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| The Spinning Magnet Audiobook by Alanna Mitchell | 30 Jan 2018 | 09:37:00 | |
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Title: The Spinning Magnet
Subtitle: The Force That Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It
Author: Alanna Mitchell
Narrator: P.J. Ochlan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-30-18
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
An engrossing history of the science of one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, electromagnetism, right up to the latest indications that the poles are soon to reverse and destroy the world's power grids and electronic communications
A cataclysmic planetary phenomenon is gathering force deep within the Earth. The magnetic North Pole will eventually trade places with the South Pole. Satellite evidence suggests to some scientists that the move has already begun, but most still think it won't happen for many decades. All agree that it has happened many times before and will happen again. But this time it will be different. It will be a very bad day for modern civilization.
Award-winning science journalist Alanna Mitchell tells in The Spinning Magnet the fascinating history of one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, electromagnetism. From investigations into magnetism in 13th-century feudal France and the realization 600 years later in the Victorian era that electricity and magnetism were essentially the same, to the discovery that Earth was itself a magnet, spinning in space with two poles and that those poles aperiodically reverse, this is a utterly engrossing narrative history of ideas and science that listeners of Stephen Greenblatt and Sam Kean will love.
The recent finding that Earth's magnetic force field is decaying 10 times faster than previously thought, portending an imminent pole reversal, ultimately gives this story a spine-tingling urgency. When the poles switch, a process that takes many years, Earth is unprotected from solar radiation storms that would, among other things, wipe out all electromagnetic technology. No satellites, no Internet, no smartphones - maybe no power grid at all. Such potentially cataclysmic solar storms are not unusual. The last one occurred in 2012, and we avoided returning to the Dark Ages only because the part of the sun that erupted happened to be facing away from Earth. One leading US researcher is already drawing maps of the parts of the planet that would likely become uninhabitable. | |||
| The Ascent of Gravity Audiobook by Marcus Chown | 07 Nov 2017 | 09:21:00 | |
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Title: The Ascent of Gravity
Subtitle: The Quest to Understand the Force That Explains Everything
Author: Marcus Chown
Narrator: Adjoa Andoh
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-07-17
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe.
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world, yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described, yet it is the least understood. It is a "force" that keeps your feet on the ground, yet no such force actually exists.
Gravity, to steal the words of Winston Churchill, is "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma". And penetrating that enigma promises to answer the biggest questions in science: What is space? What is time? What is the universe? And where did it all come from?
Award-winning writer Marcus Chown takes us on an unforgettable journey from the recognition of the "force" of gravity in 1666 to the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015. And, as we stand on the brink of a seismic revolution in our worldview, he brings us up to speed on the greatest challenge ever to confront physics. | |||
| Science and Spiritual Practices Audiobook by Rupert Sheldrake | 02 Nov 2017 | 08:13:00 | |
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Title: Science and Spiritual Practices
Subtitle: Transformative experiences and their effects on our bodies, brains and health
Author: Rupert Sheldrake
Narrator: Rupert Sheldrake
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-02-17
Publisher: Coronet
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
By the author of The Science Delusion, a detailed account of how science can authenticate spirituality.
In this pioneering book, Rupert Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which all religions are built and which are part of our common human heritage:
The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier. Rupert Sheldrake summarises the latest scientific research on what happens when we take part in these practices and suggests ways that listeners can explore these fields for themselves.
For those who are religious, Science and Spiritual Practices will illuminate the evolutionary origins of their own traditions and give a new appreciation of their power. For the nonreligious, this book will show how the core practices of spirituality are accessible to all, even if they do not subscribe to a religious belief system.
This is a book for anyone who suspects that in the drive towards radical secularism, something valuable has been left behind. Rupert Sheldrake believes that by opening ourselves to the spiritual dimension, we may find the strength to live more wholesome and fulfilling lives. | |||
| How to Build a Universe Audiobook by Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem | 19 Oct 2017 | 05:41:00 | |
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Title: How to Build a Universe
Subtitle: An Infinite Monkey Cage Adventure
Author: Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem
Narrator: Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem, Eric Idle - foreword
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-19-17
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
From the hosts of the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme comes this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels - a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms.
Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince take the musings of the great and the good of British science, producing an insight into the multifaceted subjects involved in building a universe, with pearls of wisdom from leading scientists and comedians peppered throughout.
Covering thousands of concepts and conundrums, they tackle everything from the big bang to parallel universes, fierce creatures to extraterrestrial life, brain science to artificial intelligence. Bringing together the best, most unusual and hilarious of the inquisitive minds that help us shape and understand our world, from Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dara Ó Briain to Sir Patrick Stewart, Tim Minchin, Stephen Fry and more, How to Build a Universe is an illuminating and inspirational celebration of science - sometimes silly, sometimes astounding and very occasionally facetious.
Critic Reviews:
"A witty and irreverent look at the world according to science." (Independent)
"Cox's romantic, lyrical approach to astrophysics all adds up to an experience that feels less like homework and more like having a story told to you. A really good story, too." (Guardian)
"He bridges the gap between our childish sense of wonder and a rather more professional grasp of the scale of things." (Independent) | |||
| The Quantum Labyrinth Audiobook by Paul Halpern | 17 Oct 2017 | 10:44:00 | |
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Title: The Quantum Labyrinth
Subtitle: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
Author: Paul Halpern
Narrator: Brian Troxell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-17-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 56 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history
In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality. The soft-spoken Wheeler, though conservative in appearance, was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The boisterous Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested. Yet they were complementary spirits.
Their collaboration led to a complete rethinking of the nature of time and reality. It enabled Feynman to show how quantum reality is a combination of alternative, contradictory possibilities and inspired Wheeler to develop his landmark concept of wormholes, portals to the future and past. Together, Feynman and Wheeler made sure that quantum physics would never be the same again.
Critic Reviews:
"Readers soon see that Feynman achieved his breakthroughs in physics by collaborating with his mentor, John Wheeler.... With the same clarity that has attracted readers to Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat and his other books of popular science, Halpern retraces the way this unlikely pair smashed traditional understandings of time...a compelling reminder that even the most triumphant science comes from vulnerable humans." (Booklist)
"Go to any physics meeting and ask each person there for their list of the top ten most influential physicists of the 20th century. Lots of different names will appear, but everybody will name Einstein (of course!). Nearly all will mention Feynman and Wheeler, too. After [listening to] Halpern's thought-provoking book, you'll understand why." (Paul J. Nahin, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at University of New Hampshire and author of In Praise of Simple Physics) | |||
| El bosón de Higgs no te va a hacer la cama [The Higgs-Boson Is Not Going to Make Your Bed] Audio Libro por Javier Santaolalla | 09 Oct 2017 | 12:25:00 | |
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Título: El bosón de Higgs no te va a hacer la cama [The Higgs-Boson Is Not Going to Make Your Bed]
Subtitular: La física como nunca te la han contado [Physics Like You've Never Been Told]
Autor: Javier Santaolalla
Narrador: Enric Puig
Formato: Unabridged
Duración: 12 hrs and 25 mins
Idioma: Español
Fecha de publicación: 10-09-17
Editor: Audible Studios
Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 10 votos
Categorías: Science & Technology, Physics
Resumen del editor:
Viajes en el tiempo, agujeros negros, motores de antimateria, aceleración del universo...La física moderna suena a película, pero es ciencia, de la de verdad verdadera, la que nos cuenta una historia fascinante de descubrimientos y sueños cumplidos, de luchas y disputas, y de pasión por comprender la naturaleza.
