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Dirt
- The Erosion of Civilizations
- By: David R. Montgomery
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance38
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This fascinating yet disquieting audiobook finds that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are, and have long been, using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations.
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Like most books miss out African history of farming
- By Horace warmington on 05-10-23
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Dirt
- The Erosion of Civilizations
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 19-08-24
- Language: English
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How AI Will Shape Our Future
- Understand Artificial Intelligence and Stay Ahead. Machine Learning. Generative AI. Robots. Quantum AI. Super Intelligence.
- By: Pedro Uria-Recio
- Narrated by: Will Stauff
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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This audiobook will help you get ready for the changes coming in the years ahead. Listen now. Packed with expert insights, the book addresses critical questions: How will AI alter employment, education, and global geopolitics? What ethical dilemmas will arise as humans interlace with AI through cyborgs and synthetic biology? Can we prepare for superintelligence and its utopian—or dystopian—outcomes?
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A clear roadmap through the wild world of AI.
- By Maximilian Mess on 26-10-24
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How AI Will Shape Our Future
- Understand Artificial Intelligence and Stay Ahead. Machine Learning. Generative AI. Robots. Quantum AI. Super Intelligence.
- Narrated by: Will Stauff
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Imminent
- Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
- By: Luis Elizondo
- Narrated by: Luis Elizondo
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall507
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Performance469
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Luis 'Lue' Elizondo is a former senior intelligence official and special agent who was recruited into a strange and highly sensitive US Government program to investigate UAP incursions into sensitive military installations and air space. To accomplish his mission, Elizondo had to rely on decades of experience gained working some of America's most sensitive and classified programs. Even then, he was not prepared for what he would learn, and the truth about the government's long shadowy involvement in UAP investigations, and the lengths officials would take to keep them a secret.
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Fascinating look at the USA's UAP Disclosure effort
- By Anthony M. on 22-08-24
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Imminent
- Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
- Narrated by: Luis Elizondo
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 20-08-24
- Language: English
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Isle of Dogs
- My Canine Adventures Through Britain
- By: Clare Balding
- Narrated by: Clare Balding
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance23
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There's nothing the British love quite as much as their dogs. From hunting to our hearths, and from herding sheep to guiding humans, our dogs have accompanied us through centuries of change, and that special relationship is still evolving today. So, just what is it that makes our bond so special? In this fascinating adventure across Britain, Clare Balding explores our unique heritage of canine tradition and meets just some of the many people who live, work and innovate with their dogs.
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A good listen!
- By Amazon Customer on 16-05-26
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Isle of Dogs
- My Canine Adventures Through Britain
- Narrated by: Clare Balding
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 12-10-23
- Language: English
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Black Holes
- The Key to Understanding the Universe
- By: Professor Brian Cox, Professor Jeff Forshaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall97
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Performance87
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A Brief History of Time for the 21st Century At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It’s time to explore our universe’s most mysterious inhabitants Black Holes At the heart of the Milky Way lies a...
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Doesn't work as an audiobook
- By rod on 13-11-22
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Black Holes
- The Key to Understanding the Universe
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-10-22
- Language: English
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The Trainspotter's Notebook
- The unmissable book from TikTok's trainspotting sensation
- By: Francis Bourgeois
- Narrated by: Francis Bourgeois
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance59
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Brought to you by Penguin. The adventure filled memoir written and read by the world's most beloved trainspotter, TikTok sensation Francis Bourgeois. 'Thrashing builds and builds. I look down and pull up my sleeve: I've got goosebumps, making all the hairs on my arm stand on end. I'm absolutely...
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Great!!
- By Alex on 27-05-23
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The Trainspotter's Notebook
- The unmissable book from TikTok's trainspotting sensation
- Narrated by: Francis Bourgeois
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 27-10-22
- Language: English
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Nature’s Ghosts
- The world we lost and how to bring it back
- By: Sophie Yeo
- Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance14
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Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writing Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation A Times Science Book of the Year ‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham For...
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The further you go, the better it gets.
- By Tomaszek on 01-06-24
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Nature’s Ghosts
- The world we lost and how to bring it back
- Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon
- The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance26
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Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there’s no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list. Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive color. He uncovered the way gases behave. And, most significantly, he transformed the way physics was undertaken in his explanation of the interaction of electricity and magnetism, revealing the nature of light and laying the groundwork for everything from Einstein’s special relativity to modern electronics.
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Can you trust the facts?
- By Anonymous on 01-02-26
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Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon
- The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Back to Nature
- How to Love Life – and Save It
- By: Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin
- Narrated by: Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance157
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Story158
Optimistic field notes from the new normal for nature One thing has become clear this year - we need nature more than ever. And although the natural world has never been more under pressure, there are still reasons to be hopeful. Through personal stories, conservation breakthroughs and...
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Transported to a childhood world
- By Hesseawakes on 13-12-20
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Back to Nature
- How to Love Life – and Save It
- Narrated by: Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-12-20
- Language: English
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of Man's Greatest Adventure
- By: Dan Parry
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance63
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‘It didn’t matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel. All that mattered to Neil as he searched for a safe spot to land was that boulders littered the surface below. “Thirty seconds,” called mission control. In truth, the flight controllers were now no more than spectators, just like everybody else. No more needed to be said. It was down to Armstrong
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Great story
- By Caro on 22-11-12
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of Man's Greatest Adventure
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-02-11
- Language: English
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The Ship Beneath the Ice
- Sunday Times Bestseller - The Gripping Story of Finding Shackleton's Endurance
- By: Mensun Bound
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance43
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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022 On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, finally succumbed to the crushing ice...
