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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
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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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Charged
- A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
- By: James Morton Turner
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving "the battery problem" is critical to a clean energy transition. As climate activists focus on what a clean energy future will create the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building that future will consume. With new insight on the consequences for people and communities on the front lines, Turner draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a just and clean energy future, from the ground up.
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Serendipity
- The Unexpected in Science
- By: Telmo Pievani, Michael Gerard Kenyon - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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How many times have we looked for something and found something else? A partner, a job, an object? The same thing often happens to scientists: they design an experiment and discover the unexpected, which usually turns out to be very important. This fascinating phenomenon is called serendipity, which takes its name from the mythical Serendip, a place from which, according to a Persian fable, three princes set off to explore the world, making chance discoveries along the way.
By: Telmo Pievani, and others
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Wonder Why? Fascinating Stories, Fun Facts, Questions & Answers About the Mysteries of Science, History, Pop Culture, and Traditions Around the World!
- Interesting Tales for Curious Minds
- By: Riddleland
- Narrated by: Rebekah Amber Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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Like many people, you’ve probably asked some of these questions when you were younger or maybe recently. Well, you will be pleasantly surprised to discover the interesting and maybe slightly bizarre origins of the strange things we do. In Wonder Why? Fascinating Stories, Curious Facts, and Answers About the Mysteries of Science, History, Pop Culture, and Traditions Around the World cover 55 of the most regularly asked questions with fascinating origin stories.
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An Entertaining Learning Experience
- By D.Lynch on 16-11-24
By: Riddleland
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Hidden in the Heavens
- How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own
- By: Jason Steffen
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Are we alone in the universe? It's a fundamental question for Earth-dwelling humankind. Are there other worlds like ours, out there somewhere? In Hidden in the Heavens, Jason Steffen, a former scientist on NASA's Kepler mission, describes how that mission searched for planets orbiting Sun-like stars—especially Earth-like planets circulating in Earth-like orbits.
By: Jason Steffen
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La mobilità elettrica
- Storia, tecnologia, futuro
- By: Alessandro Abbotto
- Narrated by: Maurizio Di Girolamo
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Il settore dei trasporti, in particolare quello su strada, è responsabile di un quarto delle emissioni di gas serra e i combustibili fossili che utilizza producono sostanze tossiche per l’uomo e per l’ambiente, oltre a essere soggetti a oscillazioni di prezzo per ragioni geopolitiche. La mobilità elettrica sta emergendo negli ultimi anni per dare una risposta efficace a questi e altri problemi, nella prospettiva di un pianeta sempre più decarbonizzato secondo gli obiettivi già stabiliti dai governi e dai trattati internazionali.
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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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Charged
- A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
- By: James Morton Turner
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving "the battery problem" is critical to a clean energy transition. As climate activists focus on what a clean energy future will create the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building that future will consume. With new insight on the consequences for people and communities on the front lines, Turner draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a just and clean energy future, from the ground up.
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Serendipity
- The Unexpected in Science
- By: Telmo Pievani, Michael Gerard Kenyon - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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How many times have we looked for something and found something else? A partner, a job, an object? The same thing often happens to scientists: they design an experiment and discover the unexpected, which usually turns out to be very important. This fascinating phenomenon is called serendipity, which takes its name from the mythical Serendip, a place from which, according to a Persian fable, three princes set off to explore the world, making chance discoveries along the way.
By: Telmo Pievani, and others
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Wonder Why? Fascinating Stories, Fun Facts, Questions & Answers About the Mysteries of Science, History, Pop Culture, and Traditions Around the World!
- Interesting Tales for Curious Minds
- By: Riddleland
- Narrated by: Rebekah Amber Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Like many people, you’ve probably asked some of these questions when you were younger or maybe recently. Well, you will be pleasantly surprised to discover the interesting and maybe slightly bizarre origins of the strange things we do. In Wonder Why? Fascinating Stories, Curious Facts, and Answers About the Mysteries of Science, History, Pop Culture, and Traditions Around the World cover 55 of the most regularly asked questions with fascinating origin stories.
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An Entertaining Learning Experience
- By D.Lynch on 16-11-24
By: Riddleland
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Hidden in the Heavens
- How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own
- By: Jason Steffen
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Are we alone in the universe? It's a fundamental question for Earth-dwelling humankind. Are there other worlds like ours, out there somewhere? In Hidden in the Heavens, Jason Steffen, a former scientist on NASA's Kepler mission, describes how that mission searched for planets orbiting Sun-like stars—especially Earth-like planets circulating in Earth-like orbits.