Este divertido audio libro te ayudará a entender de una vez por todas lo que nos rodea, desde lo más pequeño a lo más grande, y a saber que El bosón de Higgs no te va a hacer la cama, ¡ni aunque le insistas!
Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish. | |||
| Applied Predictive Modeling: An Overview Audiobook by Steven Taylor | 27 Sep 2017 | 01:53:00 | |
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Title: Applied Predictive Modeling: An Overview
Author: Steven Taylor
Narrator: William Bahl
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-27-17
Publisher: Steven Taylor
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Predictive modeling uses statistics in order to predict outcomes. However, predictive modeling can be applied to events regardless of time of occurrence. When it comes to the applications of predictive modeling, techniques are used in various fields including algorithmic trading, uplift modeling, archaeology, health care, customer relationship management, and many others. This book covers the predictive modeling process with fundamental steps of the process, data preprocessing, data splitting and crucial steps of model tuning and improving model performance.
Further, the book will introduce you to the most common classification and regression techniques including logistic regression which is widely used when it comes to the finding the probability of event success or event failure. You will get to know the common predictive modeling techniques as well such as stepwise regression, polynomial regression, and ridge regression which will help you when you are dealing with the data that suffers from very common multicollinearity where independent variables are highly correlated.
What you will learn in Applied Predictive Modeling:
Listen to this book now and learn more about applied predictive modeling! | |||
| Zapped Audiobook by Bob Berman | 08 Aug 2017 | 08:10:00 | |
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Title: Zapped
Subtitle: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light
Author: Bob Berman
Narrator: Peter Ganim
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-08-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 30 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
How much do you know about the radiation all around you?
Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear, smell, or feel it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of it will kill you, but without it you wouldn't live a year.
From beloved popular science writer Bob Berman, Zapped tells the story of all the light we cannot see, tracing infrared, microwaves, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves and other forms of radiation from their historic, world-altering discoveries in the 19th century to their central role in our modern way of life, setting the record straight on health costs (and benefits) and exploring the consequences of our newest technologies.
Lively, informative, and packed with fun facts and "eureka moments", Zapped will delight anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of our world.
Critic Reviews:
"An enthusiastic account of all the light we cannot see from a science popularizer with a knack for presenting hard facts clearly and stylishly... For those concerned about health and safety, the author deftly separates fact from myths about cell phones, brain scans, and other sources of radiation... A guide for laymen written with gusto and assurance." (Kirkus) | |||
| Broca's Brain Audiobook by Carl Sagan | 25 Jul 2017 | 12:16:00 | |
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Title: Broca's Brain
Subtitle: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Author: Carl Sagan
Narrator: Dion Graham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-25-17
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 32 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and other provocative, fascinating quandaries of the future that we want to see today. | |||
| New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything Audiobook by New Scientist, Graham Lawton, Stephen Hawking | 29 Jun 2017 | 07:36:00 | |
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Title: New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything
Subtitle: From the Big Bang to Belly-button Fluff
Author: New Scientist, Graham Lawton, Stephen Hawking
Narrator: David Thorpe
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-29-17
Publisher: John Murray
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Does Anything Eat Wasps? meets Information Is Beautiful: a journey through life, the universe and everything. From what actually happened in the big bang to the accidental discovery of Post-it notes, science is packed with surprising discoveries.
Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why your keyboard is laid out in QWERTY (it's not to make it easier to type) or whether the invention of the wheel was less important to civilisation than the bag (think about it)? New Scientist does.
And now they want to take you on a whistle-stop journey from the start of our universe (through the history of stars, galaxies, meteorites, the moon and dark energy) to our planet (through oceans and weather to oil) and life (through dinosaurs to emotions and sex) to civilisation (from cities to alcohol and cooking) and knowledge (from alphabets to alchemy), ending up with technology (computers to rocket science). Witty essays explore concepts that zoom from how many people have ever lived to showing you how a left-wing brain differs from a right-wing one. | |||
| The Reassembler Audiobook by James May | 22 Jun 2017 | 02:05:00 | |
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Title: The Reassembler
Author: James May
Narrator: James May
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-22-17
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 25 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
From the humble garden lawnmower to the ear-splitting electric guitar, James May returns with a typically wacky account of what makes these great machines work, one piece at a time.
Reassembly is merely a form of therapy, something that stimulates a part of my brain that is left wanting in my daily life. When I rebuild a bicycle, I reorder my head. So might you....
I'm delighted that you will be listening to an audiobook about putting things back together. It's a subject that fascinates me but which I assumed was a lonely passion that I would take to the grave, unconsummated by the normal channels of human interaction. Welcome! You and I, we are not alone, and our screwdrivers are our flashing Excaliburs as we sally forth to make small parts of the fragmented world whole again. | |||
| Infinite Monkey Cage Audiobook by Brian Cox, Robin Ince | 15 Jun 2017 | 11:02:00 | |
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Title: Infinite Monkey Cage
Subtitle: The Complete Series 1-5
Author: Brian Cox, Robin Ince
Narrator: Brian Cox, full cast, Robin Ince
Format: Original Recording
Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-15-17
Publisher: BBC Digital Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
The complete series 1-5 of the Sony Award Winning BBC Radio 4 show, The Infinite Monkey Cage, presented by physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince.
Described by judges of the Sony Award as 'a brilliant way of being both innovative and instructive, bringing humour to what some will see as a dull subject. It's listenable, educational and brings a whole new audience to both the subject and the station.'
The duo, assisted by a panel of experts and entertainers, tackle subjects such as biology, cosmology, physics and why Brian's hair is always so perfect. Guests include Dara Ó Briain, Jon Ronson, Stephen Fry and Dave Gorman, amongst many more. The Infinite Monkey Cage is an engaging, entertaining and educational show that puts the fun back into science. | |||
| Atomic Adventures Audiobook by James Mahaffey | 06 Jun 2017 | 13:29:00 | |
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Title: Atomic Adventures
Subtitle: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder - A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
Author: James Mahaffey
Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-06-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 415 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent, conspiracy theorist or pragmatist, James Mahaffey's books have served to open up the world of nuclear science like never before. With clear explanations of some of the most complex scientific endeavors in history, Mahaffey's new book looks back at the atom's wild, secretive past and then toward its potentially bright future.
Mahaffey unearths lost reactors on far-flung Pacific islands and trees that were exposed to active fission that changed gender or bloomed in the dead of winter. He explains why we have nuclear submarines but not nuclear aircraft and why cold fusion doesn't exist. And who knew that radiation counting was once a fashionable trend?
