Showing results by narrator "David A. Wood" in All Categories

Already technology enables parents to select some genetic traits for their children, and soon it will be possible to begin to shape ourselves as a species. Countering loud cries of alarm, bioethics expert Ronald Green explains why our fears about genetic engineering are overblown and how we can move forward responsibly to create a better future.

The singularity is the emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI), and the associated transformation of the human condition. Spoiler alert: That transformation will be profound. Despite the importance of the concept of the singularity, the subject receives nothing like the attention it deserves. This book seeks to dispel the confusion, to untangle the distortions, to highlight practical steps forward, and to attract much more serious attention to the singularity. The future of humanity is at stake.

Darfur, Sudan. 2009. Two doctors employed by NGOs stumble across a strange metallic cylinder, which has been embedded for perhaps millions of years in desert rock. Mystified by the object, they gather four of the world’s leading experts in science and technology a computer scientist, a physicist, a biochemist, and a genetic researcher and head to London to study it thoroughly. The six have barely begun running tests on the cylinder, when they suddenly disappear telling family members not to go looking for them.

Years ago, Gideon and Gaby were a hot item, before her true love - her Blue Moon restaurant - monopolized her time. But now her wheeler-dealer fiancé, Roy Emerson, is refusing to take a simple medical test and she wants Gideon to find out why. Fired up by his misfortunes and a strong desire to protect Gaby, Gideon begins an investigation into Roy’s background that stretches from Key West to the Wild West - Wyoming. And the results are explosive.

Machen Sie sich manchmal Gedanken darüber, was ein gutes Leben ausmacht? Seien Sie dabei in einer Gesprächsrunde aus Mitgliedern des Spotlight-Teams und deren Sicht auf diese uralte Frage. Ebenfalls in dieser Spotlight Audio Ausgabe 12/2023: Eine Reise von den pulsierenden Straßen in Cape Town zum malerischen Cape Winelands und in das atemberaubende Kap-Florenreich. In English at Work erfahren Sie, wie Sie in beruflichen Telefonaten eine fröhliche und optimistische Ausstrahlung vermitteln.

In dieser Sonderausgabe von Spotlight Audio gibt es 60 Minuten Texte, Dialoge und Übungen zu wichtigen Redewendungen, mit denen Sie Ihr Verständnis und Ihre Sprechfertigkeit in Englisch verbessern können. Finden Sie die richtigen Worte für einen guten ersten - oder zweiten - Eindruck im Kapitel über Begrüßung und Small Talk. Beim Thema Gesundheit lernen Sie Ausdrücke über Ihr Wohlbefinden. Und schließlich können Sie mit dem englischen Vokabular im Kapitel "Gemeinsam Essen" einen Restaurantbesuch und ein Essen zu Hause mit Freunden und Familie richtig genießen.

Entdecken Sie in der Ausgabe 10/2022 von "Spotlight Audio" einige wirklich magische Orte in Großbritannien. In "A Day in My Life" lernen Sie eine Perückenmacherin kennen und sehen ihre Wunderwerke. Um beim Thema Wandel zu bleiben - könnte ein Ausflug zu einem geheimnisvollen Leuchtturm eine Frau wieder auf den rechten Weg bringen? Erfahren Sie mehr in der Kurzgeschichte. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio“.

In "Business Spotlight Audio" 05/2022 für Mai hören Sie Artikel und Interviews aus der Welt des Business-Englisch. Mit Übungen verbessern Sie Ihre sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen. Ein Unternehmer berichtet, wie er aus Fehlern gelernt hat. Es geht um die Frage, ob künstliche Intelligenz Gleichheit fördert, und Sie bekommen Tipps, wie Kommunikation effizienter wird. "Skill Up" befasst sich mit dem Thema "Landwirtschaft".

In "Business Spotlight Audio 04/2022" für März hören Sie Artikel und Interviews aus der Welt des Business-Englisch. Mit Übungen verbessern Sie Ihre sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen. Es wird die Frage diskutiert, ob Elon Musk Vorbild oder Risiko ist. Sie erhalten Einblick in die weltweite Papierknappheit und in die Situation berufstätiger Frauen in der Türkei. Sie bekommen Tipps, wie Sie eine Sitzung gut vorbereiten und wie Sie als Führungskraft Loyalität zeigen.

Numerous newspaper and magazine articles have talked about it, and now this riveting book, We All Wore Blue, is the true account of a youth soccer team in Washington state that transformed over several seasons into a team comprised largely of immigrants from around the globe, representing a myriad of different countries, most races, and major religions. The story tells how these immigrant boys and families bonded with the middle-class White kids and their families, coming together and dealing with numerous challenges, great adversity, and racism.

The Age of Ideas provides that knowledge. It takes the listener on an incredible journey into a world of self-discovery, personal fulfillment, and modern entrepreneurship. The book starts by explaining how the world has shifted into this new paradigm and then outlines a step-by-step framework to turn your inner purpose and ideas into an empowered existence.

The purpose of Soul Survivor is to tell the real life story of Joe Townsend, who was flying one day with his family, and due to mechanical failure, the small plane he was piloting crashed - killing Joe’s wife and two small daughters. Joe was critically injured and survived brain injury, a stroke, hours of surgery, and months of physical and emotional pain to survive and then to thrive. Through grit and determination, he then began to rebuild a new life. This inspirational real-life tale of overcoming adversity will get people to realize their own true potential.

Key West P.I. Gideon Lowry is no longer drowning his sorrow in rum these days. He's just drowning, and in desperate need of a lifesaver. Enter Katy Morgan of a local escort service, just the woman to see him through another lonely night. But by the morning after, it's Katy who hits rock bottom - her body is found on the kitchen floor of her trailer, way beyond anyone's help. The gruesome discovery plunges Gideon into a quarter-million-dollar mystery.

Gideon Lowry is playing his weekly piano gig at a quiet hotel, fighting his daily urge for a drink. That's where Asia finds him. She's trying to find her estranged husband, who's lost in the reverie surrounding his obsession: Hemingway. But Asia doesn't want him back, she wants a divorce. As the Hemingway festival builds to its crescendo, mainland violence pays a nasty visit. There's an evil dancing behind the carefree facades of Duval Street, and it will take every sun-bitten ounce of Gideon's Conch resolve to reel it in...

A political thrill ride as current as today's headlines. President-elect Maggie Mathews - the first woman voted into the nation's highest office - is felled by a ruptured brain aneurysm just 10 days before her inauguration. While she lies in a coma, her vice president-elect attempts to conceal his past, and with help from chief of staff Bruce "Skeeter" Jamison, he gambles he can keep his dark secret from coming to light.

A Washington, D.C., socialite, traveling in the western United States, meets an old friend, and finds herself startled to learn that his current occupation is a long way from what it was when he was in D.C.