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A superb book
- By Anonymous on 15-04-23
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The Ship Beneath the Ice
- Sunday Times Bestseller - The Gripping Story of Finding Shackleton's Endurance
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 27-10-22
- Language: English
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The Basics of Robotics
- How Machines Are Learning to Move and Think
- By: Julian Vexley
- Narrated by: April Dai
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall97
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Performance59
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Have you ever wondered how your robot vacuum avoids your coffee table or how a self-driving car knows when to stop at a red light? What about the robots that dance on stage, deliver meals, or even roam the dusty surface of Mars? These aren't just science fiction anymore—they're part of an increasingly real and evolving world: the world of robotics. Robots are everywhere, from household gadgets to space-faring explorers, from robotic pets to factory arms assembling your smartphone. We see them in the news, in our homes, in medicine, in classrooms, and on construction sites.
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Inspires STEM Education
- By Zoe Giles on 17-04-26
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The Basics of Robotics
- How Machines Are Learning to Move and Think
- Narrated by: April Dai
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 14-07-25
- Language: English
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Above the Law
- By: Adrian Bleese
- Narrated by: Adrian Bleese
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance78
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Adrian Bleese spent 12 years flying on police helicopters, and attended almost 3,000 incidents, as one of only a handful of civilian air observers working anywhere in the world. In Above the Law, he recounts the most intriguing, challenging, amusing, and downright baffling episodes in his career working for Suffolk Constabulary and the National Police Air Service. Rescuing lost walkers, chasing cars down narrow country lanes, searching for a rural cannabis factory, and disrupting an illegal forest rave…they’re all in a day’s work.
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Thoroughly enjoyable until…
- By Phil Smith on 20-02-23
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Above the Law
- Narrated by: Adrian Bleese
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-01-22
- Language: English
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Tales of the Night Sky | Greek & Roman Star Myths
- By: Bibi Jacob Geoff Chong. A Monkeybird Production
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Original audio drama with spectacular soundscapes, based on the Greco-Roman myths behind the constellations. Written and directed by Bibi Jacob, these moving and sometimes humorous tales, brim with tragedy, injustice, and violence.
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Excellent!
- By chloe stamper on 21-08-22
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Jellyfish Age Backwards
- Nature's Secrets to Longevity
- By: Nicklas Brendborg, Elizabeth de Noma - translator
- Narrated by: Joe Leat
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance94
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Refreshingly clear' Sunday Times 'A hugely enjoyable slice of popular science' Daily Mail __________ A journey into the astonishing nature and true science of longevity. Molecular biologist Nicklas Brendborg takes...
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Faultless,
- By Sigrin on 02-12-22
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Jellyfish Age Backwards
- Nature's Secrets to Longevity
- Narrated by: Joe Leat
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 26-05-22
- Language: English
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Global Crisis
- War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
- By: Geoffrey Parker
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 48 hrs and 44 mins
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Performance13
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Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.
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And ecological view of history
- By professor robin matthews on 17-09-23
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Global Crisis
- War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 48 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-12-22
- Language: English
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Beneath the Surface
- Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
- By: John Hargrove, Howard Chua-Eoan
- Narrated by: John Hargrove
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall130
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Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld’s U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their...
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ESSENTIAL READING FOR THIS TOPIC
- By Frankimunk on 06-01-16
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Beneath the Surface
- Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
- Narrated by: John Hargrove
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 24-03-15
- Language: English
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Dark Summit
- The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
- By: Nick Heil
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Overall322
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Performance270
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In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall's death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter.
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Utterly full of journo speak
- By Rose on 11-02-19
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Dark Summit
- The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 20-08-08
- Language: English
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The Quantum Rules
- How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life
- By: Kunal K. Das
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Performance25
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The Quantum Rules applies the laws of physics to explain everything from relationships and human nature to the effects of globalization. It achieves the impossible task of making quantum physics deeply relevant to all listeners - even those with no interest in science. With a lively and engaging tone, author Kunal Das ponders the underlying truths and patterns in our shared and common life experiences, using insights derived from the fundamental laws of physics.
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Insightful
- By amazoncustomer on 23-09-22
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The Quantum Rules
- How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-07-15
- Language: English
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What Is Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
- Understanding the Universe’s Invisible Stuff
- By: Lucan Merrian
- Narrated by: Michael Bridges
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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Performance55
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Imagine you’re trying to build the biggest, most awesome LEGO castle ever. You gather all your colorful bricks—the reds, blues, yellows, and greens. You plan your design, start stacking the bricks, and build towers, walls, gates, and secret tunnels. Everything’s going great. But suddenly, something odd starts to happen. Parts of your castle stick together more tightly than they should. Some towers refuse to fall over, no matter how much you poke them. And even stranger, the whole play area you’re building on starts stretching.
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Science Wonder
- By Stephanie Waters on 06-05-26
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What Is Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
- Understanding the Universe’s Invisible Stuff
- Narrated by: Michael Bridges
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-08-25
- Language: English
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