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    • Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
    • By: Patchen Barss
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Beville
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • Both erudite and poetic, The Impossible Man draws on years of research and interviews, as well as previously unopened archives to present a moving portrait of Penrose the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Roger the human being.

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dylan Baker
    • Length: 25 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34,500 ratings
    • From the author of the best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs....

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,633 ratings
    • When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh.

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Alfred Molina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,831 ratings
    • Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....

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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 6,057 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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    • 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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    • Risking It All
    • By: Michael Vlismas
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Journalist and author Michael Vlismas, who attended the same high school as Elon Musk, knows well the environment that shaped him and offers new insights into Musk's development, including his troubled relationship with his father....

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,154 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
    • By: Manjit Kumar
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,794 ratings
    • Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it....

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    • An Autobiography
    • By: Bob Lazar, George Knapp - foreword
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,721 ratings
    • Bob Lazar was a brilliant young physicist that found himself employed at a top-secret facility in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas. Under the watchful eye of the government elite, he is tasked with understanding an exotic propulsion system he is told came from outer space....

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    • The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
    • By: Mike Mullane
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world - 29 men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the program....

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    • By: Edward O. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Edward O. Wilson - winner of two Pulitzer prizes, champion of biodiversity, and Faculty Emeritus at Harvard University - is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century....

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    • The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
    • By: Nikola Tesla
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 653 ratings
    • This autobiography is a fascinating glimpse into the interior life of a man who may have contributed more to the fields of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead....

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    • A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
    • By: Robert Kanigel
    • Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
    • Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 339 ratings
    • In 1913, an unschooled young Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging that preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Hardy, realizing the letter was the work of a genius, arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England....

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    • Alexander von Humboldt's New World
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,541 ratings
    • Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....

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    • How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
    • By: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 522 ratings
    • Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible....

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    • How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
    • By: Dava Sobel
    • Narrated by: Pat Rodrigues
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science.

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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 397 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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