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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
    • By: Bill Nye
    • Narrated by: Bill Nye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Everything All at Once is an exciting, inspiring call to unleash the power of the nerd mindset that exists within us all....

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....

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    • A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
    • By: Jennet Conant
    • Narrated by: John Kroft
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This is the untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history....

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    • Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • One of our most prominent medical historians presents an authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure....

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    • By: Ian Mortimer
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady, Ian Mortimer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 407 ratings
    • In a contest of change, which century from the past millennium would come up trumps? Find out....

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    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • By: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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    • Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
    • By: Byung-Chul Han
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Series: Byung-Chul Han: The Collected Audio Works
    • Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche.

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    • 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 Secret Science of Radar That Turned the Tide of the Second World War
    • By: Tom Whipple
    • Narrated by: Tom Whipple
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Summer 1939. War is coming....

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    • Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
    • By: David J. Chalmers
    • Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
    • Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds....

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    • The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World
    • By: Burton Feldman, Katherine Williams
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they faced....

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    • By: Michael Brooks
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • This is a landmark in science writing. It resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the 16th century....

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    • By: Nils J. Nilsson
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future....

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    • The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
    • By: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Henry Leyva
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian....

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    • Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
    • By: Kim TallBear
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives....

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    • An Optimistic Guide to What Comes Next
    • By: John Higgs
    • Narrated by: John Higgs
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • At some point in the 1980s we gave up on the future. Before then, we imagined wonderful days to come, free from disease, work and want, in television series like Star Trek or events such as the 1939 Futurama World Fair....

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