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El mundo y sus demonios
- La ciencia como una luz en la oscuridad
- By: Carl Sagan, Dolors Udina Abelló
- Narrated by: Jordi Llovet
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
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¿Estamos al borde de una nueva edad oscura de irracionalismo y superstición? En este libro conmovedor, el incomparable Carl Sagan demuestra con brillantez que el pensamiento científico es necesario para salvaguardar nuestras instituciones democráticas y nuestra civilización técnica. El mundo y sus demonios es el libro más personal de Sagan, y está lleno de historias humanas entrañables y reveladoras.
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El mundo y sus demonios
- La ciencia como una luz en la oscuridad
- Narrated by: Jordi Llovet
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-01-23
- Language: Spanish
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How to Talk to a Science Denier
- Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
- By: Lee McIntyre
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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"Climate change is a hoax - and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you." These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely uninformed - they are misinformed. They cite cherry-picked evidence, rely on fake experts, and believe conspiracy theories. How can we get them to change their minds and accept the facts when they don't believe in facts? In this book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it's important to do so. Science denial can kill.
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“How to Talk to Climate Alarmists”
- By Philip Garside on 12-02-24
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How to Talk to a Science Denier
- Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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Ignorance
- How It Drives Science
- By: Stuart Firestein
- Narrated by: David Copelin
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance - not knowledge - that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In fact, says Firestein, more often than not, science is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, and there may not be a cat in the room.
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Calling all Science Teachers!
- By Neil B on 23-05-20
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Ignorance
- How It Drives Science
- Narrated by: David Copelin
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-10-13
- Language: English
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The Glass Cage
- Automation and Us
- By: Nicholas Carr
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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In The Glass Cage, bestselling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Even as they bring ease to our lives, these programs are stealing something essential from us.
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Rich in detail and depth
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-20
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The Glass Cage
- Automation and Us
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-09-14
- Language: English
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The Physicist and the Philosopher
- Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
- By: Jimena Canales
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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Jimena Canales introduces listeners to the revolutionary ideas of Einstein and Bergson, describes how they dramatically collided in Paris, and traces how this clash of worldviews reverberated across the twentieth century. She shows how it provoked responses from figures such as Bertrand Russell and Martin Heidegger and carried repercussions for American pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanics.
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Useful backstory illuminating limits of science
- By Daren Messenger Samard Chisti on 20-02-20
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The Physicist and the Philosopher
- Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 26-05-15
- Language: English
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The Distraction Addiction
- By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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We've all found ourselves checking email at the dinner table, holding our breath while waiting for Outlook to load, or sitting hunched in front of a screen for an hour longer than we intended. Mobile devices and the web have invaded our lives, and this is a big idea book that addresses one of the biggest questions of our age: Can we stay connected without diminishing our intelligence, attention spans, and ability to really live? Can we have it all?
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Simple
- By Kindle Customer on 25-04-24
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The Distraction Addiction
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 17-08-13
- Language: English
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Heavens on Earth
- The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
- By: Dr. Michael Shermer
- Narrated by: Dr. Michael Shermer, David Smalley
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by radical life extentionists, extropians, transhumanists, cryonicists, and mind uploaders, along with utopians who have attempted to create heaven on earth.
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Boring and distasteful
- By Amazon Customer on 15-01-18
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Heavens on Earth
- The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
- Narrated by: Dr. Michael Shermer, David Smalley
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- Language: English
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The Self Delusion
- The Surprising Science of Our Connection to Each Other and the Natural World
- By: Tom Oliver
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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The Self Delusion is an explosive, powerful and inspiring book that brings together overwhelming evidence against the illusion we have of ourselves as independent beings - and explains how understanding our many connections may be the key to a better future.
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Cleverly links spirituality and science to re-ignite motivation to save our planet
- By Dr BRIELI on 30-07-24
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The Self Delusion
- The Surprising Science of Our Connection to Each Other and the Natural World
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-01-20
- Language: English
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Humanology
- A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence
- By: Luke O’Neill
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke O’Neill explains how it all began, how it will all end and everything in between. Listeners will benefit from Luke’s insatiable curiosity for life when they dive into this ultimate journey through life and death. Among other fascinating facts, you’ll discover the science behind how we got to be so smart, why sex with a caveman was a good idea, the science of finding love, why we follow religions and how robots will become part of everyday life.
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Incredibly fascinating and humbling
- By Iain on 03-03-20
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Humanology
- A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-02-20
- Language: English
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Histoire de France, de Clovis à Napoléon
- By: Jacques Bainville
- Narrated by: Philippe Colin
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Quand il était au collège, Jacques Bainville n'aimait pas l'histoire. Que discerner dans ce tissu de drames sans suite, cette mêlée, ce chaos...
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Histoire de France, de Clovis à Napoléon
- Narrated by: Philippe Colin
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-02-14
- Language: French
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The Rocks Don't Lie
- By: David R. Montgomery
- Narrated by: Gary Telles
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah’s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating theworld’s flood stories and - drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, and scientists - discovered the counterintuitive role Noah’s Flood played in the development of both geology and creationism.
