Natural Philosophy
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Darwin's Black Box
- The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
- By: Michael J. Behe
- Narrated by: Marc William
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning". Discussing the book in the New Yorker in May 2005, H. Allen Orr said of Behe, "He is the most prominent of the small circle of scientists working on intelligent design, and his arguments are by far the best known."
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Facts
- By Anonymous User on 05-10-19
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Darwin's Black Box
- The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
- Narrated by: Marc William
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning"....
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Agrippa's Occult Philosophy
- Natural Magic (Dover Books on the Occult)
- By: Henry Cornelius Agrippa
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Written by a legendary scholar of Renaissance esoterica, this is the single most important text in the history of Western occultism, Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) combined classical Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy with elements of the Jewish Kabbalah and Christianity to form a systematic exposition of occult knowledge. Agrippa's view of divine order was subsequently eclipsed by the materialism and atheism of the Enlightenment, but 500 years later, his influential work endures as a cornerstone of mystic literature.
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Agrippa's Occult Philosophy
- Natural Magic (Dover Books on the Occult)
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Series: Of Occult Philosophy or of Magical Ceremonies
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-02-24
- Language: English
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Written by a legendary scholar of Renaissance esoterica, this is the single most important text in the history of Western occultism, Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) combined classical Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy with elements of the Jewish Kabbalah.
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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- By: David Christian
- Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History", the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.
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A Very Good Effort
- By Gareth on 22-06-18
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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
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A captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future....
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The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
- By: William Lane Craig - editor, J.P. Moreland - editor
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 43 hrs and 40 mins
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With the help of in-depth essays from some of the world's leading philosophers, The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology explores the nature and existence of God through human reason and evidence from the natural world.
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This needs the print text
- By Dennis Sommers on 12-08-23
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The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 43 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 09-08-22
- Language: English
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With the help of in-depth essays from some of the world's leading philosophers, The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology explores the nature and existence of God through human reason and evidence from the natural world....
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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Spellbinding
- By Milkmoon Mama on 24-02-20
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 27-12-15
- Language: English
- As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- By: Christopher Ryan
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending - balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the "progress" defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease.
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This book is life changing
- By Jack on 29-10-19
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-10-19
- Language: English
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The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....
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Effortless Living
- Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
- By: Jason Gregory, Damo Mitchell - foreword
- Narrated by: Jason Gregory
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Merging Taoist philosophy, Hindu principles, and Confucianism along with scientific findings, Jason Gregory outlines the practice of wu-wei as a vehicle to realize our innate freedom, revealing that when we release our ego and allow life to unfold as it will, we align ourselves more closely with our goals and cultivate skill and mastery along the way. Equating "being in the zone" with a stillness of the mind, Gregory shares meditation practices coupled with yoga exercises from Patanjali that allow you to approach life with a mastery of acceptance.
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Not worth you time
- By Amazon Customer on 02-01-21
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Effortless Living
- Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
- Narrated by: Jason Gregory
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 17-09-19
- Language: English
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Merging Taoist philosophy, Hindu principles, and Confucianism along with scientific findings, Jason Gregory outlines the practice of wu-wei as a vehicle to realize our innate freedom....
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Natural
- The Seductive Myth of Nature's Goodness
- By: Alan Levinovitz
- Narrated by: Joe McQuillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make terrible sacrifices in its name: of our money, our health and our planet. That deity is nature itself. From supermarket shoppers to evolutionary biologists, from atheists to pastors, from Alex Jones to Gwyneth Paltrow, we are all prone to the intuitive faith that life should be lived 'naturally'.
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Natural
- The Seductive Myth of Nature's Goodness
- Narrated by: Joe McQuillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make terrible sacrifices in its name: of our money, our health and our planet. That deity is nature itself....
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The Monkey's Voyage
- How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
- By: Alan de Queiroz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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How did species wind up where they are today? Scientists have long conjectured that plants and animals dispersed throughout the world by drifting on large landmasses as they broke up, but in The Monkey’s Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz offers a radical new theory that displaces this passive view.
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The Monkey's Voyage
- How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 07-01-14
- Language: English
- The Monkey’s Voyage is a beautifully told narrative of a profound investigation into the importance of contingency in history and the nature of scientific discovery....
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Natural Beauty
- A Novel
- By: Ling Ling Huang
- Narrated by: Carolyn Kang
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also talented musicians—who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But when an accident leaves her parents debilitated, she abandons her future for a job at a high-end beauty and wellness store in New York City.
