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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Written by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-26
- Language: English
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Written by: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon its first English publication in 1959, Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery revolutionized thinking about the scientific method. Largely an exploration of the demarcation problem, or what distinguishes science from non-science, Popper introduced and defended his concept of falsifability -- that scientific systems are ones open to empirical disconfirmation -- against the prevailing views of his day.
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-11
- Language: English
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Silk
- A World History
- Written by: Aarathi Prasad
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Throughout history, across cultures and countries, silk has reigned as the undeniable queen of fabrics, yet its origins and evolution remain a mystery. In a gorgeous and sweeping narrative, Silk weaves together its intricate story and the indelible mark it has left on humanity.
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Silk
- A World History
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-30
- Language: English
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Earthly Materials
- Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations
- Written by: Cutter Wood
- Length: 12 hrs
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Bill Bryson’s The Body meets Mary Roach’s Gulp (with a dash of What’s Your Poo Telling You?) in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions—from mucus to sweat to poop—revealing them to be as fascinating as they are embarrassing and proving how essential they are to human health.
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Earthly Materials
- Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 2025-01-14
- Language: English
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Living on Earth
- Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
- Written by: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years—most of our planet’s history and over a quarter of the age of the universe (as far as we can tell). What have these organisms—bacteria, animals, plants, and the rest—done in all this time? In Living on Earth, the philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith proposes a new way of understanding how the actions of living beings have shaped our planet.
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Living on Earth
- Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-03
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Garden
- A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in Besieged Leningrad
- Written by: Simon Parkin
- Length: 10 hrs
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From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who were faced with an impossible choice during the Second World War’s Siege of Leningrad: eat the seeds to stave off starvation, or protect their life’s work to potentially end world hunger?
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The Forbidden Garden
- A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in Besieged Leningrad
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 2024-10-15
- Language: English
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Crisis Averted
- The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
- Written by: Caitlin Rivers PhD
- Length: 12 hrs
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There are few visible markers of the accomplishments of public health. If epidemiologists do their jobs, nothing happens. An outbreak does not grow into an epidemic. A child does not go hungry. A would-be smoker never lights up. These achievements are rarely noticed or celebrated, but Caitlin Rivers lives for such victories. By making sure that things don’t happen, she and legions of scientists, practitioners, and policymakers change the course of history.
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Crisis Averted
- The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 2024-10-08
- Language: English
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Eclipse and Revelation
- Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts
- Written by: Henrike C. Lange, Tom McLeish
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Two questions guide this seven-year project: First, how can we approach the phenomenon, representation, and interpretation of total solar eclipses? Second, how can we heal the historical divide separating the natural sciences from the humanities, arts, history, and theology? The result of this interdisciplinary investigation into eclipses is an exciting look behind the scenes—into labs, archives, and museums, as well as around fieldwork in astronomy, meteorology, animal behavior, and ecophysiology.
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Eclipse and Revelation
- Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-07
- Language: English
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Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle Against Thalidomide
- Written by: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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As the FDA medical officer charged with reviewing Merrell Pharmaceutical’s application for approval in 1960–1961, Kelsey was unconvinced that there was sufficient evidence of the drug’s efficacy and safety. Despite substantial pressure, she held her ground for nineteen months while the extent of the drug’s worldwide damage became known—thousands of stillborn babies, as well as at least 10,000 children across forty-six countries born with severe deformities such as missing limbs, arms, and legs that resembled flippers, and improperly developed eyes, ears, and other organs.
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Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle Against Thalidomide
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-21
- Language: English
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Playing with Reality
- How Games Have Shaped Our World
- Written by: Kelly Clancy
- Length: 12 hrs
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We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to make predictions about the future. Games are an essential aspect of humanity and a powerful tool for modeling reality. They’re also a lot of fun. But games can be dangerous, especially when we mistake the model worlds of games for reality itself and let gamification co-opt human decision making. Playing with Reality explores the riveting history of games since the Enlightenment.
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Playing with Reality
- How Games Have Shaped Our World
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 2024-06-18
- Language: English
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Frostbite
- How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
- Written by: Nicola Twilley
- Narrated by: Nicola Twilley
- Length: 11 hrs
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In the developed world, we’ve reaped the benefits of refrigeration for more than a century, but the costs are catching up with us. We’ve eroded our connection to our food and redefined what “fresh” means. More important, refrigeration is one of the leading contributors to climate change. As the developing world races to build a US-style cold chain, Twilley asks: Can we reduce our dependence on refrigeration? Should we?
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Frostbite
- How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Nicola Twilley
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 2024-06-25
- Language: English
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