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  • Pandora’s Lab cover art

    • Pandora’s Lab

    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • By: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 653 ratings
    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

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    • Ten Drugs

    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 474 ratings

    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

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    • Vital Organs

    • By: Suzie Edge
    • Narrated by: Suzie Edge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings

    • A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....

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    • Atomic Accidents

    • A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....

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    • Galileo's New Universe

    • The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos
    • By: Stephen P. Maran, Laurence A. Marschall
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The historical and social implications of the telescope and that instruments modern-day significance are brought into startling focus in this fascinating account....

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    • What the F

    • What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
    • By: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Smart as hell and funny as f--k, What the F is mandatory listening for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear....

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    • Origin Story

    • A Big History of Everything
    • By: David Christian
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings

    • A captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future....

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    • A Brief History of Earth

    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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    • Blood and Guts

    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

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    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 26-02-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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    • Apollo 11

    • The Inside Story
    • By: David Whitehouse
    • Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • In the most authoritative book ever written about Apollo, David Whitehouse reveals the true drama behind the mission, telling the story in the words of those who took part - based around exclusive interviews with the key players....

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    • The Invisible Rainbow

    • A History of Electricity and Life
    • By: Arthur Firstenberg
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings

    • Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....

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    • Maverick Mountaineer

    • By: Robert Wainwright
    • Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The first full-length biography of George Ingle Finch - maverick Australian mountaineer, scientist, concert pianist and father of actor Peter Finch....

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    • You Don't Want to Know

    • By: James Felton
    • Narrated by: James Buckley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings

    • In this audiobook, you'll find the maddest, strangest and downright grossest stories from history and science that you don't want to know....

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    • The Clockwork Universe

    • Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
    • By: Edward Dolnick
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine....

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    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

    • The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
    • By: Richard P. Feynman
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....

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    • A Beautiful Mind

    • By: Sylvia Nasar
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians....

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    • The Icepick Surgeon

    • Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost....

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