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Interesting Concept
- By Susan on 11-09-24
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Natural Beauty
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Carolyn Kang
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-04-23
- Language: English
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Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.
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Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Natural History of Innovation
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Eric Singer
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward.
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Tech history snip bits
- By paul mullen on 03-03-20
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Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Natural History of Innovation
- Narrated by: Eric Singer
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-10-10
- Language: English
- What sparks the flash of brilliance? One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on - in exhilarating style - one of our key questions....
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The Biology Book
- Big Ideas
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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The Biology Book is packed with short, pithy explanations of more than 95 momentous ideas in science, from cell theory to evolution by natural selection. Themed chapters explore key areas of the life sciences including ecology, zoology and biotechnology, tracing the history of scientific thought and introducing the scientists who shaped the subject, such as Carl Linnaeus, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel. Coverage of topical issues such as cloning, neuroscience, human evolution and gene-editing brings the story right up to date.
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The Biology Book
- Big Ideas
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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The Biology Book is packed with short, pithy explanations of more than 95 momentous ideas in science, from cell theory to evolution by natural selection....
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The Last of Its Kind
- The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
- By: Gisli Palsson
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gisli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species.
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The Last of Its Kind
- The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-07-24
- Language: English
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The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844.
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Breaking the Spell
- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why - and how - it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma.
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I just can't get past the condescending tone
- By Mark on 11-03-14
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Breaking the Spell
- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 28-10-13
- Language: English
- Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma....
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The Essential Natural Law
- Essential Scholars
- By: Samuel Gregg
- Narrated by: Charity Spencer
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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Few ideas have been as influential in the development of moral, political, legal, and economic thought in the broad Western tradition as the idea of natural law. It is also true that the understanding of natural law and its influence on specific norms and institutions—rights, justice, private property, rule of law, limited government—is not anywhere near as widespread in the 21st century as it was just 100 years ago.
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The Essential Natural Law
- Essential Scholars
- Narrated by: Charity Spencer
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-05-23
- Language: English
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Few ideas have been as influential in the development of moral, political, legal, and economic thought in the broad Western tradition as the idea of natural law....
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Sacred Nature
- How We Can Recover Our Bond with the Natural World
- By: Karen Armstrong
- Narrated by: Karen Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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For most of human history nature was held to be sacred and our God or gods were believed to be present everywhere in nature. When people in the West began to separate God and nature in the 17th century, it was not just a profound breach with thousands of years of accumulated wisdom and experience: it was also the root of how we have come to plunder the natural world and to promote our individual selves in unhealthy and destructive ways. Karen Armstrong argues that if we want to avert the looming environmental catastrophe, it is not enough to change our behaviour.
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An extraordinary book
- By Garfield Braithwaite on 09-12-22
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Sacred Nature
- How We Can Recover Our Bond with the Natural World
- Narrated by: Karen Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 30-06-22
- Language: English
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Sacred Nature is a book about 'deep ecology': it is about the most profound connections between humans and the natural world....
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 23 hrs and 9 mins
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The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the 19th century and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. Though, in fact, little read, most people know what it says—at least they think they do. The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion.
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A fantastically interesting 'read'
- By Konrad on 13-07-13
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 23 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-10-11
- Language: English
- The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion....
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Horizons
- A Global History of Science
- By: James Poskett
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. Science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour. Horizons pushes beyond Europe, exploring the ways in which scientists from Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific fit into the history of science, and arguing that it is best understood as a story of global cultural exchange.
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The Curate's Egg
- By The Phantom Agent on 16-09-22
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Furnace of Creation, Cradle of Destruction
- A Journey to the Birthplace of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
- By: Roy Chester
- Narrated by: Bill Weideman
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Over the past few years, devastating tsunamis off the coast of the Indian Ocean have killed hundreds of thousands of people. Even more alarmingly, scientists predict that these tsunamis, as well as a series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, will be striking with even greater frequency and may eventually threaten Hawaii, California, and Oregon.
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Furnace of Creation, Cradle of Destruction
- A Journey to the Birthplace of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
- Narrated by: Bill Weideman
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 07-07-08
- Language: English
- Over the past few years, devastating tsunamis off the coast of the Indian Ocean have killed hundreds of thousands of people....
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?
As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.
It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just
during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.
This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death.
Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.-
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What a gem!
- By Fichops on 11-04-21
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 14-05-13
- Language: English
- In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes....
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