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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
    • By: Richard Holmes
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 351 ratings
    • The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science....

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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 831 ratings
    • Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

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    • The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
    • By: Vitalik Buterin, Nathan Schneider - introduction
    • Narrated by: Derek Shoales
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • After Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin dropped out of college and launched Bitcoin Magazine, he wrote the Ethereum white paper, which proposed an open source protocol that would take what Bitcoin did for money and do it for everything else....

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    • The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
    • By: Andrew Maynard
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science-fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and make you think about the relationship between technology and society....

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    • 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 6,053 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 722 ratings
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

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    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Elting E. Morison
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This book offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society....

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    • How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
    • By: Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - separated in age by 40 years - discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field....

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    • How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
    • By: Bill Nye
    • Narrated by: Bill Nye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,499 ratings
    • Everything All at Once is an exciting, inspiring call to unleash the power of the nerd mindset that exists within us all....

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    • The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
    • By: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512 ratings
    • People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education....

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Jamie East
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances and their electrifying implications for us all....

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    • Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
    • By: Lee McIntyre
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • In this book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it's important to do so. Science denial can kill....

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    • Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
    • By: David Kaiser
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • The surprising story of eccentric young scientists who stood up to convention—and changed the face of modern physics.....

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    • Inventor of the Modern
    • By: Richard Munson
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla, a Serbian immigrant, invented the radio, the induction motor, the neon lamp, and the remote control. Tesla's personal life was magnificently bizarre. This clear, authoritative, and highly enjoyable biography takes account of all phases of this remarkable life....

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    • Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
    • By: David Quammen
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • In September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that "natural selection" among competing individuals would lead to wondrous adaptations and species diversity....

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    • Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....

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    • Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age
    • By: Felicia Wu Song
    • Narrated by: Eunice Wong
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Sociologist Felicia Wu Song unpacks the soft tyranny of the digital age, including the values embedded in our apps and the economic systems that drive our habits and their subtle yet pervasive effects....

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