
The Spinning Magnet
The Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It
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Alanna Mitchell
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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.
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Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can’t answer that question here on Earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien life on other worlds? The question hangs over some of society’s most charged conflicts - whether a fertilized egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead.
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What is Life?
- De Shane S Shull en 04-29-21
De: Carl Zimmer
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"Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself"
- The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945
- De: Florian Huber
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left but disgrace and despair. For tens of thousands of them, the only option was to choose death - for themselves and for their children.
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This book should be required reading for anyone that seeks to understand how ordinary people could be transformed into monsters.
- De Anonymous User en 05-08-20
De: Florian Huber
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Mirrors in the Earth
- Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World
- De: Asia Suler
- Narrado por: Asia Suler
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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A nature therapy session for the soul—encounter the benevolence of the living world through 12 essays on the Earth-healing powers of self-compassion and empathy.
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amazing feel good book!
- De April en 04-01-25
De: Asia Suler
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Power Metal
- The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
- De: Vince Beiser
- Narrado por: Vince Beiser
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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Vince Beiser explores the Achilles’ heel of “green power” and digital technology–that manufacturing computers, cell phones, electric cars, and other technologies demand skyrocketing amounts of lithium, copper, cobalt, and other materials. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. Beiser crisscrossed the world to talk to the people involved and report on the damage this race is inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and how we can minimize the damage.
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Misleading title
- De O. D. S en 11-21-24
De: Vince Beiser
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The Strange Order of Things
- Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
- De: Antonio Damasio
- Narrado por: Steve West, Antonio Damasio
- Duración: 9 h
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The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms.
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Homeostasis and Metabolism give self awareness
- De Gary en 03-22-18
De: Antonio Damasio
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Fundamentals
- Ten Keys to Reality
- De: Frank Wilczek
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Frank Wilczek
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the 10 profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world.
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Is this for kindergarteners?
- De James S. en 01-24-21
De: Frank Wilczek
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The Universe in a Box
- Simulations and the Quest to Code the Cosmos
- De: Andrew Pontzen
- Narrado por: Andrew Pontzen
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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In The Universe in a Box, cosmologist Andrew Pontzen explains how physicists model the universe’s most exotic phenomena, from black holes and colliding galaxies to dark matter and quantum entanglement, enabling them to study the evolution of virtual worlds and to shed new light on our reality.
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makes me wanna specialize in weak emergence and simulations
- De Logan Jones en 06-17-24
De: Andrew Pontzen
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The World in a Grain
- The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
- De: Vince Beiser
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other - even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. And, incredibly, we're running out of it. The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it - and sometimes, even kill for it.
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History given is only reason it gets 2 stars.
- De Dennis en 07-23-19
De: Vince Beiser
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Orwell's Roses
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Rebecca Solnit
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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“In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell’s life journeys through his writing and his actions.
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Absolutely Awful!
- De asdf en 04-06-22
De: Rebecca Solnit
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Galileo's Error
- Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
- De: Philip Goff
- Narrado por: Maxwell Caulfield
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra", beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if we persist in our standard scientific methods, our questions about consciousness will eventually be answered. And some suggest that the mystery is so deep, it will never be solved.
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Good but basic
- De ginger en 01-23-20
De: Philip Goff
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Move Like Water
- My Story of the Sea
- De: Hannah Stowe
- Narrado por: Anna Rust
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide’s edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that she and so many others have been drawn to life at sea—and what might the water around us be able to teach us?
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Every sentence is so beautiful
- De Raleigh en 11-16-23
De: Hannah Stowe
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Where the Water Goes
- Life and Death Along the Colorado River
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes listeners on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the US-Mexico border where the river runs dry.
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Water issues are never about only water.
- De Bonny en 08-20-17
De: David Owen
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Super Fly
- The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects
- De: Jonathan Balcombe
- Narrado por: Jonathan Balcombe
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue to reshape our understanding of evolution.
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Wonderful
- De Chris en 02-13-22
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Survival of the Friendliest
- Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
- De: Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness. For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened?
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Good but Unfortunate
- De Dee Faram en 09-07-20
De: Brian Hare, y otros
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Masala Lab
- The Science of Indian Cooking
- De: Krish Ashok
- Narrado por: Ashish Bhandari
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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Masala Lab by Krish Ashok is a science nerd's exploration of Indian cooking with the ultimate aim of making the listener a better cook and turning the kitchen into a joyful, creative playground for culinary experimentation. Just like memorizing an equation might have helped you pass an exam but not become a chemist, following a recipe without knowing its rationale can be a sub-optimal way of learning how to cook.
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Learned a lot!
- De Sharon S. Dorondo en 12-21-22
De: Krish Ashok
quite interesting take on our modern electronics world 🌎 and how we are influenced by the Suns 🌞 energy
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Learned quite a bit, narrated nicely...
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informative in an engaging way! 😎
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I only wish there was a companion PDF to download as many of the initial descriptions of how the physics work would be better absorbed with illustrations to accompany the descriptions.
Great read. Makes a complex field comprehensible.
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A lot of physics for non-physicists.
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Attractive presentation technical aspects arcane subject
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A great book about our magnetic earth
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Earth poles switching
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Pleasantly Surprised
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Important topic, not what I was looking for
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