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Rise of the Rocket Girls
- The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
- By: Nathalia Holt
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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In the 1940s and '50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.
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Rise of the Rocket Girls
- The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 05-04-16
- Language: English
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The Evolutionary Edge
- A BBC Radio 4 Nature Series
- By: Lucy Cooke
- Narrated by: Lucy Cooke
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Award-winning broadcaster, best-selling author and zoologist Lucy Cooke has produced and presented numerous natural history shows on TV and radio, and has been tipped by The Times as 'the next David Attenborough'. In this BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast under the title The Power Of..., she delves into the animal kingdom, exploring what gives certain species the evolutionary edge over their rivals.
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The Evolutionary Edge
- A BBC Radio 4 Nature Series
- Narrated by: Lucy Cooke
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-05-22
- Language: English
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Advent of the Algorithm
- The Idea that Rules the World
- By: David Berlinski
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds of the greatest thinkers in the world, the algorithm is what made the modern world possible. Without the algorithm, there would have been no computer, no Internet, no virtual reality, no e-mail, or any other technological advance that we rely on every day.
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Advent of the Algorithm
- The Idea that Rules the World
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-11-13
- Language: English
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System
- The Shaping of Modern Knowledge (Infrastructures)
- By: Clifford Siskin
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer (Windows 10), or be made on a page (the 14 engineered lines of a sonnet). In this book, Clifford Siskin shows that system is best understood as a genre - a form that works physically in the world to mediate our efforts to understand it. Indeed, many Enlightenment authors published works they called "system" to compete with the essay and the treatise.
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System
- The Shaping of Modern Knowledge (Infrastructures)
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 28-10-16
- Language: English
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Women in Science
- Then and Now
- By: Vivian Gornick
- Narrated by: Madelyn Buzzard
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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In this revised 25th-anniversary edition, acclaimed writer and journalist Vivian Gornick interviews famous and lesser-known scientists, compares their experiences then and now, and shows that, although not much has changed in the world of science, what is different is women's expectations that they can and will succeed.
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Women in Science
- Then and Now
- Narrated by: Madelyn Buzzard
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-04-21
- 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. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately - childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared - they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.
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The worst narration I have ever come across.
- By Caroline on 13-06-21
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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: 30-06-20
- Language: English
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Darwin's Origin of Species
- A Biography
- By: Janet Browne
- Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today.
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Worthy but dull
- By Allan on 16-02-08
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Darwin's Origin of Species
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
- Series: Books That Changed the World
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-03-07
- Language: English
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Mapping the Heavens
- The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
- By: Priyamvada Natarajan
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Mapping the Heavens provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is at the forefront of the research - an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe.
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Science at its best
- By Grahan Price on 01-03-23
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Mapping the Heavens
- The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 26-04-16
- Language: English
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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
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Ambassadors from Earth relates the story of the first unmanned space probes and planetary explorers - from the Sputnik and Explorer satellites launched in the late 1950's to the thrilling interstellar Voyager missions of the '70's - that yielded some of the most celebrated successes and spectacular failures of the space age. Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the Americans and Soviets who conceived, built, and guided those unmanned missions to the planets and beyond.
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excellent book, excellent narration
- By Becky Marlow on 07-05-21
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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-03-20
- Language: English
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Vitamin C
- A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
- By: Stephen M. Sagar MD
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Vitamin C begins with scurvy, which afflicted Europe for four hundred years and killed millions. The reasons that a disease whose cure was known from the outset persisted over that time are at once baffling and familiar, and these trials eventually lead to invention of the science of epidemiology. Author Stephen M. Sagar MD then chronicles the discovery of vitamins at the beginning of the twentieth century, a story that encapsulates the rise of a scientific approach to nutrition but with surprising twists and turns.
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Vitamin C
- A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 30-08-22
- Language: English
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Burning the Sky
- Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
- By: Mark Wolverton
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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After the Soviet Union proved to the United States that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Amid this rising tension, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: detonating nuclear warheads in space to create an artificial radiation belt that would fry incoming ICBMs. Known as Operation Argus, this plan is the most secret and riskiest experiment in history, and classified details of these nuclear tests have been long obscured.
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Fascinating.
- By Craig on 23-06-19
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Burning the Sky
- Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 11-12-18
- Language: English
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Testosterone
- Sex, Power, and the Will to Win
- By: Joe Herbert
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past - none so obviously as those involved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies the organization of activation of masculinity: It changes the body and brain to make a male. It is involved not only in sexuality but in driving aggression, competitiveness, risk-taking - all elements that were needed for successful survival and reproduction in the past. But these ancient systems are carried forward into a modern world.
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Testosterone
- Sex, Power, and the Will to Win
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-06-15
- Language: English
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Louis Pasteur: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary French Scientist Recognized as the Father of Microbiology
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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While it would be impossible to name every individual who has contributed to the ever-advancing field of science, it almost goes without saying that one of the most important was Louis Pasteur, father of microbiology and modern immunology. Apart from propelling the field of vaccination to new heights, this visionary scientist would also revolutionize a significant part of the beverage industry, and highlight the importance of sterilization. These are only some of the extraordinary achievements on Louis' glaring résumé, one so well-rounded and extensive that it beggars belief.
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Louis Pasteur: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary French Scientist Recognized as the Father of Microbiology
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 14-04-18
- Language: English
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Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World
- By: Catherine Whitlock, Rhodri Evans
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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With a foreword by Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge and Master of Churchill College. Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements. These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often simply because they were women. Their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events.
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Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-02-19
- Language: English
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Gravity's Century
- From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
- By: Ron Cowen
- Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved place of gravity in quantum theory.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Amber Geddes on 26-11-22
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Gravity's Century
- From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
- Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-05-19
- Language: English
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Death by Shakespeare
- Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
- By: Kathryn Harkup
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die.
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Fascinating!
- By Ian Smith on 31-03-20
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Death by Shakespeare
- Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-03-20
- Language: English
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AC/DC
- The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
- By: Tom McNichol
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Long before there was VHS versus Betamax, Windows versus Macintosh, or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the first and nastiest standards war was fought over how electricity would be transmitted around the world: alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC). The savage showdown between AC and DC changed the lives of billions of people, shaped the modern technological age, and set the stage for all standards wars to follow.
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Informative and fascinating!
- By Darren M on 28-06-21
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AC/DC
- The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-05-08
- Language: English
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Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World
- How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: Mark Peachey
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to 10 separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see how each breakthrough has influenced our lives.
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Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World
- How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Mark Peachey
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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God's Equation
- Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
- By: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Kent Broadhurst
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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The product of research around the globe and interviews with dozens of prominent scientists, God's Equation tells us it is almost as though Einstein were God's mouthpiece, revealing the most fundamental truths about our larger environment, truths scientists are just now confirming.
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Tedious in the extreme
- By Simon Pegg on 04-12-06
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God's Equation
- Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
- Narrated by: Kent Broadhurst
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 30-11-00
- Language: English
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
- By: John Tresch
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. He remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues.
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-06-21
- Language: English
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