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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- Written by: Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms - that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the development of better antibiotics against life-threatening diseases.
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Interesting story but the author needs to be aware non-European scientific discoveries
- By Rajiv Rao on 21-02-19
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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 06-11-18
- Language: English
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Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. He takes subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry, and particle physics, and aims to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. In the company of some extraordinary scientists, Bill Bryson reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
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Good book with mistakes.
- By Nitesh Sethiya on 21-12-18
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
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A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's fascinating and humorous quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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Lessons in Chemistry
- Written by: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant Nobel-prize-nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
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Amazing Read
- By Shivangi on 02-09-24
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Lessons in Chemistry
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 05-04-22
- Language: English
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing....
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know.
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A fascinating book
- By Smaty Sahni on 08-01-23
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 01-04-10
- Language: English
- A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- Written by: Ed Conway
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium. The struggle for these tiny, magical materials has razed empires, demolished civilizations, fed our greed and our ingenuity for thousands of years. But the story is not over. We are often told we now live in a weightless world of information but in fact we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. And it's getting worse. To make one bar of gold, we now have to dig 5,000 tons of earth. For every tonne of fossil fuels, we extract six tonnes of other materials - from sand to stone to wood to metal.
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Oh wow, what a great story of evolution of mankind from the materials perspective!
- By Kiran on 27-05-24
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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- Narrated by: Ed Conway
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 15-06-23
- Language: English
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See the history of human civilization from a new perspective - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - literally from the ground up....
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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf
- How the Elements Were Named
- Written by: Peter Wothers
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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The iconic periodic table of the elements is now in its most satisfyingly elegant form. This is because all the "gaps" corresponding to missing elements in the seventh row, or period, have recently been filled and the elements named. But where do these names come from? For some, usually the most recent, the origins are quite obvious, but in others - even well-known elements such as oxygen or nitrogen - the roots are less clear. Here, Peter Wothers explores the fascinating and often surprising stories behind how the chemical elements received their names.
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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf
- How the Elements Were Named
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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Here, Peter Wothers explores the fascinating and often surprising stories behind how the chemical elements received their names....
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Smellosophy
- What the Nose Tells the Mind
- Written by: A.S. Barwich
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information.
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Smellosophy
- What the Nose Tells the Mind
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information....
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Size
- How It Explains the World
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Size is the most fundamental structural variable of the universe. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring it is challenging, especially where complex systems like economies are concerned, yet mastering it offers rich rewards. Grounded in history and drawing on the latest science, with much recourse to art and classic literature, Size explains the regularities—and peculiarities—of the key processes shaping life, the Earth, technical advances and societies and economies.
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Size
- How It Explains the World
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 04-05-23
- Language: English
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Grounded in history and drawing on the latest science, with much recourse to art and classic literature, Size explains the regularities—and peculiarities—of the key processes shaping life, the Earth, technical advances and societies and economies....
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A Natural History of Beer
- Written by: Ian Tattersall, Rob DeSalle
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, authors Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer. They explain how we came to drink beer, what ingredients combine to give beers their distinctive flavors, how beer's chemistry works at the molecular level, and how various societies have regulated the production and consumption of beer.
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A Natural History of Beer
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 27-02-19
- Language: English
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From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, authors Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer....
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The Chemistry Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Written by: DK
- Narrated by: Laura Brydon
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Arranged in chronological order, the book covers key themes in the physical and natural sciences, such as geochemistry and the elements. Within each chapter, a series of articles traces the history of scientific thought and introduces the work of the scientists who have shaped the subject such as John Dalton, Marie Curie, Dmitri Mendeleev, Kathleen Lonsdale and Stephanie Kwolek. Along the way, the audiobook addresses some of the most fundamental questions in science, such as what is the universe made of, how is matter created and what are the chemical bonds that make life possible?
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The Chemistry Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Narrated by: Laura Brydon
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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Discover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them....