Though parts of the nuclear history might seem like a fiction mash-up where cowboys somehow got a hold of a reactor, Mahaffey's vivid prose holds the listener in thrall of the infectious energy of scientific curiosity and ingenuity that may one day hold the key to solving our energy crisis or sending us to Mars. | |||
| Scale Audiobook by Geoffrey West | 18 May 2017 | 19:12:00 | |
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Title: Scale
Subtitle: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
Author: Geoffrey West
Narrator: Bruce Mann
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-18-17
Publisher: Orion
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.
Scale addresses big, urgent questions about global sustainability, population explosion, urbanization, ageing, cancer, human life spans and the increasing pace of life but also encourages us to question the world around us.
Why can we live for 120 years but not for a thousand? Why does the pace of life continually increase? Why do mice live for just two or three years and elephants for up to 75? Why do companies behave like mice, and are they all destined to die? Do cities, companies and human beings have natural, predetermined life spans? Are we just a fascinating experiment in natural selection that is ultimately doomed to fail? And what is the origin of the magic number four that seems to determine much of physiology and life history from birth to death?
Critic Reviews:
"An absolutely riveting read...groundbreaking." (Marcus du Sautoy)
"This book will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
"Scale is a firework display of popular science." (Niall Ferguson)
"This is an important and original book, of immense scope." (Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal) | |||
| The Physics of Everyday Things Audiobook by James Kakalios | 16 May 2017 | 00:05:00 | |
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Title: The Physics of Everyday Things
Subtitle: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
Author: James Kakalios
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 05-16-17
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 60 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Physics professor, best-selling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smartphones and digital "clouds" to X-ray machines and hybrid vehicles.
Most of us are clueless when it comes to the physics that makes our modern world so convenient. What's the simple science behind motion sensors, touch screens, and toasters? How do we glide through tolls using an E-ZPass or find our way to new places using GPS? In The Physics of Everyday Things, James Kakalios takes us on an amazing journey into the subatomic marvels that underlie so much of what we use and take for granted.
Breaking down the world of things into a single day, Kakalios engages our curiosity about how our refrigerators keep food cool, how a plane manages to remain airborne, and how our wrist fitness monitors keep track of our steps. Each explanation is coupled with a story revealing the interplay of the astonishing invisible forces that surround us. Through this "narrative physics," The Physics of Everyday Things demonstrates that - far from the abstractions conjured by terms like the Higgs boson, black holes, and gravity waves - sophisticated science is also quite practical. With his signature clarity and inventiveness, Kakalios ignites our imaginations and enthralls us with the principles that make up our lives.
Critic Reviews:
"From start to finish, this is a fun and comprehensive introduction to many of the forces that govern how we interact with each other and the world around us.... Once again, Kakalios makes physics relatable, this time demonstrating how profoundly its principles enable our way of life." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Sure to awaken in readers a new awareness of science operating beneath familiar surfaces, this analysis also opens a historical perspective on the inventions that have reshaped the world - once dependent on little-understood steam engines, now exploiting ingeniously engineered semiconductors. A fascinating inquiry exposing hidden science." (Booklist) | |||
| We Have No Idea Audiobook by Daniel Whiteson, Jorge Cham | 09 May 2017 | 09:03:00 | |
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Title: We Have No Idea
Subtitle: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Author: Daniel Whiteson, Jorge Cham
Narrator: Daniel Whiteson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-09-17
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 60 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Prepare to learn everything we still don't know about our strange, mostly mysterious universe.
PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmological knowledge, armed with their entertaining and lucid explanations of science.
In We Have No Idea, they explore the biggest unknowns in the universe, why these things are still mysteries, and what a lot of smart people are doing to figure out the answers (or at least ask the right questions). While they're at it, they helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, they invite us to see the universe as a vast expanse of mostly uncharted territory that's still ours to explore.
This entertaining science primer is the perfect book for anyone who's curious about all the big questions physicists are still trying to answer. | |||
| Beyond Biocentrism Audiobook by Bob Berman, Robert Lanza | 18 Apr 2017 | 07:16:00 | |
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Title: Beyond Biocentrism
Subtitle: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
Author: Bob Berman, Robert Lanza
Narrator: Peter Ganim
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-18-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 128 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality.
But that was just the beginning. In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People in 2014", and leading astronomer Bob Berman take the listener on an intellectual thrill ride as they reexamine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself.
The first step is acknowledging that our existing model of reality is looking increasingly creaky in the face of recent scientific discoveries. Science tells us with some precision that the universe is 26.8 percent dark matter, 68.3 percent dark energy, and only 4.9 percent ordinary matter but must confess that it doesn't really know what dark matter is and knows even less about dark energy. Science is increasingly pointing toward an infinite universe but has no ability to explain what that really means. Concepts such as time, space, and even causality are increasingly being demonstrated as meaningless.
All of science is based on information passing through our consciousness, but science hasn't the foggiest idea what consciousness is, and it can't explain the linkage between subatomic states and observation by conscious observers. Science describes life as a random occurrence in a dead universe but has no real understanding of how life began or why the universe appears to be exquisitely designed for the emergence of life.
The biocentrism theory isn't a rejection of science. Quite the opposite. Biocentrism challenges us to fully accept the implications of the latest scientific findings in fields ranging from plant biology and cosmology to quantum entanglement and consciousness.
By listening to what the science is telling us, it becomes increasingly clear that life and consciousness are fundamental to any true understanding of the universe. This forces a fundamental rethinking of everything we thought we knew about life, death, and our place in the universe. | |||
| The Great Unknown Audiobook by Marcus du Sautoy | 11 Apr 2017 | 14:41:00 | |
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Title: The Great Unknown
Subtitle: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Author: Marcus du Sautoy
Narrator: Marcus du Sautoy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-11-17
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 81 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
A captivating journey to the outer reaches of human knowledge
Ever since the dawn of civilization, we have been driven by a desire to know - to understand the physical world and the laws of nature. But are there limits to human knowledge? Are some things simply beyond the predictive powers of science? Or are those challenges the next big discovery waiting to happen?
In The Great Unknown, one of the world's most beloved mathematicians takes us into the minds of science's greatest innovators as he probes the many deep mysteries we have yet to solve. He reminds us that major breakthroughs were often ridiculed at the time of their discovery and takes us on a whirlwind tour of seven frontiers of knowledge, where scientists are grappling with the unknown. Can you locate consciousness in the brain? Is our universe infinite? What is dark energy made of? What happens to time in space? Is it possible to beat ageing?
At once exhilarating and mind bending, The Great Unknown will challenge you to think in new ways about every aspect of the known world. It invites us to consider big questions - about who we are and the nature of God - that even the most creative scientists have yet to answer definitively.
Critic Reviews:
"Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." (Bill Bryson) | |||
| Your Brain Is a Time Machine Audiobook by Dean Buonomano | 04 Apr 2017 | 08:51:00 | |
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Title: Your Brain Is a Time Machine
Subtitle: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Author: Dean Buonomano
Narrator: Aaron Abano
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-04-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 80 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
A leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain.
