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Fact or Fiction 2
- 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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The editors of Scientific American’s best-selling Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths return with Fact or Fiction 2: 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained. We cast an analytical eye on another collection of urban lore and cultural myths that persist so long in our collective consciousness they acquire a ring of truth. Who hasn’t heard the “five-second rule”, which insists that food dropped on the floor is safe to eat if it’s picked up within five seconds? How many of us have been told to “feed a cold, starve a fever"?
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Fact or Fiction 2
- 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-28
- Language: English
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Unlocking Happiness
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Take control and retrain your brain to achieve a happier, healthier state of mind. In this audiobook, we examine aspects of daily life that affect mood such as perception, social support, and time management and offer approaches shown to boost contentment, including reframing negative events, increasing resilience through self-compassion, and practicing mindfulness.
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WRONG ABOUT HIGH FAT DIET.
- By Jeff Turner on 2023-10-18
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Unlocking Happiness
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2020-12-22
- Language: English
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HIV and AIDS
- A Global Health Pandemic
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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On June 5, 1981, the scientific community received a wake-up call from the CDC in the form of a terrible new illness that the world would soon know as AIDS. Three decades later, remarkable progress has been made, but much more remains to be understood and to be done. In this audiobook, we explore where the disease came from, how it works, how it spreads, the search for a vaccine, and cultural and sociological factors.
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HIV and AIDS
- A Global Health Pandemic
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2020-06-02
- Language: English
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The Science of Creativity
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Creativity was long thought to be a gift from the muses, a special quality of a select minority of people. Fortunately, more recent studies have debunked this belief and have shown promise for techniques to help us all boost our creative potential. Nature gives some people a genetic edge, but nurture has a large role in developing creative genius. In this audiobook, we look at this difficult-to-define quality from all angles: where creativity comes from, lessons we can learn from creative geniuses, and how to cultivate creativity.
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Shockingly unremarkable and shallow.
- By Sharalee Regehr on 2023-02-20
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The Science of Creativity
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2020-12-15
- Language: English
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Ask the Experts: Astronomy
- The Ask the Experts Series, Book 2
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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The second title in our series - Astronomy - looks skyward and explains a variety of universal phenomena and theories. Are you curious about how planets acquire rings or what creates those gorgeous spiral arms around galaxies? Or maybe you want to know why the Big Bang didn’t collapse into a black hole. Astrophysicists, professors, and scientists tackle questions about stars, planets, asteroids, galaxies, and nebulae, the expanding universe as well as the oddities - black holes, wormholes, and dark matter.
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Ask the Experts: Astronomy
- The Ask the Experts Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Series: Ask the Experts
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2020-11-24
- Language: English
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Ask the Brains, Part 1
- Experts Reveal 55 Mysteries of the Mind
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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People behave in strange ways. We sometimes giggle when someone falls down, swear we've been to places we haven't, or continue believing in something despite scientific evidence to the contrary. For more than a decade, Scientific American MIND's long-running feature "Ask the Brains" has addressed questions from their readers on the quirks and quandaries of human behavior, psychology, and neurology. Here, in Ask the Brains, Part 1, they’ve compiled some of the best and most interesting inquiries about the human brain.
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Ask the Brains, Part 1
- Experts Reveal 55 Mysteries of the Mind
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-25
- Language: English
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Cyber Hacking
- Wars in Virtual Space
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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In Cyber Hacking: Wars in Virtual Space, we peer behind the cyber curtain. First, we look at the hackers - who they are, how they work, their motivations, and methods. The opening article examines hardware - specifically microprocessors and why they are vulnerable to tampering. Then we turn to the internal attacks, the worms and viruses whose resulting damage ranges from merely inconvenient and attention-getting to expensive and dangerous. Next, we take a broad look at issues of privacy and the technology used to gather and track personal information.
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Cyber Hacking
- Wars in Virtual Space
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-14
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Brain
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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The sense of position and movement is often called the sixth sense; the brain’s connection to the immune system might be a seventh. In this audiobook, we examine the diverse functions of the brain beyond the five senses, including the glymphatic system for maintaining brain health, the processes behind intuition, and new research raising questions about “brain death.”
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Secrets of the Brain
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2020-12-29
- Language: English
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Martin Gardner
- The Magic and Mystery of Numbers
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs
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How many people achieve a cult following because of their writing in mathematics? Only a handful, and Martin Gardner is among the most well-known and well-loved. Not only did he present a notoriously difficult subject in an engaging and accessible way, but in doing so, he attracted an incredibly broad readership. His “Mathematical Games” column in Scientific American ran nearly every month for 26 years and was one of the most popular in the magazine’s history.
