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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Richard Matthews
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27,936 ratings
    • Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11,224 ratings
    • As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

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    • Explanations That Transform the World
    • By: David Deutsch
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 20 hrs
    • Release date: 08-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,678 ratings
    • A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....

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    • Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
    • By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,832 ratings
    • Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all....

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    • Brilliant Madman's Essay on Technology, Society, and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Ted Kaczynski
    • Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • Predicting society’s present addiction to technology, our challenges with data privacy, and the dramatic increase in drug overdoses and depression that have accompanied a technology-induced lack of purpose, The Unabomber’s vision of the future has become our reality....

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    • Science as a Candle in the Dark
    • By: Carl Sagan
    • Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
    • Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,363 ratings
    • How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....

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    • Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    • By: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57,659 ratings
    • Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....

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    • The Secret Life of the Brain
    • By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,487 ratings
    • The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology....

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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 852 ratings
    • Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

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    • A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
    • By: Sam Harris
    • Narrated by: Sam Harris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,110 ratings
    • For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....

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    • Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
    • By: Suzanne Simard
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,328 ratings
    • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....

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    • On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
    • By: Sean Carroll
    • Narrated by: Sean Carroll
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,136 ratings
    • Listeners learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level - and then how each connects to the other....

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    • The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications
    • By: David Deutsch
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 366 ratings
    • The author of the best seller The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, explores the four most fundamental strands of human knowledge: quantum physics, and the theories of knowledge, computation, and evolution - and their unexpected connections....

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    • A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
    • By: Sabine Hossenfelder
    • Narrated by: Gina Daniels
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 406 ratings
    • Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation....

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    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 441 ratings
    • For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

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    • Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
    • By: Brian Greene
    • Narrated by: Brian Greene
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,546 ratings
    • A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe....

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    • By: Sam Harris
    • Narrated by: Sam Harris
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,262 ratings
    • A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality.....

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    • Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
    • By: Stephen C. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 764 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,019 ratings
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
    • By: Richard P. Feynman
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,448 ratings
    • In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several ultimate questions of science....

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