In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell and perceive time. The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological flow and enables "mental time travel" - simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. The brain was designed to navigate our continuously changing world by predicting what will happen and when.
Buonomano combines neuroscience expertise with a far-ranging, multidisciplinary approach. With engaging style, he illuminates such concepts as consciousness, spacetime, and relativity while addressing profound questions that have long occupied scientists and philosophers alike. What is time? Is our sense of time's passage an illusion? Does free will exist, or is the future predetermined? In pursuing the answers, Buonomano reveals as much about the fascinating architecture of the human brain as he does about the intricacies of time itself. This virtuosic work of popular science leads to an astonishing realization: Your brain is, at its core, a time machine. | |||
| Beyond Infinity Audiobook by Eugenia Cheng | 28 Mar 2017 | 08:32:00 | |
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Title: Beyond Infinity
Subtitle: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
Author: Eugenia Cheng
Narrator: Moira Quirk
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-28-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 32 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Imagine something small enough to fit in your head but too large to fit in the world - or even the universe. What would you call it? And what would it be? How about...infinity?
In Beyond Infinity, musician, chef, and mathematician Eugenia Cheng answers this question by taking listeners on a startling journey from math at its most elemental to its loftiest abstractions. Beginning with the classic thought experiment of Hilbert's hotel - the place where you can (almost) always find a room, if you don't mind being moved from room to room over the course of the night - she explores the wild and woolly world of the infinitely large and the infinitely small. Along the way she considers weighty questions like why some numbers are uncountable or why infinity plus one is not the same as one plus infinity. She finds insight in some unlikely examples: planning a dinner party for seven billion people using a chessboard, making a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and creating infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough all tell you more about math than you could have imagined.
An irresistible book on the universe's biggest possible topic, Beyond Infinity will beguile and bewitch you and show all of us how one little symbol - - can hold the biggest idea of all.
Critic Reviews:
"The idea of infinity is one of the most perplexing things in mathematics, and the most fun. Eugenia Cheng's Beyond Infinity is a spirited and friendly guide - appealingly down to earth about math that's extremely far out." (Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong and professor of mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Madison) | |||
| Popular Lectures on Logic Audiobook by J.-M. Kuczynski | 20 Mar 2017 | 03:19:00 | |
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Title: Popular Lectures on Logic
Author: J.-M. Kuczynski
Narrator: J.-M. Kuczynski
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-20-17
Publisher: J.-M. Kuczynski
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 58 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Clear answers are given to important questions in both theoretical and applied logic. The writing is cogent and straightforward. Table of contents: | |||
| Other Minds Audiobook by Peter Godfrey-Smith | 09 Mar 2017 | 06:43:00 | |
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Title: Other Minds
Subtitle: The Octopus and The Evolution of Intelligent Life
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith
Narrator: Peter Noble
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-09-17
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness.
Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this audiobook he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself.
Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sprouted surprising intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. New research shows that these marvellous creatures display remarkable gifts.
What does it mean that intelligence on Earth has evolved not once but twice? And that the mind of the octopus is nonetheless so different from our own? Combining science and philosophy with firsthand accounts of his cephalopod encounters, Godfrey-Smith shows how primitive organisms bobbing in the ocean began sending signals to each other and how these early forms of communication gave rise to the advanced nervous systems that permit cephalopods to change colours and human beings to speak.
By tracing the problem of consciousness back to its roots and comparing the human brain to its most alien and perhaps most remarkable animal relative, Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds sheds new light on one of our most abiding mysteries. | |||
| Tides Audiobook by Jonathan White, Peter Matthiessen - Foreward | 14 Feb 2017 | 11:12:00 | |
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Title: Tides
Subtitle: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Author: Jonathan White, Peter Matthiessen - Foreward
Narrator: Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-14-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 24 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.
In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a 25-foot tidal bore that crashes 80 miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture - the very old and very new.
Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet's waters in constant motion. | |||
| Reality Is Not What It Seems Audiobook by Erica Segre - translator, Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell - translator | 24 Jan 2017 | 06:07:00 | |
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Title: Reality Is Not What It Seems
Subtitle: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Author: Erica Segre - translator, Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell - translator
Narrator: Roy McMillan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-24-17
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 513 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
From the New York Times best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed over the last few dozen centuries.
In elegant and accessible prose, Rovelli takes us on a wondrous journey from Aristotle to Albert Einstein, from Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity. As he shows us how the idea of reality has evolved over time, Rovelli offers listeners a deeper understanding of the theories he introduced so concisely in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. His evocative explanations invite us to imagine, beyond our ever-changing idea of reality, a whole new world that has yet to be discovered. | |||
| Why Time Flies Audiobook by Alan Burdick | 24 Jan 2017 | 09:31:00 | |
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Title: Why Time Flies
Subtitle: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Author: Alan Burdick
Narrator: George Newbern
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-24-17
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 81 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Time is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds, and it advances through every living moment. But what is time exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly?
In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes listeners on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that "now" actually happened a split-second ago; finds a 25th hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist's lab, even makes time go backward. Why Time Flies is an instant classic, a vivid and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside us all. | |||
| Dark Emu Audiobook by Bruce Pascoe | 10 Jan 2017 | 05:36:00 | |
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Title: Dark Emu
Subtitle: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
Author: Bruce Pascoe
Narrator: Bruce Pascoe
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-10-17
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
A completely accessible, compelling and riveting account of pre-invasion Aboriginal agricultural systems.
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required. | |||
| Storm in a Teacup Audiobook by Helen Czerski | 10 Jan 2017 | 10:13:00 | |
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Title: Storm in a Teacup
Subtitle: The Physics of Everyday Life
Author: Helen Czerski
Narrator: Chloe Massey
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-10-17
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 119 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Take a look up at the stars on a clear night, and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos is as close as the nearest toaster?
Our home here on earth is messy, mutable, and full of humdrum things that we touch and modify without much thought every day. But these familiar surroundings are just the place to look if you're interested in what makes the universe tick. In Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects and occurrences, like popcorn popping, coffee stains, and fridge magnets, to big ideas like climate change, the energy crisis, and innovative medical testing. She guides us through the principles of gases ("explosions in the kitchen are generally considered a bad idea. But just occasionally a small one can produce something delicious"); gravity (drop some raisins in a bottle of carbonated lemonade and watch the whoosh of bubbles and the dancing raisins at the bottom bumping into each other); size (Czerski explains the action of the water molecules that cause the crime-scene stain left by a puddle of dried coffee); and time (why it takes so long for ketchup to come out of a bottle).
