DNA Diva
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Outside Looking In
- A Novel
- By: T. C. Boyle
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 204
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Story4 out of 5 stars 185
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology PhD student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
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5 out of 5 stars
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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
- By Christopher Meeks on 05-25-19
- Outside Looking In
- A Novel
- By: T. C. Boyle
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
Fantastic Narrator
Reviewed: 07-08-19
One of the best narrators from the 100s I've listened to. I usually listen to nonfiction and found this to have enough factual basis thati enjoyed the dramatization.
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Blueprint
- How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
- By: Robert Plomin
- Narrated by: Robert Plomin
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 238
In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses from birth. A century of genetic research shows that DNA differences inherited from our parents are the consistent life-long sources of our psychological individuality - the blueprint that makes us who we are. This, says Plomin, is a game-changer. It calls for a radical rethinking of what makes us who were are.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good until Plomin inserted political opinions
- By Daniel Lathen on 02-27-19
- Blueprint
- How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
- By: Robert Plomin
- Narrated by: Robert Plomin
Narcissistic author with eugenics slant
Reviewed: 05-10-19
I finished it only so that I could fairly critique the entire content of the book.
The author is an American genetics researcher at Kings College in London. He presents many studies and claims to address the ethical implications. However, he overstates the conclusions of his and other family-based and genome wide association (GWAS) studies and fails to acknowledge that his statements are not universally accepted across the genetics field.
More troubling, he omits the potential eugenics implications of his "genetics explains almost everything, including socioeconomics" (my paraphrasing; not a direct quote). He should realize that his claims could be used to support a eugenics agenda, and the onerous is on him (as a scientist) to clearly state that his results do NOT support eugenics.
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 850
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 711
In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away - until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has completely upended what we thought we knew about ourselves. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story - from 100,000 years ago to the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I wish this book was in American high schools.
- By melody sheldon on 03-31-19
- A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
Both entertaining and informative
Reviewed: 03-01-19
Adam uses wonderful analogies and has a very engaging, humorous writing (and speaking) style. As a scientist, I appreciated the details and evidence that was presented.
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