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The Blind Spot goes where no science book goes, urging us to create a new scientific culture that views ourselves both as an expression of nature and as a source of nature's self-understanding, so that humanity can flourish in the new millennium.

A new edition of a classic work that originated the "embodied cognition" movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.

In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special brand-new audio edition is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than 200 species. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—it also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin.

My name is Evan Atlas, and ​I'm a lifelong resident of the Hudson Valley, New York, United States, Earth. I love it here, and I'm on a mission to make it better. I'm a writer, philosopher, and metarevolutionary. Let's change the world!

Only those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper. In How to Love a Forest, he asks what it means to live in a time in which ecosystems are in retreat and extinctions rattle the bones of the earth. How do we respond to the harmful legacies of the past? How do we use our species’ incredible power to heal rather than to harm? Tapper walks us through the fragile and resilient community that is a forest.

Weird, wonderful, and sometimes disgusting, figuring out "what's for dinner on Mars" is far from trivial. If we can figure out how to sustain ourselves on Mars, we will know how to do it on Earth too. In Dinner on Mars, authors Fraser and Newman show how setting the table off-planet will supercharge efforts to produce food sustainably here at home. For futurists, sci-fi geeks, tech nuts, business leaders, and anyone interested in the future of food, Dinner on Mars puts sustainability and adaptability on the menu in the face of our climate crisis.

The Raised Beaches Podcast is a discussion on topics related to paleoclimate, Earth Science and global change. Dr. Evan J. Gowan highlights the concepts and underlying evidence on how climate, sea level and the Earth surface changes through time. He also connects how our knowledge of the past informs our predictions of future climate.

Morgan Meets the Eye is a podcast that examines economic, social, philosophical, and political issues through a libertarian lens. The host of the series, Evan Morgan, is a devoted follower of the Austrian School of economics, a school of thought based around individualism and as little government intervention as possible. Deeply interested in anarcho-capitalism and entrepreneurship, Morgan presents his perspective whether solo or with a guest. In short, Morgan Meets the Eye seeks to bring libertarian values to a wider audience while fostering discussion between different groups of people.

Folklore and legends reveal a lot about the cultures they originate from. In this podcast, we explore these tales from across America. Who are we? Where do we come from? And, most importantly, what scares us? Welcome to the Eerie USA Podcast, your home for American legends and folklore. Forgotten places, forgotten people.

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The Offshore Insights podcast serves as a conduit for unity, by using water as the connecting thread to the stories and individuals we meet. Through this form of communication, we aim to break down social & cultural barriers between seemingly disparate groups, helping us to better understand one another and the world that we share. This podcast generates intelligent, thoughtful and in-depth conversations within the global surf and water-oriented communities. Through a wide range of subjects, we challenge our listeners to explore the raw power of our natural environment and encourage them to ...

Discussing the birds and birding with the birders of Central Illinois and Allerton Park

One of the biggest issues were facing is BigTech’s hold over our daily lives. The Internet becoming is increasingly centralized to Amazon, Facebook, and Google. We’re enjoying the conveniences of these “free” services they offer but at what cost? Censorship Platform Risk etc.We’re already seeing the effects where businesses like TikTok are being shutdown by governments, comments and opinions censored by facebook and twitter. And for my crypto friends watching, I’m a huge believer of Ethereum but with 60% of nodes running on AWS and google cloud, it’s a bit disturbing that these ...

A weekly discussion regarding Science, Firearms the Day to Day and even Politics. Join us on our journey of nonsense and an attempt to learn more!!

Why do individuals smoke, drink excessively, and consume foods that are harmful to their health?How can ordinarily educated individuals come to believe in false news? Let's go back in time to Victorian England to find out.

Why are Homo sapiens a suicidal species? Why do people bring innocent children into this violent, overpopulated world? Why do people ignore the mounting evidence of environmental collapse? Why is humanity courting its own extinction? In addressing these questions, Field Guide to a New Species identifies two species of human Homo sapiens, which have been around for the last seventy thousand years or so, and Homo veritas, which are just evolving into being.

A new generation of urban homesteaders are leading the way in environmental consciousness and sustainable living in a world of consumerism and imposing climate change. Learn the skills, habits, and choices that you can make to become more self-reliant in an urban setting and to reduce your mark on the world around you.

Learn all about dinosaurs, dogs, marine life and more in The Seeker Animals Collection! Includes Everything You Know About Dinosaurs Might Be Wrong, Why Dogs Are So Amazing, Under the Sea: A World Like No Other.

This book includes key presidential speeches on the exploration of space from President Kennedy to President Trump. It includes the fascinating speech that Nixon had written, and subsequently recorded, but fortunately never delivered. The speech was in the event that the Apollo 11 mission did not succeed. Others include Kennedy's bold 1961 speech setting out the goal of sending a man to the moon, which was then achieved within the decade.

Speed limits. Internet speeds. The speed of Earth. There are so many aspects of human life that are ruled by speed, even if we don’t realize it everyday. In this best of Seeker collection, you’ll learn how we decide speed limits, how fast a thought travels, how much acceleration the human body can take, and the simple discovery that let us fly faster than the speed of sound.