Along the way she provides answers to vexing questions: How does water travel from the roots of a redwood tree to its crown? How do ducks keep their feet warm when walking on ice? Why does milk, when added to tea, look like billowing storm clouds? In an engaging voice at once warm and witty, Czerski shares her stunning breadth of knowledge to lift the veil of familiarity from the ordinary. You may never look at your toaster the same way. | |||
| Sir Arthur Eddington: On the Nature of Things Audiobook by David Christopher Lane | 07 Dec 2016 | 01:39:00 | |
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Title: Sir Arthur Eddington: On the Nature of Things
Author: David Christopher Lane
Narrator: Neil Reeves
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-07-16
Publisher: MSAC Philosophy Group
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
It is not too often that a brilliant scientist is also a wonderfully gifted writer. Sir Arthur Eddington was both. Brought up as a Quaker (he was a pacifist during World War One), Eddington was by all accounts a brilliant mathematician and physicist, who eventually became a professor of astronomy at Cambridge University. Sir Arthur Eddington is perhaps most famous for partially confirming Albert Einstein's theory of relativity back in 1919. Sir Arthur Eddington was also famous as a popularizer of science and for advocating a more mystical view of the universe, one which exceeded the grasp of materialistic science. In this regard he was something of a renegade and though his writings on the mathematics of relativity won universal praise, his more spiritually speculative philosophy was met with resistance in more staid scientific quarters. The following book includes selections from Eddington's two most well-known writings, The Nature of the Physical World and Space, Time, and Gravitation. The excerpts that we included are "On the Nature of Things" and "Reality". Hopefully these small literary gems will serve as intellectual appetizers to listeners not familiar with Sir Arthur Eddington and inspire them to look deeper into this fascinating man and his scientific philosophy on the universe at large and our precarious place within it. Also included is a brief biography which goes into some detail about his life and work. | |||
| Light Falls Audiobook by Brian Greene | 25 Oct 2016 | 02:26:00 | |
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Title: Light Falls
Subtitle: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein
Author: Brian Greene
Narrator: Brian Greene, Paul Rudd, Peter Ganim, Suzanne Toren, Edoardo Ballerini, Julian Elfer, Kevin Pariseau, Jonathan Davis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-25-16
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1577 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Best-selling author, superstar physicist, and cofounder of the World Science Festival Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos) and an ensemble cast led by award-winning actor Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) perform this dramatic story tracing Albert Einstein's discovery of the general theory of relativity. Featuring an original score by composer Jeff Beal (House of Cards, Pollock), Einsteins electrifying journey toward his greatest achievement is brought vividly to life.
The theatrical version of Light Falls was first performed at the World Science Festival in New York City.
Full list of narrators includes Graeme Malcolm. | |||
| Time Travel Audiobook by James Gleick | 27 Sep 2016 | 00:10:00 | |
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Title: Time Travel
Subtitle: A History
Author: James Gleick
Narrator: Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 09-27-16
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 320 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the 20th century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation: The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture, from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.
Critic Reviews:
"In his enthralling new book, James Gleick mounts H.G. Wells's time machine for an invigorating ride through the most baffling of the four dimensions. In these pages, time flies." (John Banville)
"James Gleick is a master historian of ideas - no one else can do what he does. Synthesis leads to elucidation leads to stunning, original insight. Time Travel, like so much of his work, is simply indispensable." (Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe)
"Magnificent. A riveting history of an idea that changed us so profoundly, we forgot we had even been changed. But Gleick remembers." (Lev Grossman, books editor of TIME and author of the Magicians trilogy) | |||
| Now Audiobook by Richard A. Muller | 20 Sep 2016 | 10:02:00 | |
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Title: Now
Subtitle: The Physics of Time - and the Ephemeral Moment That Einstein Could Not Explain
Author: Richard A. Muller
Narrator: Christopher Grove
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-20-16
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 350 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
You are reading the word now right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment now so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. Einstein showed that the flow of time is affected by both velocity and gravity, yet he despaired at his failure to explain the meaning of now. Equally puzzling: Why does time flow? Some physicists have given up trying to understand and call the flow of time an illusion, but eminent experimentalist physicist Richard A. Muller protests. He says physics should explain reality, not deny it.
In Now, Muller does more than poke holes in past ideas; he crafts his own revolutionary theory, one that makes testable predictions. He begins by laying out - with the refreshing clarity that made Physics for Future Presidents so successful - a firm and remarkably clear explanation of the physics building blocks of his theory: relativity, entropy, entanglement, antimatter, and the big bang. With the stage thus set, he reveals a startling way forward.
Muller points out that the standard big bang theory explains the ongoing expansion of the universe as the continuous creation of new space. He argues that time is also expanding and that the leading edge of the new time is what we experience as now. This thought-provoking vision has remarkable implications for some of our biggest questions, not only in physics but also in philosophy, including the ongoing debate about the reality of free will. Moreover, his theory is testable. Muller's monumental work will spark major debate about the most fundamental assumptions of our universe and may crack one of physics' longest-standing enigmas.
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| Light Audiobook by Bruce Watson | 23 Aug 2016 | 11:27:00 | |
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Title: Light
Subtitle: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
Author: Bruce Watson
Narrator: Michael Butler Murray
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-23-16
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine.
Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a 'heaven of pure light.' Later, following Leonardo's advice, Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas. During the Scientific Revolution, Galileo gathered light in his telescope, Descartes measured the rainbow, and Newton used prisms to solidify the science of optics. But even after Newton, light was an enigma.
Particle or wave? Did it flow through an invisible 'ether'? Through the age of Edison and into the age of lasers, Light reveals how light sparked new wonders - relativity, quantum electrodynamics, fiber optics, and more. Although lasers now perform everyday miracles, light retains its eternal allure. "For the rest of my life," Einstein said, "I will reflect on what light is." Light explores and celebrates such curiosity.
Critic Reviews:
"A sweeping cultural and scientific history of our understanding of light.... With his trademark good storytelling and wide reading, Watson takes us on a delightful journey." (Alan Lightman, The Washington Post)
"Watson's touch is lyrical and deft.... [Light] is an eye-catching display, reflecting and refracting like a gemstone." (Nature)
"Bruce Watson's new book...has the buoyant tone of a writer who is having fun - and who is able to convey that sense of excitement and discovery to the reader. Light, the phenomenon, has fascinated people for millennia. Light, the book, will fascinate them now." (Charles C. Mann, author of the New York Times best sellers 1491 and 1493) | |||
| Quantum Physics Audiobook by Jared Hendricks | 17 Aug 2016 | 02:18:00 | |
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Title: Quantum Physics
Subtitle: Beginner's Guide to the Most Amazing Physics Theories
Author: Jared Hendricks
Narrator: Steve Taylor
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-17-16
Publisher: Jared Hendricks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Ever wonder about how light moves? What does it mean to study the smallest particles known to man? How does science measure the smallest particles in the world, such as atoms, protons, neutrons and electrons? What is ether and how did it become a source of debate in the scientific community? Studying the smallest particles known to man can be exciting work. This study of the world on the molecular level, particularly matter and energy, is the realm of Quantum Physics. Scientists use mathematical equations to help them explain the behavior of matter and energy within the Universe. If you have a curiosity about the world of Quantum Physics, but thought the science textbooks would be too much to absorb, this book is for you. With an overview of what Quantum Physics is, historical background into the scientists who created many of the theories that make up Quantum Physics, and a look at a few of those theories. Quantum Physics is more than the study of matter and energy, but dives into the behavior of matter and energy on a molecular level. Scientists use the information they gather through experiments, observation and continually more precise measuring tools to explain how the building blocks of our world work together. This book dives into a discussion of wave particle duality and how this theory has continued to mystify scientists even today. Or learn how a particle can appear to go through the wall, versus around it. Using light as an example, this book explains how wave particle duality was discovered, who was able to explain the multiple conflicting observations and finally, what scientists have used this information to create. Learn about Einstein and his disagreements with the scientists of his time over various theories in Quantum Physics. Get a better understanding of how theories within Quantum Physics relate to one another. Receive a basic understanding of the Unified Force Theory and how science is still working to prove this unique all-encompassing theory. | |||
| Quantum Physics and Universal Determinism Audiobook by J.-M. Kuczynski | 21 Jul 2016 | 00:17:00 | |
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Title: Quantum Physics and Universal Determinism
Subtitle: A Dialogue
Author: J.-M. Kuczynski
Narrator: Judy Rounda
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-21-16
Publisher: PHILOSOPHYPEDIA
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
In this fictitious dialogue, it is clearly explained how quantum physics is deterministic and how it is indeterministic, and it is also clearly said what Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is. | |||
| Parallel Worlds Audiobook by Michio Kaku | 05 Jul 2016 | 14:54:00 | |
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Title: Parallel Worlds
Subtitle: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Author: Michio Kaku
Narrator: Marc Vietor
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-05-16
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 316 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Is our universe dying?
