolizio
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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"Accanto al sollievo liberatorio che è proprio del reduce che racconta, provavo ora nello scrivere un piacere complesso, intenso e nuovo, simile a quello sperimentato da studente nel penetrare l'ordine solenne del calcolo differenziale. Era esaltante cercare e trovare, o creare, la parola giusta, cioè commisurata, breve e forte; ricavare le cose dal ricordo, e descriverle col massimo rigore e il minimo ingombro. Paradossalmente, il mio bagaglio di memorie atroci diventava una ricchezza, un seme; mi pareva, scrivendo, di crescere come una pianta."
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Il sistema periodico
- Narrated by: Massimo Popolizio
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 24-03-16
- Language: italian
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Louis Pasteur
- Written by: Albert Keim, Louis Lumet
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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A biography of the great French chemist and crystallographer, Louis Pasteur, who invented the pasteurization process, identified microbes as a cause of infectious disease, and developed the first vaccine against rabies.
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Louis Pasteur
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 01-12-09
- Language: English
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Henry Martyn Leland: The King of Luxury Cars Cadillac and Lincoln
- Written by: Daniel Alef
- Narrated by: Baron Ron Herron
- Length: 8 mins
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Here's a biographical profile of Henry Leland, one of the less well-known American automobile pioneers, but who's cars are top named brands and his imprint on the development of the American automobile industry is with few parallels. If Leland had named his cars in his own image, like Ford, Chrysler, Dodge or Olds, he would be renowned - he founded Cadillac and Lincoln. When General Motors nearly went bankrupt in 1910, Leland's Cadillac division kept the company afloat.
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Henry Martyn Leland: The King of Luxury Cars Cadillac and Lincoln
- Narrated by: Baron Ron Herron
- Length: 8 mins
- Release Date: 04-02-09
- Language: English
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Alan Turing
- Written by: Simone Buttazzi
- Narrated by: Claudio Borgianni
- Length: 58 mins
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Visionario, sportivo, eroe di guerra, omosessuale: Alan Turing è stato uno dei padri della rivoluzione digitale del Novecento, l'uomo che ha inventato il concetto stesso di computer. Questa biografia invita l’ascoltatore a scoprire il grande genio di Alan Turing. Un testo rapido, semplice e godibilissimo. Visionary, sportsman, war hero, homosexual....
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Alan Turing
- Narrated by: Claudio Borgianni
- Length: 58 mins
- Release Date: 10-10-12
- Language: italian
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John Nash: I giochi della mente
- Written by: Erica Bernini
- Narrated by: Lorenzo Visi
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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Tra tutte le menti geniali che la scienza ha raccolto, quella di John Forbes Nash è stata la più vicina alla solitudine profonda, conseguenza prima di un carattere difficile, poi di una malattia - la schizofrenia - tanto invasiva da aver compromesso per molti anni la sua carriera e la sua vita privata. Definito come il matematico più geniale degli ultimi decenni, John Nash si differenziava per molti aspetti da tutti coloro che aveva attorno. La sua personalità solitaria e distaccata e le difficoltà nel capire ed esprimere i sentimenti lo isolarono nel corso degli anni.
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John Nash: I giochi della mente
- Narrated by: Lorenzo Visi
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Release Date: 14-09-15
- Language: italian
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La vie, la mort, la vie
- Louis Pasteur 1822-1895
- Written by: Érik Orsenna
- Narrated by: Xavier Béja
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Treize années durant, chaque jeudi après-midi, l'Académie française m'a offert le privilège d'avoir comme voisin le Prix Nobel de médecine, François Jacob. Comme deux potaches, nous bavardions. Mon ignorance abyssale en biologie l'accablait. C'est lui qui m'a donné l'idée de ce livre : "Puisque, par on ne sait quel désolant hasard, tu occupes le fauteuil de Pasteur, plonge-toi dans son existence, tu seras bien obligé d'apprendre un peu ! "
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La vie, la mort, la vie
- Louis Pasteur 1822-1895
- Narrated by: Xavier Béja
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 23-09-15
- Language: French
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A Short Bright Flash
- Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse
- Written by: Theresa Levitt
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) shocked the scientific elite with his unique understanding of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a brilliant feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, farther, and more efficiently. Battling the establishment, his own poor health, and the limited technology of the time, Fresnel was able to achieve his goal of illuminating the entire French coast. At first, the British sought to outdo the new Fresnel-equipped lighthouses as a matter of national pride.
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A Short Bright Flash
- Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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The Feathery Tribe
- Written by: Daniel Lewis
- Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
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Amateurs and professionals studying birds at the end of the 19th century were a contentious, passionate group with goals that intersected, collided, and occasionally merged in their writings and organizations. Driven by a desire to advance science, as well as by ego, pride, honor, insecurity, religion and other clashing sensibilities, they struggled to absorb the implications of evolution after Darwin. In the process, they dramatically reshaped the study of birds. Daniel Lewis here explores the professionalization of ornithology through one of its key figures: Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian Institution’s first curator of birds.
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The Feathery Tribe
- Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 16-07-13
- Language: English
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A Rare Recording of Alexander Fleming
- Written by: Alexander Fleming
- Narrated by: Alexander Fleming
- Length: 6 mins
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Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 - March 11, 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme substance lysozyme in 1923, and the anitbiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. This audiobook is from a 1950 talk he gave on the development of antibiotics.
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A Rare Recording of Alexander Fleming
- Narrated by: Alexander Fleming
- Length: 6 mins
- Release Date: 14-06-13
- Language: English
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Sigmund Freud
- La fragile vita di un genio
- Written by: Marta Da Re
- Narrated by: Michele Pompei
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Tra la fine dell'Ottocento e l'inizio del Novecento, in un'epoca di pionieri, Sigmund Freud fu il coraggioso esploratore dell'animo umano: grazie alla sua capacità immaginativa e alla sua grande tenacia, riuscì a dare forma a un impianto teorico della mente così innovativo che ancora oggi è utilizzato dalla moderna psichiatria e psicologia.
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Sigmund Freud
- La fragile vita di un genio
- Narrated by: Michele Pompei
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release Date: 08-05-15
- Language: italian
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Vivre sur mars
- Written by: Cyprien Verseux
- Narrated by: Mathieu Buscatto
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Pendant un an, six scientifiques et ingénieurs ont vécu isolés dans un dôme blanc de onze mètres de diamètre perché sur le volcan Mauna Loa, à Hawaii. Durant cette période, ils n'ont jamais été à l'air libre puisque, lors de leurs sorties à l'extérieur au cours desquelles ils exploraient des tunnels de lave et effectuaient diverses tâches scientifiques, ils portaient une combinaison spatiale. Ils n'avaient en stock que de la nourriture déshydratée.
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Vivre sur mars
- Narrated by: Mathieu Buscatto
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 07-12-17
- Language: French
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