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Atlas of AI
- Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Kate Crawford
- Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth, to the labor pulled from low-wage information workers, to the data taken from every action and expression. This book reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequity.
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A fascinating and thought provoking examination of
- By Tom Dawkins on 03-13-23
- Atlas of AI
- Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Kate Crawford
- Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
The side of AI that isn’t talked about. Very important reading.
Reviewed: 09-26-24
This book was eye-opening and really shines a light into the gapping abyss that there is between our use of technology and everything that has to happen for this technology to be widely available.
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Eating to Extinction
- The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
- By: Dan Saladino
- Narrated by: Dan Saladino
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly 6,000 different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these - rice, wheat, and corn - now provide 50 percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still.
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Must read
- By Morgan German on 10-06-22
- Eating to Extinction
- The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
- By: Dan Saladino
- Narrated by: Dan Saladino
A necessary read
Reviewed: 06-30-23
I found this book so important for everyone to read. A crossroads of flavors, culture, fear, and hope it reminds us of our place in a systemic world, and shines a light on how our intellect has created systems, so simplified by our own difficulty to hold multiple truths in our brains, that we might be driving our own extinction. Don’t fret, there is plenty of hope, and of people doing the right things to help us all start building in a different direction, and creating more resilient, and diverse alternatives.
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) (Third Edition)
- Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
- By: Elliot Aronson, Carol Tavris
- Narrated by: Carol Tavris
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification.
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A great book turned into a political rant...
- By Lisa on 03-26-21
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) (Third Edition)
- Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
- By: Elliot Aronson, Carol Tavris
- Narrated by: Carol Tavris
Must read!
Reviewed: 02-24-23
So interesting and so important to understand this part of our psychology and behavior as humans. It should be required reading.
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The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Everything we now know about the universe - from the behavior of quarks to the birth of galaxies - has come from people who've been willing to ponder the unanswerable. And with the advent of modern science, great minds have turned to testing and experimentation rather than mere thought as a way of grappling with some of the universe's most vexing dilemmas. So what is our latest picture of some of the most inexplicable features of the universe? What still remains to be uncovered and explored by today's scientists?
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"The Universe is in us!"
- By Kristi R. on 01-05-15
Very interesting for an intermediate physics enthu
Reviewed: 04-15-15
Siast. Clear, fun to listen to, it poses interesting and difficult questions and gives you enough information for you to ponder on the possible answers.
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The Last Hunter - Descent
- Antarktos Saga, Book 1
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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"I've been told that the entire continent of Antarctica groaned at the moment of my birth. The howl tore across glaciers, over mountains and deep into the ice. Everyone says so. Except for my father; all he heard was Mother's sobs. Not of pain, but of joy, so he says. Other than that, the only verifiable fact about the day I was born is that an iceberg the size of Los Angeles broke free from the ice shelf a few miles off the coast."
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Ready to sit on the edge of your chair???
- By Gary on 12-15-11
- The Last Hunter - Descent
- Antarktos Saga, Book 1
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Too much of an origin story
Reviewed: 04-15-15
As much as I like sagas, this story felt incomplete. Fun and creative yet lacking depth. It was hard for me to feel for the character. Still it's a nice way to spend an afternoon.
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work.
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You'll never look at public shaming the same way
- By Megan Gunter on 04-02-15
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
A must read for whomever is active online
Reviewed: 04-11-15
A great point of view on the evils of mob mentality and a way to reflect on the part that each of us plays on the process of shaming someone without any context. A very important book for the times that we live in.
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
- By: Meg Medina
- Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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"Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass." That’s what some girl tells Piddy Sanchez one morning before school. Too bad Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui Delgado is, let alone what she’s done to piss her off. All Piddy knows is that Yaqui hates her - and she better watch her back because Yaqui isn’t kidding. At first Piddy just focuses on trying to find out more about the father she’s never met and how to balance honors courses with her job at the neighborhood hair salon. But as the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui starts to take over Piddy’s life.
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I loved this book so, much I couldn't put it down
- By sam on 04-23-19
- Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
- By: Meg Medina
- Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
Good read for teens
Reviewed: 03-27-15
I liked it but at times it turned a little preachy. I really enjoyed the part where Piedad starts transforming into her mother's worst nightmare but I thought if she got out of it too soon, perhaps a little bit more of the darkness could've been explored. Still it might be helpful for kids in that same situation. I missed knowing a little bit more about Jackie too, And wonder what life was going to be for her in the world. Still it was entertaining and a different take on the experience of being Latino in the United States.
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