Could there be other universes?
In Parallel Worlds, world-renowned physicist and best-selling author Michio Kaku - an author who "has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth" (Wall Street Journal) - takes listeners on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the universe.
In his first book of physics since Hyperspace, Michio Kaku begins by describing the extraordinary advances that have transformed cosmology over the last century and particularly over the last decade, forcing scientists around the world to rethink our understanding of the birth of the universe and its ultimate fate. In Dr. Kaku's eyes, we are living in a golden age of physics, as new discoveries from the WMAP and COBE satellites and the Hubble space telescope have given us unprecedented pictures of our universe in its infancy.
As astronomers wade through the avalanche of data from the WMAP satellite, a new cosmological picture is emerging. So far the leading theory about the birth of the universe is the "inflationary universe theory", a major refinement on the big bang theory. In this theory our universe may be but one in a multiverse, floating like a bubble in an infinite sea of bubble universes, with new universes being created all the time. A parallel universe may well hover a mere millimeter from our own.
The very idea of parallel universes and the string theory that can explain their existence was once viewed with suspicion by scientists, seen as the province of mystics, charlatans, and cranks. But today physicists overwhelmingly support string theory and its latest iteration, M-theory, as it is this one theory that, if proven correct, would reconcile the four forces of the universe simply and elegantly and answer the question "what happened before the big bang?"
Already, Kaku explains, the world's foremost physicists and astronomers are searching for ways to test the theory of the multiverse using highly sophisticated wave detectors, gravity lenses, satellites, and telescopes. The implications of M-theory are fascinating and endless. If parallel worlds do exist, Kaku speculates, in time - perhaps a trillion years or more from now, as appears likely - when our universe grows cold and dark in what scientists describe as a big freeze, advanced civilizations may well find a way to escape our universe in a kind of "interdimensional lifeboat".
An unforgettable journey into black holes and time machines, alternate universes, and multidimensional space, Parallel Worlds gives us a compelling portrait of the revolution sweeping the world of cosmology.
Critic Reviews:
"In
Parallel Worlds, Michio Kaku brings his formidable explanatory talents to bear on one of the strangest and most exciting possibilities to have emerged from modern physics: that our universe may be but one among many, perhaps infinitely many, arrayed in a vast cosmic network. With deft use of analogy and humor, Kaku patiently introduces the reader to variations on this theme of parallel universes, coming from quantum mechanics, cosmology, and most recently, M-theory. | |||
| The Tyrannosaur Chronicles Audiobook by David Hone | 30 Jun 2016 | 08:30:00 | |
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Title: The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
Author: David Hone
Narrator: Gavin Osborn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-30-16
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 37 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Adored by children and adults alike, tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, triceratops, or velociraptors in Jurassic Park. But despite the hype, tyrannosaurus and the other tyrannosaurs are fascinating animals in their own right and are among the best-studied of all dinosaurs.
Tyrannosaurs started small but over the course of 100 million years evolved into the giant carnivorous bone crushers that continue to inspire awe in palaeontologists, screenplay writers, sci-fi novelists and the general public alike. Tyrannosaurus itself was truly impressive; it topped six tons, was more than 12 meters (40 feet) long and had the largest head and most powerful bite of any land animal in history.
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles tracks the rise of these dinosaurs and presents the latest research into their biology, showing off more than just their impressive statistics - tyrannosaurs had feathers and fought and even ate each other.
This audiobook presents the science behind this research; it tells the story of the group through their anatomy, ecology and behaviour, exploring how they came to be the dominant terrestrial predators of the Mesozoic era and, in more recent times, one of the great icons of biology.
Critic Reviews:
"Dinosaurs are endlessly fascinating, and the massive, blood-thirsty tyrannosaurs are most popular (and scary) of the lot! Here, renowned dinosaur expert David Hone reveals their story, and how we know what we know about these most amazing of ancient reptiles." (Professor Mike Benton, University of Bristol)
"Without doubt, the best book on tyrannosaurs I've ever read. This is an awesome dinosaur book." (Professor Xu Xing, Chinese Academy of Sciences) | |||
| The Gene Audiobook by Siddhartha Mukherjee | 02 Jun 2016 | 19:27:00 | |
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Title: The Gene
Subtitle: An Intimate History
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-02-16
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 41 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from best-selling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.
The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a 'unit of heredity'. It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms postwar biology. It reorganises our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and freewill. This is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds - from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes.
This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea coming to life by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. But woven through The Gene like a red line is also an intimate history - the story of Mukherjee's own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives. These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to 'read' and 'write' the human genome - unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children.
Majestic in its ambition and unflinching in its honesty, The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity - and a vision of both humanity's past and its future. | |||
| Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design Audiobook by Perry Marshall | 21 Apr 2016 | 00:11:00 | |
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Title: Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design
Author: Perry Marshall
Narrator: Perry Marshall
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 04-21-16
Publisher: Self
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 32 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
One-Hundred-Fifty Years Later, the Creation-Evolution Debate Still Rages. Both Sides Are Half-Right. And Both Are Wrong.
Meet the opponents:
In one corner - Proponents of Intelligent Design like William Dembski, Stephen Meyer, and Michael Behe. Many defy scientific consensus, maintaining evolution is a fraud. They challenge decades of data in biology, chemistry, genetics, and paleontology.
In the other corner - Devout Neo-Darwinists like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Jerry Coyne, who insist evolution happens "willy nilly". Strangely, they sidestep the latest science, glossing over crucial questions and fascinating details. But what if both sides are half-right?
What if both sides are missing something important, clinging on to outdated views, theories, and interpretations?
There is a third way. Evolution 2.0 reveals experiments which prove that, while evolution is not a hoax, neither are changes random nor accidental. They are targeted, adaptive, and aware.
