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  • Einstein Audiobook By Walter Isaacson cover art

    • Einstein

    • His Life and Universe
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,391 ratings
    • Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....

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  • The Disappearing Spoon Audiobook By Sam Kean cover art

    • The Disappearing Spoon

    • And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,056 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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  • Patient Zero Audiobook By Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen cover art

    • Patient Zero

    • A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
    • By: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings

    • From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....

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  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Audiobook By Rebecca Skloot cover art

    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,696 ratings

    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb Audiobook By Richard Rhodes cover art

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  • Stiff Audiobook By Mary Roach cover art

    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,339 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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  • The Butchering Art Audiobook By Lindsey Fitzharris cover art

    • The Butchering Art

    • Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,369 ratings
    • In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....

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  • What's Gotten into You Audiobook By Dan Levitt cover art

    • What's Gotten into You

    • The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
    • By: Dan Levitt
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings

    • Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth’s deserts. If you weigh 150 pounds, you’ve got enough carbon to make 25 pounds of charcoal....

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  • The Icepick Surgeon Audiobook By Sam Kean cover art

    • The Icepick Surgeon

    • Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,112 ratings

    • Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost....

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  • A Brief History of Earth Audiobook By Andrew H. Knoll cover art

    • A Brief History of Earth

    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings

    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Audiobook By Thomas S. Kuhn cover art

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  • A Taste for Poison Audiobook By Neil Bradbury Ph.D. cover art

    • A Taste for Poison

    • Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
    • By: Neil Bradbury Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings

    • Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals, and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect....

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  • Liftoff Audiobook By Eric Berger cover art

    • Liftoff

    • Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX
    • By: Eric Berger
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,268 ratings

    • The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX - and Elon Musk - from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company....

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  • Ten Drugs Audiobook By Thomas Hager cover art

    • Ten Drugs

    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,890 ratings

    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

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  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out Audiobook By Richard P. Feynman cover art

    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

    • The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
    • By: Richard P. Feynman
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,819 ratings
    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....

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  • The Great Influenza Audiobook By John M. Barry cover art

    • The Great Influenza

    • The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
    • By: John M. Barry
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,854 ratings

    • In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide....

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  • Atomic Accidents Audiobook By James Mahaffey cover art

    • Atomic Accidents

    • A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,088 ratings
    • Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....

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  • Tripping on Utopia Audiobook By Benjamin Breen cover art

    • Tripping on Utopia

    • Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
    • By: Benjamin Breen
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

    • A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley....

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  • 1493 Audiobook By Charles C. Mann cover art

    • 1493

    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,118 ratings

    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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  • The Invisible Rainbow Audiobook By Arthur Firstenberg cover art

    • The Invisible Rainbow

    • A History of Electricity and Life
    • By: Arthur Firstenberg
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings

    • Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....

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