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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- Written by: David Christian
- Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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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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complex energy flows
- By munnyman5 on 2018-09-24
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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-22
- Language: English
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Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime
- Written by: Benjamin Schumacher, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Benjamin Schumacher
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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Gravity controls everything from the falling of an apple to the rising of ocean’s tides to the motions of the heavens above. If you’ve ever wondered how this most puzzling force works across our entire universe, you will be delighted by this 24-part course that is accessible to any curious person, regardless of your science education. No other product on the market presents the subject of gravity in as much detail as this course, which will follow the past 400 years of research and experimentation in the field.
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Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime
- Narrated by: Benjamin Schumacher
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-05
- Language: English
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The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
- Written by: Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Everything we now know about the universe - from the behavior of quarks to the birth of galaxies - has come from people who've been willing to ponder the unanswerable. And with the advent of modern science, great minds have turned to testing and experimentation rather than mere thought as a way of grappling with some of the universe's most vexing dilemmas. So what is our latest picture of some of the most inexplicable features of the universe? What still remains to be uncovered and explored by today's scientists?
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Love Neil!
- By Michael Todorovic on 2019-05-24
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The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Series: The Great Courses: Astronomy
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2014-08-01
- Language: English
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Imagined Life
- A Speculative Scientific Journey among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals
- Written by: James Trefil, Michael Summers
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring listeners on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life-unlike anything we have experienced so far - that could exist on planets outside our own solar system.
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Imagined Life
- A Speculative Scientific Journey among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-17
- Language: English
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Out There
- A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
- Written by: Michael Wall
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books, movies, and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it. In Out There, Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall treats that question as merely the beginning, touching off a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier. He considers, for instance, the myriad of questions that would arise once we do discover life beyond Earth (an eventuality which, top NASA officials told Wall, is only drawing closer).
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Out There
- A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-13
- Language: English
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The First Three Minutes
- A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
- Written by: Steven Weinberg
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Now updated with a major new afterword that incorporates the latest cosmological research, this classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel prize-winning physicist explains to general readers what happened when the Universe began, and how we know.
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The First Three Minutes
- A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2004-12-16
- Language: English
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- Written by: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
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Audie Award, History/Biography, 2016. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 of the 24 moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail.
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
- Release date: 2015-10-13
- Language: English
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The Life and Death of Stars
- Written by: Keivan G. Stassun, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Keivan G. Stassun
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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We understand the stars at a much deeper level, not as legendary figures connected with constellations, but as engines of matter, energy, and the raw material of life itself. The Life and Death of Stars introduces you to this story in 24 half-hour lectures that lead you through the essential ideas of astrophysics - the science of stars. Your guide is Professor Stassun, an award-winning teacher and noted astrophysicist. He provides lively, eloquent, and authoritative explanations at a level suitable for science novices as well as for those who already know their way around the starry sky.
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The Life and Death of Stars
- Narrated by: Keivan G. Stassun
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-05
- Language: English
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The Hidden Reality
- Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
- Written by: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many. With crystal-clear prose and inspired use of analogy, Brian Greene shows how a range of different “multiverse” proposals emerges from theories developed to explain the most refined observations of both subatomic particles and the dark depths of space.
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The Hidden Reality
- Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2011-01-25
- Language: English
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The Source Field Investigations
- The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations behind the 2012 Prophecies
- Written by: David Wilcock
- Narrated by: David Wilcock
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
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A stunning synthesis of hidden science and lost prophecies, The Source Field Investigations exposes many great secrets: DNA transformation, consciousness science, wormholes, stargate travel, sacred geometry, ancient conspiracies, multidimensional time, the Maya calendar, and a stunning new model of galactic energy fields triggering mental, biological, and spiritual evolution.More than two million people have seen David Wilcock’s incredible tour of the 2012 prophecies in his Internet documentary, The 2012 Enigma.
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The Source Field Investigations
- The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations behind the 2012 Prophecies
- Narrated by: David Wilcock
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2011-08-18
- Language: English
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The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know
- Written by: The Great Courses, Joshua N. Winn
- Narrated by: Professor Joshua N. Winn
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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As recently as 1990, it seemed plausible that the solar system was a unique phenomenon in our galaxy. Thanks to advances in technology and clever new uses of existing data, now we know that planetary systems and possibly even a new Earth can be found throughout galaxies near and far.