The book features a Technology Prize for Origin of Information: $3 million USD as of Spring 2016. Details in Chapter 23 and Appendix 4.
Critic Reviews:
Evolution 2.0 is a remarkably meticulous dissection of the experimental evidence on evolution. Perry starts from information theory and practice; I started from research on the hearts pacemaker, but we have come to almost identical conclusions. (Denis Noble, fellow of the Royal Society, University of Oxford)
Evolution 2.0 is engaging, thought provoking, and challenges us to reboot the riddle of evolutionary biology. By re-examining Darwin, Marshall asks us to reconsider the most important question we face - what is life? (Dr. John S. Torday, professor, Evolutionary Medicine Program, UCLA)
It is amazing that this non-biologist has analyzed life phenomena at the cellular and molecular levels to such depth and width by applying a wide range of available information gained by cutting-edge methodologies in life sciences. (Dr. Kwang Jeon, editor, International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology) | |||
| The Universe in Your Hand Audiobook by Christophe Galfard | 07 Apr 2016 | 09:50:00 | |
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Title: The Universe in Your Hand
Subtitle: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
Author: Christophe Galfard
Narrator: Ray Chase
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-07-16
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 93 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Stephen Hawking's protégé and cowriter lifts the veil on the mysteries of our universe in a style that is wonderfully direct. Quantum physics, black holes, string theory, the big bang, dark matter, dark energy, parallel universes: Even if we are interested in these fundamental concepts of our world, their language is the language of math. Which means that despite our best intentions of finally grasping, say, Einstein's theory of general relativity, most of us are quickly brought up short by a snarl of nasty equations or an incomprehensible graph.
Christophe Galfard's mission in life is to spread modern scientific ideas to the general public in entertaining ways. Using his considerable skills as a brilliant theoretical physicist and successful young-adult author, The Universe in Your Hand employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin everything we know about our universe. To understand what happens to a dying star, we are asked to picture ourselves floating in space in front of it. To get acquainted with the quantum world, we are shrunk to the size of an atom and then taken on a journey. Employing everyday similes and metaphors, addressing the listener directly, and writing stories rather than equations renders these astoundingly complex ideas in an immediate and visceral way.
Utterly captivating and entirely unique, The Universe in Your Hand will find its place among other classics in the field. | |||
| Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space Audiobook by Janna Levin | 29 Mar 2016 | 07:29:00 | |
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Title: Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Author: Janna Levin
Narrator: Janna Levin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-29-16
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 183 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves - by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.
From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe.
Critic Reviews:
"This is a beautifully written account of the quest to open the 'gravitational-wave window' onto our universe, and use it to explore our universe's warped side: black holes and other phenomena made from warped spacetime. As a participant in this wonderful quest, I applaud Janna Levin for capturing so well our vision, our struggles, and the ethos and spirit of our torturous route toward success." (Kip Thorne, author of
The Science of Interstellar) | |||
| Flat Earth Clues Audiobook by Mark Sargent | 23 Mar 2016 | 05:54:00 | |
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Title: Flat Earth Clues
Subtitle: The Sky's the Limit
Author: Mark Sargent
Narrator: Mark Sargent
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-23-16
Publisher: Booglez Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 43 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
The Flat Earth Clues book gives you 12 compelling reasons why you should rethink the globe model that you have been taught. Before you were born, before your parents, your grandparents, before you even had a family line. There was the illusion, the trick, the lie that you lived on a small spinning rock flying through space. You thought it was true, because children don't believe in lies. And you grew up, and it was still true, because science is never wrong....
Except for small things like lead gasoline, lead paint, DDT, cigarettes not causing cancer, and what the core of the Earth looks like. You know that fire burns, water is wet, drop something and it falls to the floor. We can all test these things. What shape is the world? That's not something you know; it's something you're told. To put it simply, you just have to take their word for it. And there's the real crux of the problem: the weight of their word. It's really about trust. Most of us trust science to some degree.
It's about proving the Earth flat, but more importantly it's about disproving the globe, and that shouldn't be possible, but there are several big questions which science has a difficult time with. Why was there only one blue marble image used for 43 years? Where are the videos of the Earth rotating from space? Astronauts can't turn around in space with the camera running? Not even by accident? Are the Van Allen radiation belts dangerous? Why does the Orion "Trial by Fire" video exist? Why was the space shuttle program cancelled? Why does the Mars mission keep getting postponed? Why are they closing down the ISS? Why is Psalm 19:1 on Werner Von Braun's headstone? Why is the moon generating a light that is sometimes 12 degrees colder than the moon shade? How is that possible if it's reflecting the sun's rays? And if the moon is generating its own light source, then what was that dark grey thing we landed on? We can beam back crystal-clear photos of Pluto, but the global positioning system doesn't track planes in the southern oceans? And why does this topic, compared to any other, conspiracy or not, make people excited, angry, or scared?
Some of you are getting anxious just reading this! Why? Because it's the greatest trick of all, and we all fell for it. You should be excited, because it's going to change the world. You should be angry, because you were fooled your entire life, and you should be a little scared, because this is uncharted territory. This is the flat Earth theory that the world is easy to understand, more intimate, and very deliberate. It didn't just happen; it was built and, more importantly, built for you. | |||
| Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Audiobook by Carlo Rovelli | 01 Mar 2016 | 01:45:00 | |
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Title: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Author: Carlo Rovelli
Narrator: Carlo Rovelli
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-01-16
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 478 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics.
In seven brief lessons, Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli guides listeners with admirable clarity through the most transformative physics breakthroughs of the 20th and 21st centuries. This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, already a major best seller in Italy, explains general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role of humans in the strange world Rovelli describes.
This is a book about the joy of discovery. It takes listeners to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds. "Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world," Rovelli writes. "And it's breathtaking." | |||
| The Feynman Imperative Audiobook by David Christopher Lane | 26 Feb 2016 | 02:11:00 | |
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Title: The Feynman Imperative
Subtitle: Why Science Works
Author: David Christopher Lane
Narrator: Steve Toner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-26-16
Publisher: MSAC Philosophy Group
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
This book consists of six distinct essays describing how science works, with special attention to how Richard Feynman viewed the scientific method. Chapter one explores the difference between evolution and mysticism's version of intelligent design. Chapter two is entitled The Feynman Imperative and explores a contentious debate over reductionism and its role in the hard sciences, particularly in explaining consciousness. Chapter three details how practical the scientific endeavor is and why science tends to avoid making dogmatic and absolute statements. Other chapters include: The Gravity of Science, Feynman's Flower (and the beauty of physics and biology), and concludes with Shiva Science which illustrates that science is composed of many avenues and not just one. Dr. Lane has taught science and religion courses at California State University, Long Beach for over a decade and is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Mt. San Antonio College where he lectures on quantum theory, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. He has also produced a number of original mini films dealing with Richard Feynman's philosophy of science. | |||
| Adventures in Science Audiobook by Andrea Diem-Lane | 01 Feb 2016 | 03:38:00 | |
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Title: Adventures in Science
Subtitle: From Quantum Thinking to Alien Encounters
Author: Andrea Diem-Lane
Narrator: Linda Velwest
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-01-16
Publisher: MSAC Philosophy Group
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
It is one of the curious oddities of our time that we talk so much about the scientific method as if it is one singular entity when, in point of practice, it is anything but. The ultimate linchpin in science is decided not by how we go about doing it, but about how well our hunches, observations, and results tally with the universe we observe and, in turn, how such intellectual lurches compare and contrast with other competing stratagems in terms of yielding more, not less, information. The very word science, derived from the Latin "scire", is rather open-ended and simply means "knowledge".
