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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 82 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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    • 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 6,222 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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    • The Surrender of Culture to Technology
    • By: Neil Postman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 698 ratings
    • In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it....

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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 758 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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    • 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 422 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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    • My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
    • By: Leonard Susskind
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098 ratings
    • What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did....

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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 1,514 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 Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 646 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • A Story of Ideas in America
    • By: Louis Menand
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court....

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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 68 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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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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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 163 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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    • 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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    • The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
    • By: Seb Falk
    • Narrated by: Seb Falk
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk....

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    • Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron
    • By: Benjamin Ehrlich
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Santiago Ramon y Cajal is likely the most important figure in the history of biology you've never heard of. His discoveries have done for our understanding of the human brain what the work of Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton did for our conception of the physical universe....

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    • A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
    • By: Jennet Conant
    • Narrated by: John Kroft
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • This is the untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history....

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    • Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • One of our most prominent medical historians presents an authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure....

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    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • By: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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    • Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
    • By: Kim TallBear
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives....

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