By: Jason Steffen
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La mobilità elettrica
- Storia, tecnologia, futuro
- By: Alessandro Abbotto
- Narrated by: Maurizio Di Girolamo
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Il settore dei trasporti, in particolare quello su strada, è responsabile di un quarto delle emissioni di gas serra e i combustibili fossili che utilizza producono sostanze tossiche per l’uomo e per l’ambiente, oltre a essere soggetti a oscillazioni di prezzo per ragioni geopolitiche. La mobilità elettrica sta emergendo negli ultimi anni per dare una risposta efficace a questi e altri problemi, nella prospettiva di un pianeta sempre più decarbonizzato secondo gli obiettivi già stabiliti dai governi e dai trattati internazionali.
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Poder y progreso
- Nuestra lucha milenaria por la tecnología y la prosperidad
- By: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Alexandre Casanovas López - traductor
- Narrated by: Santiago Gómez, Simon Gómez
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
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Los prestigiosos economistas Daron Acemoglu y Simon Johnson demuestran que el desarrollo técnico es indispensable para el avance de la democracia. El progreso no es un destino predeterminado, sino que depende de las elecciones que hagamos sobre la tecnología. Esta reflexión resulta muy pertinente en un mundo donde los avances digitales y la robótica amenazan a nuestros empleos y a nuestras democracias a través de la automatización excesiva, la recopilación masiva de datos y la vigilancia intrusiva.
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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Longevidade [Longevity]
- Uma breve história de como e por que vivemos mais [A Brief History of How and Why We Live Longer]
- By: Steven Johnson, Claudio Carina - translator
- Narrated by: Rodrigo Chueri
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Do autor de Como chegamos até aqui e De onde vêm as boas ideias, a surpreendente história de como nós humanos ganhamos 20 mil dias a mais em nossas vidas. Buscando respostas para os desafios atuais e do futuro, Longevidade é uma ode ao poder duradouro dos objetivos comuns. Todos os avanços do mundo moderno — o método científico, as descobertas médicas, as instituições de saúde pública — proporcionaram a cada um de nós cerca de cinco décadas a mais de existência. Steven Johnson, um dos mais influentes pensadores da tecnologia, traça aqui os meandros dessa evolução.
By: Steven Johnson, and others
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Bicicletas para la mente
- El viaje desde el primer PC hasta la inteligencia artificial
- By: Francesc Bracero
- Narrated by: Santiago Gómez, Simon Gómez
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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La gran historia que transcurre entre la llegada del ordenador personal y la irrupción de la inteligencia artificial. A las puertas de un mundo dominado por la inteligencia artificial y las gafas de "realidad extendida", cabe preguntarse dónde empezó todo, cómo pasamos del pequeño garaje de Palo Alto en el que Hewlett y Packard revolucionaron la informática a un presente dirigido por los chips.
By: Francesc Bracero
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Infoxicación
- Identidad, afectos y memoria; o sobre la mutación tecnocultural
- By: Margot Rot
- Narrated by: Sara Martín, Martín Osborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Margot Rot nos invita a reflexionar sobre la relación que hay entre las experiencias emocionales a través de las pantallas y la creación de nuestras identidades. ¿Qué son nuestras emociones sino la expresión múltiple de aquello que deseamos, o de aquello que no deseamos? ¿Qué es el deseo sino el ímpetu a través del cual se erige una identidad? La virtualidad ha modificado nuestro modo de percibir el tiempo y el espacio y, por ende, nuestro modo de percibir la realidad.
By: Margot Rot
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Viaje al centro de los manicomios
- By: Fernando Gómez Hernández
- Narrated by: Santiago Gómez, Simon Gómez
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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No encontrarás una descripción de edificios que albergaron a locos, sino matices y anécdotas de los locos y los cuerdos que los habitaron. El protagonista de los dos libros anteriores (sobre cementerios y cárceles) escribe cartas al autor durante la pandemia y en cada una le habla de un manicomio diferente. Los relatos están plagados de anécdotas, unas muy desagradables y otras más asequibles, incluso las hay divertidas y, sin duda, todas sorprendentes. No se recrea en el morbo, provoca que el lector se enganche y quiera saber, pero sin sufrir más de la cuenta.
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In the Shadow of the Black Plague
- Disease, Survival, and Human Legacy (Pandemics, Book 1)
- By: Santiago Machain
- Narrated by: Santiago Machain
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
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This book offers a detailed exploration of the Black Plague's journey through medieval Europe, Asia, and Africa. While it details the human suffering and societal breakdowns caused by the pandemic, it also highlights the remarkable resilience of the survivors. The book examines how the plague sparked innovation in public health, inspired artistic and literary masterpieces, and transformed social structures, ultimately leading to the cultural rebirth of the Renaissance.
By: Santiago Machain