There are innumerable ways to gather knowledge about the cosmos we inhabit. What makes science so powerful is that it allows for such findings to be publicly aired and scrutinized and tested, not only with the world it is trying to understand, but with other vying alternative models which differ from each other. Perhaps science's greatest contribution is that at its best it is open to refutation and is thereby open to change. | |||
| You Are Probability Audiobook by Andrea Diem-Lane | 21 Jan 2016 | 01:30:00 | |
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Title: You Are Probability
Subtitle: Surfing the Matrix
Author: Andrea Diem-Lane
Narrator: William L. Sturdevant
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-21-16
Publisher: MSAC Philosophy Group
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
As I glance around the room, I notice that after lecturing for an hour and a 45 minutes straight on quantum theory, desultory decussation, and Wolfram's new kind of science, I see a Krispy Crème glaze descend over a few of my students' eyes. The fantastic implications of chance and necessity (to echo the title of biologist Jacques Monod's famous 1970s book) appears either to have gone over their heads or, more likely, seems of little practical consequence in their day to day lives.
I then try to draw out more clearly how understanding probability can radically alter how one views life. Imagine in this moment that you have a California Lottery "scratcher" ticket and as you systematically scratch off your numbers and their adjoining prizes, you realize in the middle of class that you have won a mega jackpot of five million dollars. What would you do? I suspect that most of my students would stand up and leave the room there and then. One thing is for sure, however: It would wake them up and give them a huge and intoxicating adrenaline rush.
The winning student might later ruminate about his or her good fortune and reflect upon how lucky they were (given the astronomical odds against them - one in 2,400,000) in securing that particular ticket.
I give this illustration to my students because a winning lottery number exponentially pales in comparison to the odds against them being alive and breathing (even if they nod off a bit here and there) at this very juncture in history. But in order to appreciate the anomaly of one's existence it is necessary to get a deeper understanding of the theory of large numbers. | |||
| Beyond Matter Audiobook by Roger Trigg | 11 Jan 2016 | 04:57:00 | |
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Title: Beyond Matter
Subtitle: Why Science Needs Metaphysics
Author: Roger Trigg
Narrator: James Killavey
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-11-16
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Does science have all the answers? Can it even deal with abstract reasoning that reaches beyond the world experienced by us? How can we be so sure that the physical world is sufficiently ordered to be intelligible to humans? How is it that mathematics, a product of human minds, can unlock the secrets of the physical universe? Are all such questions to be ruled out as inadmissible if science cannot settle them?
Metaphysics has traditionally been understood as reasoning beyond the reach of science, sometimes even claiming realities that are beyond its grasp. Because of this, metaphysics has often been contemptuously dismissed by scientists and philosophers who wish to remain within the bounds of what can be scientifically proven. Yet scientists at the frontiers of physics unwittingly engage in metaphysics, as they are now happy to contemplate whole universes that are, in principle, beyond human reach.
Roger Trigg challenges those who deny that science needs philosophical assumptions. In fact, Trigg claims that the foundations of science themselves have to lie beyond science. It takes reasoning apart from what can be experienced to discover what is not yet known and this metaphysical reasoning to imagine realities beyond what can be accessed.
The book is published by Templeton Press.
Critic Reviews:
"In Beyond Matter, Roger Trigg advances a powerful, persuasive, fair-minded argument that the sciences require a philosophical, metaphysical foundation. This is a brilliant book for new-comers to philosophy of science and experts alike." (Charles Taliaferro, professor of philosophy, St. Olaf College) | |||
| Flipnosis Audiobook by Kevin Dutton | 07 Jan 2016 | 10:05:00 | |
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Title: Flipnosis
Author: Kevin Dutton
Narrator: David Timson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-07-16
Publisher: Jammer Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
What if I were to tell you that a psychopathic arsonist might also be the person most likely to save you from a burning building?
Flipnosis is black-belt mind control. It doesn't just turn the tables; it kicks them over.
Critic Reviews:
"Hugely entertaining and extremely thought-provoking." (Richard Wiseman, author of Quirkology)
"Brilliant.... Kevin Dutton is simply a genius. I now tell his stories as if they were my own." (Andy McNab) | |||
| The Reality Myth Audiobook by Ishan Rami | 02 Nov 2015 | 03:27:00 | |
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Title: The Reality Myth
Subtitle: Unlocking the Secrets of Modern Physics & the Power of Intention While Redefining Your Place in the Universe
Author: Ishan Rami
Narrator: Gregory Shinn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-02-15
Publisher: 2nd Empire Media
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
How do you know what is real?
In his new book The Reality Myth: Unlocking the Secrets of Modern Physics & the Power of Intention While Redefining Your Place in the Universe, best-selling author Ishan Rami takes the listener on a mind-bending journey through time and space to answer that question and much more.
Inside you'll learn: | |||
| Why I Fell in Love with Monster Prime Numbers Audiobook by Adam Spencer | 14 Sep 2015 | 00:17:00 | |
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Title: Why I Fell in Love with Monster Prime Numbers
Author: Adam Spencer
Narrator: Adam Spencer
Format: Original Recording
Length: 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-14-15
Publisher: TED Talks
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
They're millions of digits long, and it takes an army of mathematicians and machines to hunt them down -- what's not to love about monster primes? Adam Spencer, comedian and lifelong math geek, shares his passion for these odd numbers, and for the mysterious magic of math. | |||
| The Quantum Rules Audiobook by Kunal K. Das | 14 Jul 2015 | 09:08:00 | |
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Title: The Quantum Rules
Subtitle: How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life
Author: Kunal K. Das
Narrator: Stephen McLaughlin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-14-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 26 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher's Summary:
Learn how quantum physics affects your daily life and learn practical ways to put that knowledge to good use! Ever feel guilty that you always seem to seek the easiest and shortest way to accomplish something? And why is it so satisfying to drive along a road hitting every green light, as if by magic? The Quantum Rules applies the laws of physics to explain everything from relationships and human nature to the effects of globalization. It achieves the impossible task of making quantum physics deeply relevant to all listeners - even those with no interest in science. With a lively and engaging tone, author Kunal Das ponders the underlying truths and patterns in our shared and common life experiences, using insights derived from the fundamental laws of physics. In The Quantum Rules, listeners will find a fresh, new perspective on the human experience and in the process effortlessly absorb some of the most important laws of physics without facing any math or dense logic. What you learn will surprise, entertain, and perhaps even shock you with its simple logic - once you've learned about the laziness clause, your life will never be the same again! | |||
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