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The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know
- Narrated by: Professor Joshua N. Winn
- Series: The Great Courses: Astronomy
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2015-09-25
- Language: English
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The Case for Mars
- The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
- Written by: Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner, Arthur C. Clarke - Foreword
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream - the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit. Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. Leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin has crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct, presented here with engaging anecdotes. The Case for Mars is not a vision for the far future or one that will cost us impossible billions.
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Interesting, but quite dated and racist
- By R. G. Porter on 2018-09-08
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The Case for Mars
- The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2018-02-13
- Language: English
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A Briefer History of Time
- Written by: Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Stephen Hawking’s worldwide best seller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark volume in scientific writing. But for those who have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key concepts - the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe - A Briefer History of Time is Professor Hawking’s response.
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A Briefer History of Time
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-21
- Language: English
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The Fabric of Reality
- The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications
- Written by: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
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Author of the New York Times best seller The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, explores the four most fundamental strands of human knowledge: quantum physics, and the theories of knowledge, computation, and evolution - and their unexpected connections. Taken together, these four strands reveal a deeply integrated, rational, and optimistic worldview. It describes a unified fabric of reality that is objective and comprehensible, in which human action and thought are central.
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Great introduction! The topics are extensively dea
- By Dennis A Robinson on 2019-03-20
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The Fabric of Reality
- The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-10
- Language: English
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The Space Race
- An Audible Original
- Written by: Colin Brake, Patrick Chapman, Richard Hollingham, and others
- Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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A century ago very few people dreamed of space travel. Today it is the most daring and technologically sophisticated quest ever undertaken, being driven not just by government agencies such as NASA and ESA, but also by visionaries such as Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic), Elon Musk (SpaceX) and Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin). To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, this major drama-documentary series charts the definitive story of the past, present and future of humankind’s exploration of space. The Space Race is narrated by Kate Mulgrew and features a full cast.
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The Space Race
- An Audible Original
- Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2019-07-12
- Language: English
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Figuring
- Written by: Maria Popova
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement.
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Figuring
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-05
- Language: English
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The Origin and Evolution of Earth
- From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence
- Written by: Robert M. Hazen, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert M. Hazen
- Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins
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This course chronicles the history of Earth and life on Earth from the point of view of the minerals that made it all happen. A major theme is how minerals and life coevolved, leading to the unprecedented mineral diversity on our world compared to the other planets in the solar system. Professor Hazen tells this epic story in 48 action-packed lectures that take you from the big bang to the formation of the solar system to the major milestones that marked the evolution of Earth and life.
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very engaging
- By Richard Owen on 2019-04-16
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The Origin and Evolution of Earth
- From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence
- Narrated by: Robert M. Hazen
- Series: The Great Courses: History of Science
- Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2013-11-12
- Language: English
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Life in Our Universe
- Written by: Laird Close, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: The Great Courses
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Are we alone in the universe? This is one of the most profound issues facing mankind - and one of the unresolved questions that science may finally be able to answer in this century. These 24 mind-expanding lectures reveal the cutting-edge research leading scientists to believe that life is not exclusively the domain of Earth. Professor Close offers an unparalleled look at the subject of life and the mysteries that remain.
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Easy listening with lots of good information.
- By David on 2019-07-12
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Life in Our Universe
- Narrated by: The Great Courses
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-03
- Language: English
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Strange Angel
- The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- Written by: George Pendle
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene.
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Strange Angel
- The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-14
- Language: English
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Summary: A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Written by: Ryan Dawson
- Narrated by: Joey Eugene
- Length: 35 mins
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In this summary of A Short History of Nearly Everything: Bryson describes graphically and in layperson's terms the size of the universe and that of atoms and subatomic particles. He then explores the history of geology and biology and traces life from its first appearance to today's modern humans, placing emphasis on the development of the modern Homo sapiens. Furthermore, he discusses the possibility of the Earth being struck by a meteorite and reflects on human capabilities of spotting a meteor before it impacts the Earth....
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Summary: A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Narrated by: Joey Eugene
- Length: 35 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-22
- Language: English
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