Introducing Genetically Modified Organisms: GMO
The History, Research and the TRUTH You're Not Being Told
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Have you asked the question, "What are GMOs?"
Where did they come from?
Who creates them?
How will they affect myself and my family?
Are they dangerous?
If so, what can I do about it?
What you'll find out by listening to this audiobook:
- An objective overview of what is meant by plant genetic engineering (GMO) and an insight as to where the science and technology came from.
- An explanation (without being too "science") of how the genetic engineering of the DNA of plant species is being combined with other species, both plant and animal, to create new forms of life that are being sold to us as "food".
- Why the biotech industry is so interested in the genetics of our food supply.
- A historical journey dating back 12,000 years to the start of human agriculture.
- An introduction to the infamous flavr-savr tomato.
- A perspective of the wider economic, scientific, and philosophical issues which are intrinsic to a full understanding of the GM food issue.
We all need to understand the issues surrounding the controversial topic of GMOs for the sake of our health, our families, and the security of the food chain of our planet. Our very future may depend on it. This first volume in a five book series is the introduction you've been looking for.
Download this book today.
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- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. The vertical farm has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Brainstorming - Not reality
- De Texas Community Project en 01-25-11
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Population Wars
- A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
- De: Greg Graffin
- Narrado por: Tom Zingarelli
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 110
From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations - whether between different species or between rival groups of humans - is seen as an inevitable part of the evolutionary process. The popular concept of "the survival of the fittest" explains and often excuses these actions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Changing Book. No other like it.
- De Abraham R. Herrick-Rough en 05-16-16
De: Greg Graffin
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The Vital Question
- Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
- De: Nick Lane
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,047
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies, and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of scientists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ouch!
- De Mark en 06-24-16
De: Nick Lane
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Harmony
- A New Way of Looking at Our World
- De: Charles HRH The Prince of Wales
- Narrado por: Charles HRH The Prince of Wales
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
For the first time, HRH The Prince of Wales shares his views on how our most pressing modern challenges - from climate change to poverty - are rooted in mankind's disharmony with nature, presenting a compelling case that the solution lies in our ability to regain a balance with the world around us. With its holistic approach, this provocative and well-reasoned book takes the discussion of sustainability and climate change in a new direction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent Exploration
- De Sara en 03-31-16
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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
- De: Alex Epstein
- Narrado por: Alex Epstein
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,712
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,518
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,517
For decades environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better. How can this be? The explanation is that we usually hear only one side of the story. We're taught to think only of the negatives of fossil fuels, their risks and side effects, but not their positives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A different point of view
- De Ballofyarn en 01-12-17
De: Alex Epstein
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Fossil Future
- Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less
- De: Alex Epstein
- Narrado por: Alex Epstein
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 927
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 829
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 824
For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world’s poorest people. And contrary to what we hear from media “experts” about today’s “renewable revolution” and “climate emergency,” reality has proven Epstein right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Strongly Recommend
- De Kevin en 06-14-22
De: Alex Epstein
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What Is Life?
- How Chemistry Becomes Biology
- De: Addy Pross
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 645
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 564
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 562
Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrdinger posed a simple, yet profound, question: What is life?. How could the very existence of such extraordinary chemical systems be understood? This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists both before, and ever since. Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties, such as self-maintenance and apparently purposeful behaviour which we do not see in inert matter. So how does chemistry give rise to biology?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Profound & Life Changing...
- De Daegan Smith en 04-06-15
De: Addy Pross
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A Crack in Creation
- Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
- De: Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,367
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,169
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,168
Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR - a revolutionary new technology that she helped create - to make heritable changes in human embryos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In to the abyss we ascend, a scary future
- De Philomath en 06-17-17
De: Jennifer A. Doudna, y otros
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Organic Manifesto
- How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
- De: Maria Rodale, Eric Scholsser - foreword
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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those in power must read and work upon it.
- De Jaktip en 12-20-17
De: Maria Rodale, y otros
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How to Clone a Mammoth
- The Science of De-Extinction
- De: Beth Shapiro
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks listeners through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Readable Take on a Complex Subject
- De John en 04-26-15
De: Beth Shapiro
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Denialism
- How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
- De: Michael Specter
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter has twice won the Global Health Council’s Excellence in Media Award, as well as the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In Denialism, he fervently argues that people are turning away from new technologies and engaging in a kind of magical thinking that is hindering scientific progress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A compelling read
- De S en 05-17-11
De: Michael Specter
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Life's Engines
- How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
- De: Paul G. Falkowski
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 288
Paul Falkowski looks "under the hood" of microbes to find the engines of life, the actual working parts that do the biochemical heavy lifting for every living organism on Earth. With insight and humor, he explains how these miniature engines are built - and how they have been appropriated by and assembled like Lego sets within every creature that walks, swims, or flies. Falkowski shows how evolution works to maintain this core machinery of life, and how we and other animals are veritable conglomerations of microbes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Science Book Ever Written. Period.
- De serine en 07-28-15
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Arrival of the Fittest
- Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
- De: Andreas Wagner
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 355
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 299
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 300
In Arrival of the Fittest, renowned evolutionary biologist Andreas Wagner draws on over 15 years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Robustness makes for an interesting life and book
- De Gary en 11-29-14
De: Andreas Wagner
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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- De: David Christian
- Narrado por: Jamie Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,169
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,902
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,897
Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History", the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant achievement, must read/listen
- De 11104 en 09-05-18
De: David Christian
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia
- A Final Warning
- De: James Lovelock
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, British scientist James Lovelock predicts global warming will lead to a Hot Epoch. Lovelock is best known for formulating the controversial Gaia theory in the 1970s, with Ruth Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, which states that organisms interact with and regulate Earth's surface and atmosphere. We ignore this interaction at our peril.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A New Perspective - A Must Listen - Very Moving
- De Thomas en 01-29-12
De: James Lovelock
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Deep Truth
- Igniting the Memory of Our Origin, History, Destiny, and Fate
- De: Gregg Braden
- Narrado por: Gregg Braden
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
A new world is emerging before our eyes, while the unsustainable world of the past struggles to continue. Both worlds reflect the beliefs of our past. Both exist - but only for now. Which world do you choose? Best-selling author and visionary scientist Gregg Braden suggests that the hottest issues that divide us as families, nations, and civilizations-seemingly separate concerns such as war, terror, abortion, suicide, genocide, the death penalty, poverty, economic collapse, and nuclear war - are actually related.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Information
- De David en 08-13-12
De: Gregg Braden