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Poorly chosen material, inaccessible, poor PDF
- By SD on 2022-03-22
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Martin Gardner
- The Magic and Mystery of Numbers
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 2020-12-22
- Language: English
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Fact or Fiction
- Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair? These questions are a sample of the urban lore investigated in this audiobook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths. Drawing from Scientific American’s “Fact or Fiction” and “Strange But True” columns, we’ve selected 58 of the most surprising, fascinating, useful, and just plain wacky topics confronted by our writers over the years.
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Fact or Fiction
- Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-04
- Language: English
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New Frontiers in Alzheimer’s
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson, Kate Mulligan, Erica Sullivan, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Until recently, one idea has dominated research in treating Alzheimer’s disease: the amyloid hypothesis. Those therapies have repeatedly fallen short, and in this audiobook we take a look at where that hypothesis stands today. We examine recent research into the spectrum of disease causes, including inflammation and immune dysfunction; cutting-edge treatments, including deep-brain stimulation and magnetic resonance - guided focused ultrasound; as well as lifestyle interventions that can help protect from disease.
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New Frontiers in Alzheimer’s
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson, Kate Mulligan, Erica Sullivan, Traber Burns
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-03
- Language: English
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The Science of Memory
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Why can you vividly recall the day your father took you to your first baseball game many years ago, but you can’t remember where you just put the car keys? The process of how - and what - we remember is a fascinating window into who we are and what makes us tick. In this audiobook, we explore what science can and can’t tell us about memory.
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The Science of Memory
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2021-02-23
- Language: English
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Allergies, Asthma, and the Common Cold
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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During allergy season, sufferers know the drill: runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing up a storm. For the unlucky with asthma, symptoms might also include coughing and wheezing. However, asthma is not always caused by allergens like pollen and dust - nonallergenic asthma is brought on by a number of possible environmental or genetic triggers. Then there’s the common cold, which also presents with similar symptoms. So what’s causing your runny nose?
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Allergies, Asthma, and the Common Cold
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-25
- Language: English
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AI and Genius Machines
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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In science fiction, artificial intelligence takes the shape of computers that can speak like people, think for themselves, and sometimes act against us. Reality of course is vastly different, though in many ways computers surpass their fictional counterparts. This book reviews work in the field and covers topics from chess-playing to quantum computing. The writers tackle how to make computers more powerful, how we define consciousness, what the hard problems are, and even how computers might be built once the limits of silicon chips have been reached.
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Encompassing book for those who love computers
- By Shane on 2021-02-28
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AI and Genius Machines
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-21
- Language: English
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Understanding Autism
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Autism is one of three diagnoses that the DSM-5 includes in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). While our understanding of this condition has grown exponentially, research has been fraught with controversy. Autism appears to be on the rise, depending on how you define it, and its causes more complex than imagined.
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Understanding Autism
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2020-11-24
- Language: English
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The Future of Energy
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Since the Industrial Revolution, our civilization has depended on fossil fuels for energy - first it was coal; then petroleum. If business as usual continues, we are looking at a world where sea levels will be high enough to submerge many coastal cities and extreme weather events like 2012’s Hurricane Sandy are the new normal. In this audiobook, The Future of Energy: Earth, Wind, and Fire, we review the energy problem and analyze the options from the mundane to the far out.
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The Future of Energy
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-18
- Language: English
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Ultimate Physics
- From Quarks to the Cosmos
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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The fundamental outlines of the physical world, from its tiniest particles to massive galaxy clusters, have been apparent for decades. Does this mean physicists are about to tie it all up into a neat package? Not at all. Just when you think you’re figuring it out, the universe begins to look its strangest, and this book illustrates how answers often lead to more questions and open up new paths to insight.
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Ultimate Physics
- From Quarks to the Cosmos
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-17
- Language: English
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Return to Reason
- The Science of Thought
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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Why do facts fail to change people’s minds? In this audiobook, we examine how we form our beliefs and maintain them with a host of cognitive biases, the difference between intelligence and thinking rationally, and some solutions for how to overcome these obstacles both in reasoning with others and in dealing with our own prejudices.
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Return to Reason
- The Science of Thought
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2020-11-10
- Language: English
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Mysteries of the Mind
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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For more than a century, scientists across disciplines have investigated the workings of nature’s most complex organ. Findings from cutting-edge neuroscience are moving us closer to understanding processes like how we make decisions or navigate our environment. In this audiobook, we examine the latest research on cognition, how the brain gives rise to consciousness, and how we can improve mental health.
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Mysteries of the Mind
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2020-11-17
- Language: English
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The Science of Pets
- Written by: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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In the US, more than half of households have a pet - usually more than one. They’re usually considered members of the family, and some of us even call them our “furry children”. The strength of the human-pet bond tells us as much or more about ourselves as it does about our pets, and in this audiobook, we look at why dogs and cats behave the way they do and what makes our bond with them so strong.
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The Science of Pets
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2021-02-16
- Language: English
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