Frederic Simon
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What's Our Problem?
- A Self-Help Book for Societies
- By: Tim Urban
- Narrated by: Tim Urban
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 501
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 437
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 434
From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait but Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good for a while but then goes hard off the rails
- By g27c on 04-20-23
- What's Our Problem?
- A Self-Help Book for Societies
- By: Tim Urban
- Narrated by: Tim Urban
Rare moment, when a book changes your approach
Reviewed: 03-06-23
I needed this book, thanks a lot for thinking, researching, and clearly expressing what felt wrong for many years now.
The Golem is the perfect image!
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Paradise
- Expeditionary Force, Book 3
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 47,717
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 43,819
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43,642
While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure that hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been stranded on the planet they nicknamed "Paradise". The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission, and the UN wants the ship to find out the status of the humans on Paradise. But Colonel Joe Bishop warns that they might not like what they find, and they can't do anything about it without endangering Earth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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running out of ideas...
- By AP on 06-08-17
- Paradise
- Expeditionary Force, Book 3
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
could not stop listening! Just love Skippy
Reviewed: 06-23-18
After Martin the depressed AI, Skippy the biggest A-hole of the universe is a keeper.
I just love this guy, and cannot stop getting more of him.
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Ready Player One
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 260,273
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 240,813
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 240,327
In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I’m sorry I waited so long to read this book.
- By Julie W. Capell on 05-27-14
- Ready Player One
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton is amazing!
Reviewed: 05-26-18
Biggest nerd story of a computer geek ever made, read by an amazing actor!
Could not stop listening.
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How Not to Be Wrong
- The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- By: Jordan Ellenberg
- Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,038
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,696
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,688
Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia's views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can't figure out about you, and the existence of God.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book but better in writing
- By Michael on 07-02-14
- How Not to Be Wrong
- The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- By: Jordan Ellenberg
- Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
Extremely easy to listen to, and feeling smarter!
Reviewed: 03-22-16
Amazing book, that gave me deep and great data while having a good time.
I always love to feel smarter after enjoying a book that so ready to listen to.
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Heretic
- By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,012
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 900
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 892
What happened to Islamic reform? Why have al Qaeda and Boko Haram become the faces of contemporary Islam? Why has the Arab Spring devolved into a battle over sharia law? Continuing her personal journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard and American citizenship, the New York Times best-selling author of Infidel and Nomad crafts a powerful call for an Islamic reformation as the only way to end the current wave of global violence and repression of women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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And They Revoked Her Honorary University Degree!
- By Russell on 04-14-15
- Heretic
- By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A call to rationally confront what is wrong!
Reviewed: 04-06-15
Fighting the disease while loving the patient, is a very difficult mission when it comes to religion.
Now the 5 actions to take describe here, makes it clear the bad ideas of Islam (which is not "just" a religion) needs to be fought, without blaming the victims.
Amazing read, thank you so much for this!
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Our Mathematical Universe
- My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- By: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,513
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,188
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy, and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- By Michael on 02-02-14
- Our Mathematical Universe
- My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- By: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
A boatload of amazing ideas!
Reviewed: 03-21-15
The book started slow for me, and got me worried I will not learn anything. Another great scientist dumbing down what I already know.
But, then he described his experience with Feynman books and lectures. He is passionate and love Physics, and he is the craziest that I ever read.
No idea are dismissed out of hand, and I needed to remind myself that he is an actual great scientist when he started to exposed some of his crazy ideas.
And finally I realized, that everything he says is well thought, deep research and discussions corroborate his ideas.
And he always dare analyzing the opposite view than the one from mainstream science. To my amazement, he got some convincing arguments!
In any case, a must read!
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,566
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,991
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,969
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Financial Times' Critique Doesn't Detract
- By Madeleine on 05-22-14
A gold mine of economic ideas
Reviewed: 01-18-15
It's for sure a hard read, but totally worth it!
I need to digest some of the points made, but Piketti is a very convincing fellow.
In any case the quality of the data and the intelligence of the analysis raises the discussion on state, taxes and the goal of economist to a new level.
Loved it.
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Just Listen
- Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
- By: Mark Goulston
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,781
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,311
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,298
You’ve got a business colleague who’s hostile...a client who’s furious...a staffer who’s deeply cynical—how do you get people to do what you want in tough situations like these? In Just Listen, veteran psychiatrist and business coach Mark Goulston reveals the secret to how to get through to anyone, even when productive communication seems impossible.“Here's the challenge,” Mark says.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not for everyone
- By Joseph on 02-13-12
- Just Listen
- Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
- By: Mark Goulston
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Well done and answered what I was looking for
Reviewed: 01-27-12
I had some issue communicating my views, and looking for help, I found this book.
It perfectly deliver what I needed and I understood my problem: Trying to make myself understood instead of practicing my own "mirror neurons".
In one word: I found out I was a good selfish guy :)
Putting myself into the others shoes using the book tricks really helped, Thanks a lot Mark.
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What's Next
- Dispatches on the Future of Science
- By: Max Brockman
- Narrated by: Erik Davies, Kirsten Potter
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story3 out of 5 stars 16
Will climate change force a massive human migration to the Northern Rim? How does our sense of morality arise from the structure of the brain? What does the latest research in language acquisition tells us about the role of culture in the way we think? What does current neurological research tell us about the nature of time? This wide-ranging collection of never-before-published essays offers the very latest insights into the daunting scientific questions of our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the Time
- By Roy on 07-15-09
- What's Next
- Dispatches on the Future of Science
- By: Max Brockman
- Narrated by: Erik Davies, Kirsten Potter
Truly inspiring!
Reviewed: 03-01-10
I just loved this book!
First, it's more about neuroscience than all of Science, but this field is discovering so many amazing things, that was the best choice.
Knowing, not just guessing, how you're brain works and can trick you is mind boggling (pun intended).
I truly learned something deep in here...
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