Beyond Weird
The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story
You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.
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How Life Works
- A User’s Guide to the New Biology
- Written by: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Philip Ball
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong. In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we...
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How Life Works
- A User’s Guide to the New Biology
- Narrated by: Philip Ball
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-07
- Language: English
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$28.13 or free with 30-day trial
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The Book of Minds
- How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
- Written by: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human? Sciences from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience, are seeking to understand minds in...
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The Book of Minds
- How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-26
- Language: English
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$26.85 or free with 30-day trial
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Beyond Weird
- Written by: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world...
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- By Joel on 2022-12-28
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Beyond Weird
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-18
- Language: English
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$21.82 or free with 30-day trial
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The Water Kingdom
- A Secret History of China
- Written by: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China's culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The...
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The Water Kingdom
- A Secret History of China
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2017-04-25
- Language: English
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$23.78 or free with 30-day trial
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The Modern Myths
- Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
- Written by: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries...
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The Modern Myths
- Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-19
- Language: English
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$25.76 or free with 30-day trial
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