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Lucky 13
- Survival in Space
- Written by: Richard Hilliard
- Narrated by: Jodi Dick
- Length: 16 mins
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On April 11, 1970, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert were launched into space as the crew of Apollo 13. Their mission, like the missions of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, was to explore the lunar surface. But that mission was never completed. As they began the procedure for landing on the Moon, the spacecraft was rocked by a violent explosion. Oxygen began pouring out of the Service Module, and the spacecraft began to lose power. Jim Lovell radioed Mission Control with the now-famous words, "Houston, we have a problem."
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Blues
- Written by: John Hersey
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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“Bluefish,” writes the author, are “animated chopping machines. They will eat anything alive. They have stripped the toes from surfers in Florida. They can’t not eat.” Hersey weaves fact and legend around his subject, engaging the reader with juicy details of ocean life, philosophy, natural history, and the crises into which man has let his environment slide.
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Blues
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2011-05-20
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar: Hearing, Tasting, Touching
- Understanding the World Through Our Senses
- Written by: Rolf Nelson Professor
- Narrated by: Rolf Nelson Professor
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Many are familiar with the commonly known senses - sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. But most do know realize that humans have other senses beyond these. This is not, however, a spooky "sixth sense" of extrasensory perception. But humans do have a different kind of sixth sense. We also have a seventh sense, and it can be debated that we have even more. These additional senses are in fact specialized systems to detect other aspects of the world that we rarely consider, though they are an important part of our everyday life.
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The Modern Scholar: Hearing, Tasting, Touching
- Understanding the World Through Our Senses
- Narrated by: Rolf Nelson Professor
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-22
- Language: English
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Broadsides from the Other Orders
- A Book of Bugs
- Written by: Sue Hubbell
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Most of us think of bugs as pesky creatures we squish under our shoes or bat away with our hands. Under the microscope of Sue Hubbell’s keen eye emerges an exciting world we rarely take the time to see. Author of A Country Year, Hubbell writes regularly for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Discover magazines, bringing to her delightful essays the practical veracity of a gentlewoman farmer, and the style and élan of an eccentric who has found her bliss.
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Broadsides from the Other Orders
- A Book of Bugs
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-28
- Language: English
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La mente en la materia [Mind and Material (Texto Completo)]
- Written by: Anthony Wolf
- Narrated by: Francisco Rivela
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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Los antiguos alquimistas intentaron encontrar el sentido del Universo buscando descubrir la conexion entre la mente y la materia. Algunos cientificos contemporaneos, en particular en el campo de la fisica cuantica, siguen elmismo camino. En esta reciente contribucion al estudio de la conciencia, el fisico Fred Alan Wolf revela lo que el denomina la "nueva alquimia", una simbiosis de las ideas de los antiguos alquimistas y de los nuevos cientificos.
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La mente en la materia [Mind and Material (Texto Completo)]
- Narrated by: Francisco Rivela
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2008-12-23
- Language: Spanish
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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
- Written by: Lewis Thomas
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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This collection of 24 essays is a perfect introduction to the world of Lewis Thomas. Topics ranging from the riddle of smelling to nuclear proliferation carry the gentle, unassuming persuasiveness that characterizes the author’s work. Here we are also introduced to the concerns that have distinguished Thomas’ literary career: the natural altruism of organisms; the inter-relatedness of all creatures; the fragility of the human species; the uneasiness of life on a threatened planet.
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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2011-11-28
- Language: English
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Handprints on Hubble
- An Astronaut's Story of Invention
- Written by: Kathryn Sullivan
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In Handprints on Hubble, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan describes her work on the NASA team that made all of this possible. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built.
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Handprints on Hubble
- An Astronaut's Story of Invention
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-06
- Language: English
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Eclipse & Revelation
- Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts
- Written by: Henrike C. Lange, Tom McLeish
- Narrated by: Christopher Hallett
- 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 & Revelation
- Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts
- Narrated by: Christopher Hallett
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-17
- 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: 2024-06-18
- Language: English
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Empires of the Dead
- Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
- Written by: Christopher Heaney
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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When the Smithsonian’s Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world’s human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a preHispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how “ancient Peruvians” became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond.
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Empires of the Dead
- Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-24
- Language: English
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The Modern Bestiary
- A Curated Collection of Wondrous Wildlife
- Written by: Joanna Bagniewska
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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From the familiar to the improbable, the gross to the endearing, The Modern Bestiary is a compendium of curious creatures. It includes both animals that have made headlines and those you’ve probably never heard of, such as skin-eating caecilians, harp sponges, or zombie worms—also known as bone-eating snot flowers.
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The Modern Bestiary
- A Curated Collection of Wondrous Wildlife
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2022-09-27
- Language: English
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Distrust
- Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science
- Written by: Gary Smith
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically, science’s credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themselves. Scientific disinformation and damaging conspiracy theories are rife because of the Internet that science created, the scientific demand for empirical evidence and statistical significance leads to data torturing and confirmation bias, and data mining is fuelled by the technological advances in Big Data and the development of ever-increasingly powerful computers.
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Distrust
- Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-23
- Language: English
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Kraken
- The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
- Written by: Wendy Williams
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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The ocean is the last remaining source of profound mystery and discovery on Earth. With eighty percent of it still largely unexplored, it is endlessly fascinating. In Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid, journalist Wendy Williams introduces one of the ocean’s most charismatic, monstrous, and enigmatic inhabitants: the squid. More than just calamari, squid species are fascinatingly odd creatures, with much to teach us about our own species.
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Kraken
- The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-05
- Language: English
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