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The Science of Weird Shit
- Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal
- By: Chris French, Richard Wiseman - foreword
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Using academic, comprehensive, logical, and, at times, mathematical approaches, The Science of Weird Shit convincingly debunks ESP, communicating with the dead, and alien abduction claims, among other phenomena. All the while, however, French maintains that our belief in such phenomena is neither ridiculous nor trivial; if anything, such claims can tell us a great deal about the human mind if we pay them the attention they are due.
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Very arrogantly written. Treats people as idiots
- By Darren Morgan-Green on 31-07-24
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The Science of Weird Shit
- Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: English
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Nostalgia
- A History of a Dangerous Emotion
- By: Agnes Arnold-Forster
- Narrated by: Agnes Arnold-Forster
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Read by the author, Agnes Arnold-Forster. ‘Arnold-Forster belongs to that valuable non-jargon-spouting breed of academic who is capable of explaining complex ideas in simple language.’ – The Times In Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion, Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and...
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Exactly what I needed!
- By Anonymous on 25-11-25
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Nostalgia
- A History of a Dangerous Emotion
- Narrated by: Agnes Arnold-Forster
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, 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. Written in the...
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The perfect mix of storytelling and science
- By honesty on 10-08-22
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Patient Zero
- A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-07-22
- Language: English
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Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon
- The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there’s no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list. Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive color. He uncovered the way gases behave. And, most significantly, he transformed the way physics was undertaken in his explanation of the interaction of electricity and magnetism, revealing the nature of light and laying the groundwork for everything from Einstein’s special relativity to modern electronics.
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Can you trust the facts?
- By Anonymous on 01-02-26
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Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon
- The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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2084: Audio Lectures
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
- By: John C. Lennox
- Narrated by: John C. Lennox
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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You don't have to be a computer scientist to get involved in the discussion about where artificial intelligence and technology are going. What will the year 2084 hold for you--for your friends, for your family, and for our society? Are we doomed to the grim dystopia imagined in George Orwell’s...
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2084: Audio Lectures
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by: John C. Lennox
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-09-20
- Language: English
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What Is Real?
- The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
- By: Adam Becker
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book Review An Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Longlisted for Goodreads Choice Award Every...
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What Is Real?
- The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 24-06-25
- Language: English
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Fragile Lives
- A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
- By: Stephen Westaby
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall192
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Performance181
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT’S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he’s worked on. Grim Reaper sits on the...
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What a book, what a man
- By Ruth Nixon on 01-05-17
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Fragile Lives
- A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-02-17
- Language: English
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IA – ¿Bendición o maldición? La revolución de nuestro pensamiento y nuestra vida
- Oportunidades, riesgos y las cuestiones éticas de una tecnología imparable
- By: M. Weber
- Narrated by: AI Voice AI Narrator – Synthesized Voice (Google WaveNet de-DE)
- Length: 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Imagina una IA que diagnostica cáncer antes de que un médico pueda hacerlo. Salva vidas. Pero en ese mismo momento, otra IA decide qué noticias ves – y cuáles no. ¿Eso es progreso? ¿O control? Un algoritmo que, como un director de orquesta...
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IA – ¿Bendición o maldición? La revolución de nuestro pensamiento y nuestra vida
- Oportunidades, riesgos y las cuestiones éticas de una tecnología imparable
- Narrated by: AI Voice AI Narrator – Synthesized Voice (Google WaveNet de-DE)
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 24-06-26
- Language: Spanish
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Electrified Sheep
- By: Alex Boese
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on...
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Electrified Sheep
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 09-01-25
- Language: English
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Psychedelic Apes
- From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs – the weirdest theories of science and history
- By: Alex Boese
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and history. What if we’re living inside a black hole? What if we’ve already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ...
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Psychedelic Apes
- From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs – the weirdest theories of science and history
- Narrated by: Jared Zeus
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-01-25
- Language: English
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
- By: Peter Brannen
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the celebrated author of The Ends of the World, an epic biography of the molecule that made – and could now break – everything we know All life is made from CO2 . It was there at earth’s birth, and throughout evolution. It has kept our planet habitable for...
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Immense; A Monument
- By Ricci on 26-04-26
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-08-25
- Language: English
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Mind and Cosmos
- Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
- By: Thomas Nagel
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete.
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Brilliant! A Theory of Life, Universe & Everything
- By Jim Vaughan on 12-06-16
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Mind and Cosmos
- Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-02-14
- Language: English
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to...
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Salmon
- A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
- Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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What Is Intelligence?
- Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds (Antikythera)
- By: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Narrated by: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
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Combining technical rigor and deep up-to-the-minute knowledge about AI development, the natural sciences (especially neuroscience), and philosophical literacy, "What Is Intelligence?" argues—quite against the grain—that certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will.
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A reader this bad could only be the author
- By maria on 10-06-26
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What Is Intelligence?
- Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds (Antikythera)
- Narrated by: Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-12-25
- Language: English
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
- Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
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Overall25
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Performance18
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From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time...
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Terrible Narrator
- By Paul Stansfield on 23-01-21
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
- Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-02-04
- Language: English
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After the Flying Saucers Came
- A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon
- By: Greg Eghigian
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Greg Eghigian tells the story of the world's fascination with UFOs and the prospect that they were the work of visitors from outer space. While accounts of great wonders in the sky date back to antiquity, reports of UFOs took place against the unique backdrop of the Cold War and space age. After the Flying Saucers Came traces how a seemingly isolated incident sparked an international drama involving shady figures, questionable evidence, suspicions of conspiracy, hoaxes, new religions, scandals, unsettling alien encounters, debunkers, and celebrities.
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Sensible account of insensible topic
- By PETER S WARING on 21-10-24
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After the Flying Saucers Came
- A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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The Interstellar Age
- The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
- By: Jim Bell
- Narrated by: Jim Bell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance70
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The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission— told by a scientist who was there from the beginning. The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries—11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch. Voyager...
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loved it
- By Marty on 03-12-21
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The Interstellar Age
- The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
- Narrated by: Jim Bell
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 24-02-15
- Language: English
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God - the Failed Hypothesis
- How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
- By: Victor J. Stenger
- Narrated by: David Smalley
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology, while science has sat on the sidelines. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and greatly clarified our understanding of the world, somehow the notion has arisen that it has nothing to say about the possibility of a supreme being, which much of humanity worships as the source of all reality.
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Fantastic
- By Andrew Hayman on 29-06-16
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God - the Failed Hypothesis
- How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
- Narrated by: David Smalley
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-04-16
- Language: English
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Simple Link Between Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
- Hidden in Plain Sight, Book 1
- By: Andrew Thomas
- Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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You never knew that theoretical physics could be so simple! In this exciting and significant audiobook, Andrew Thomas reveals how all unifications in physics have been based on incredibly simple ideas.
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Relative to other similar books, not a winner
- By Tim on 20-06-17
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Simple Link Between Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
- Hidden in Plain Sight, Book 1
- Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-04-15
- Language: English
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The Battle of the Beams
- The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War
- By: Tom Whipple
- Narrated by: Tom Whipple
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance50
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Brought to you by Penguin. Summer 1939. War is coming. The British believe that, through ingenuity and scientific prowess, they alone have a war-winning weapon: radar. They are wrong. The Germans have it too. They believe that their unique maritime history means their pilots have no need of...
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A lively and engaging story
- By deltavee on 03-06-24
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The Battle of the Beams
- The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War
- Narrated by: Tom Whipple
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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