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Feed
- By: M. T. Anderson
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 933
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Story4 out of 5 stars 929
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved it, plain and simple
- By Tom on 07-11-10
- Feed
- By: M. T. Anderson
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Best novel I’ve read in many years
Reviewed: 04-19-22
Laugh out loud funny, heartbreaking, tearjerking, incisive, insightful, horrifying, and a massive wake up call about a present moment in time. Read
this book. Now.
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. He argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting ideas but lots of negativity
- By Dan B on 05-22-23
- The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
Profound work hard to overstate in importance
Reviewed: 03-17-22
A must read for anyone interested in the arc of humanity and our planet. Full of insights and independent thinking and written in a way that can unexpectedly cause you to change your mind about even the biggest of issues. Should be required reading in college history courses.
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The Spike
- An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
- By: Mark Humphries
- Narrated by: Anand Jagatia
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia tells the extraordinary story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this a year ago, very handy info
- By Philip Savva on 08-10-21
- The Spike
- An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
- By: Mark Humphries
- Narrated by: Anand Jagatia
Great overview of what we know about the spike code
Reviewed: 08-28-21
The punchline at the end however is surprising: we know almost nothing about the spike code and human consciousness. A strange omission in the book was not even a mention of EEG and measuring the brains local and global electrical fields that are related to but different than the spike code. He mentions fMRI which measure blood flows through the brain. But nothing about EEG or the likelihood that the brain’s large scale electric fields play a role in function and consciousness.
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Utopia for Realists
- How We Can Build the Ideal World
- By: Rutger Bregman
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,757
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,520
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,509
Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty to Richard Nixon's near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history and beyond the traditional left-right divides as he champions ideas whose time has come.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't address the real question
- By Jen on 07-06-19
- Utopia for Realists
- How We Can Build the Ideal World
- By: Rutger Bregman
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
Inspiring and yes realistic overview of achievable utopias
Reviewed: 07-13-21
Great overview and written in an entertaining manner by a committed utopian. Ends on an inspiring note: turn off the tv, get outside and organize!
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The Tangled Tree
- A Radical New History of Life
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,196
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,048
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,048
In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across species lines. For instance, we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived not through traditional inheritance from directly ancestral forms, but sideways by viral infection - a type of HGT. In The Tangled Tree David Quammen chronicles these discoveries through the lives of the researchers who made them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Enjoyable and Readable
- By Dennis on 08-18-18
- The Tangled Tree
- A Radical New History of Life
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Excellent survey of modern evolutionary though
Reviewed: 12-21-19
Very well done. My first Quammen book and it did not disappoint. A tangled bush indeed.
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The Science of Liberty
- Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
- By: Timothy Ferris
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
In his most important book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris — “the best popular science writer in the English language today” (Christian Science Monitor) — makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Liberty: The Final Solution
- By Nelson Alexander on 02-19-11
- The Science of Liberty
- Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
- By: Timothy Ferris
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
Excellent case made that science and democracy have gone hand in hand
Reviewed: 12-02-19
One can debate many specific points made by Ferris but overall his case is pretty tight and should give hope that over time the combination of science and liberalism can result in new knowledge as well as better governance. Highly recommended.
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Green Mars
- By: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 27 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,422
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,944
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,952
The initial Martian pioneers had fierce disagreements about how the planet should be used by humans. This led to a war that threatened the lives of billions of people on both Mars and Earth. Now, the second generation of settlers continues the struggle to survive the hostile yet strangely beautiful environment of the red planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Green Mars: a textbook scifi novel
- By Erick on 08-05-13
- Green Mars
- By: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Stunning achievement
Reviewed: 11-17-17
Really sets the bar for excellence in sci fi. Kim truly created a whole new world in his mind and made it real for us readers. Now that we’re looking realistically at Martian colonization approximately in the timeframe that Kim projected it’s even better and more relevant than when I first read these books twenty years ago.
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Replay
- By: Ken Grimwood
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,516
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,611
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,637
In 1988, 43-year-old Jeff Winston died of a heart attack. But then he awoke, and it was 1963; Jeff was 18 all over again, his memory of the next two decades intact. This time around, Jeff would gain all the power and wealth he never had before. This time around he'd know how to do it right. Until next time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Book for the past 10 years
- By psnorb on 12-29-08
- Replay
- By: Ken Grimwood
- Narrated by: William Dufris
One of my favorite books
Reviewed: 09-15-17
Heart breaking, poignant, will make you think. I read this in my early twenties and listened to it in my mid 40s. Equally impactful. Everyone should read or listen to this powerful book.
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- The Evolution of Minds
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 875
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 752
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Story4 out of 5 stars 745
What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The only other review was so bad that I wrote this
- By Adam on 02-13-17
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- The Evolution of Minds
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
A perfect combination of science, philosophy and speculation
Reviewed: 09-12-17
I'm a philosopher with a biology background so this book was right up my alley. The author's argument that life has made only two serious efforts at creating complex brains is well supported. But my view is that mind exists throughout the animal kingdom even down to single called creatures on other kingdoms. This book is a lovely adventure and a great listen. Looking forward to more like it.
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The Evolution of Beauty
- How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us
- By: Richard O. Prum
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 222
In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature? Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum - reviving Darwin's own views - thinks not.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Ornithology then a PC Polemic
- By Fred on 10-08-18
- The Evolution of Beauty
- How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us
- By: Richard O. Prum
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
Excellent extension of sexual selection theory
Reviewed: 06-13-17
This is an important book that seeks modestly to radically revise the conventional approach to evolutionary theory, by replacing the assumption that most evolutionary change comes from natural selection. Prum argues instead that our null hypothesis--the starting point for making evolutionary hypotheses--should be the notion that "beauty happens," which means that basic evolutionary changes are random variations of ornaments and sexual organs (in sexually reproducing creatures) that are in many cases developed further due to aesthetic preferences by the opposite sex or due to adaptive advantage occurring serendipitously in some cases. So Prum seeks to turn sexual selection into the focus of evolutionary explanations rather than the red headed stepchild of evolutionary theory that it currently is. I strongly agree with this thesis and urge people to give these ideas a shot.
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