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The Rocks Don't Lie
- Narrated by: Gary Telles
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-05-13
- Language: English
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The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics
- Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts (Reflections by Jeff Carreira)
- By: Jeff Carreira
- Narrated by: Jeff Carreira
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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This book is about science and how it works. It is about what it means for a paradigm to shift and what it really takes to shift it. And it is about the strange and unusual world of quantum physics and what it tells us about who we are. At the start of the 20th Century, a dramatic revolution in science occurred. Over the course of a few decades our most fundamental notions of time, space and consciousness were all being called into question. In undeniable ways, it became clear that the nature of reality is intimately interwoven with our experience of it.
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The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics
- Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts (Reflections by Jeff Carreira)
- Narrated by: Jeff Carreira
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 11-01-24
- Language: English
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Patterns of Connection
- Essential Essays from Five Decades
- By: Fritjof Capra
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Fritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, presents the evolution of his thought over five decades in Patterns of Connection. First introduced in the late 1950s to the work of Werner Heisenberg, a founder of quantum mechanics, Capra quickly intuited the connections between the discoveries of quantum physics and the traditions of Eastern philosophy - resulting in his first book, the best-selling The Tao of Physics.
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Listen before you buy
- By jm49 on 07-04-22
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Patterns of Connection
- Essential Essays from Five Decades
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 30-11-21
- Language: English
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In the Mind of the Universe
- The Monad and You!
- By: Dennis William Hauck
- Narrated by: Cooper Monroe
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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In your life, your Personal Monad is the singularity in your own consciousness, the point of view from which you experience the world. You are conscious because the universe is conscious, and the commonplace experience of being a single point of awareness in your own mind—of being whole in your own little world—is a reflection of the Greater Monad in you. The focus in this book is on your relationship to the Greater Monad. Whatever the ultimate truth of the universe, that is not going to change.
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In the Mind of the Universe
- The Monad and You!
- Narrated by: Cooper Monroe
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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All Life Is Problem Solving
- By: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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All Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in his theory of science, and indicates his view of the state of the world at the end of the Cold War and after the collapse of communism.
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Excellent book
- By Mr. X. Dijo on 18-08-24
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All Life Is Problem Solving
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-10-23
- Language: English
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In Light-Years There's No Hurry
- Cosmic Perspectives on Everyday Life
- By: Marjolijn van Heemstra, Jonathan Reeder - translator
- Narrated by: Mounya Dahma
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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How seeing Earth through the eyes of an astronaut brings new wonder and meaning to life on our planet.
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In Light-Years There's No Hurry
- Cosmic Perspectives on Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Mounya Dahma
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 20-06-23
- Language: English
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Time Machine Tales
- The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
- By: Paul J. Nahin
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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This audiobook contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author’s earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no tech notes filled with algebra, integrals, and differential equations, as there are in the first and second editions of Time Machines.
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Time Machine Tales
- The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Series: The Science and Fiction Series
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-07-21
- Language: English
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Discourse on Method and the Meditations
- By: René Descartes
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, and this soon came to replace the traditional techniques derived from Aristotle.
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Discourse on Method and the Meditations
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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The Coming Wave (German edition)
- Technologie, Macht und das größte Dilemma des 21. Jahrhunderts
- By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar, Andreas Wirthensohn - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Florens Schmidt
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Künstliche Intelligenz ist die Coming Wave, der nächste technologische Sprung, der sich nicht aufhalten lässt. Wir nähern uns einem kritischen Punkt in der Menschheitsgeschichte. Die Künstliche Intelligenz steht noch am Anfang, doch die Welle baut sich auf, und wir sind darauf nicht vorbereitet. Mustafa Suleyman ist Mitbegründer von DeepMind, dem KI-Pionier, der nun Teil von Alphabet ist, dem Google-Mutterkonzern. Er ist der ultimative KI-Insider. Sein Buch zeigt, was auf dem Spiel steht, und fragt, wie wir von den neuen Technologien profitieren können, ohne die Kontrolle zu verlieren.
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The Coming Wave (German edition)
- Technologie, Macht und das größte Dilemma des 21. Jahrhunderts
- Narrated by: Florens Schmidt
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-03-24
- Language: German
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The Darkness Manifesto
- How Light Pollution Threatens the Ancient Rhythms of Life
- By: Johan Eklöf, Dr Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
- Narrated by: Owen Findlay
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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The world's flora and fauna have evolved to operate in the natural cycle of day and night. But constant illumination has made light pollution a major issue. From space, our planet glows brightly, 24/7. By extending our day, we have forced out the inhabitants of the night and disrupted the circadian rhythms necessary to sustain all living things. Our cities' streetlamps and neon signs are altering entire ecosystems. As a devoted friend of the night, Johan Eklöf encourages us to appreciate natural darkness, its creatures and its unique benefits.
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The Darkness Manifesto
- How Light Pollution Threatens the Ancient Rhythms of Life
- Narrated by: Owen Findlay
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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