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The Disappearing Spoon: Young Listeners Edition
- Written by: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, greed, betrayal, and obsession. The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon follow elements on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
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The Disappearing Spoon: Young Listeners Edition
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 04-04-18
- Language: English
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A young listeners edition of the New York Times best seller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table....
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It's a Gas
- The Magnificent and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
- Written by: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Taking us back to that exhilarating - and often dangerous - moment when scientists tried to work out exactly what it was they'd discovered, we see gases as the formative substances of our modern world. From how nitrous oxide and chloroform get into our bloodstream and affect our neural pathways to the gases that make plants grow and flowers smell through to the carbon-fuelled climate crisis, Mark Miodownik masterfully reveals this invisible world through his unique brand of scientific storytelling.
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It's a Gas
- The Magnificent and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 11-07-24
- Language: English
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With Miodownik as our guide, it transpires that each of these weird and wonderful substances has its own personality, giving a human angle to this fact-filled delight of a book....
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- Written by: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.
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Great book and the voice actor did a good job
- By Ramakrishnan on 17-10-21
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 12-10-10
- Language: English
- A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....
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Rocket Girl
- The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
- Written by: George D. Morgan, Ashley Stroupe
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls rarely dreamed of a career in science, Mary wanted to be a chemist. A decade later, the dreams of these two disparate individuals would coalesce in ways neither could have imagined.
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Rocket Girl
- The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 08-08-17
- Language: English
- America succeeded in launching rockets into space, but only because of the joint efforts of the brilliant farm girl from North Dakota and the famous German scientist....
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The Philadelphia Chromosome
- A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
- Written by: Jessica Wapner
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity and determination restored the promise of a future to the more than 50,000 people diagnosed each year with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).
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Reminiscing the Chhotu chromosome
- By BRS on 09-07-21
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The Philadelphia Chromosome
- A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 14-05-13
- Language: English
- Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines....
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Half Lives
- The Unlikely History of Radium
- Written by: Lucy Jane Santos
- Narrated by: Deirdre Whelan
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable item - a present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow-in-the-dark dance costume - to its role as a supposed cure-all in everyday 20th-century life, when medical practitioners and business people (reputable and otherwise) devised ingenious ways of commodifying the new wonder element.
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Half Lives
- The Unlikely History of Radium
- Narrated by: Deirdre Whelan
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 06-07-21
- Language: English
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Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element....
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Lavoisier in the Year One
- The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (The Great Discoveries Series)
- Written by: Madison Smartt Bell
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative comes across like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry—a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin—also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.
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Lavoisier in the Year One
- The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (The Great Discoveries Series)
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Series: Great Discoveries
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 28-06-22
- Language: English
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Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists....
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Marie Curie
- The Giants of Science Series, Book 4
- Written by: Kathleen Krull
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
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Listeners have come to expect chatty, direct narratives that develop distinct characters and place those individuals squarely in the context of both their times and their disciplines, and this account of the noted physicist’s life delivers the goods. From her childhood in an oppressed Poland, the daughter of two highly educated individuals, Curie emerges as a driven woman, determined to excel for both her parents’ and her country’s sake - this drive informing everything that followed.
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Marie Curie
- The Giants of Science Series, Book 4
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Series: The Giants of Science
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 11-02-20
- Language: English
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Listeners will emerge from this account with a new appreciation for both the scientific and social advances made by Curie, whose towering achievements justly earn her a place among the "Giants"....
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Written by: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?
As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.
It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just
during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.
This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death.
Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.-
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 14-05-13
- Language: English
- In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes....
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The Secrets of Alchemy
- Written by: Lawrence M. Principe
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. By surveying what alchemy was and how it began, developed, and overlapped with a range of ideas and pursuits, Principe illuminates the practice. He vividly depicts the place of alchemy during its heyday in early modern Europe, and then explores how alchemy has fit into wider views of the cosmos and humanity.
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The Secrets of Alchemy
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 21-03-23
- Language: English
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In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture....
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