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    • The Surrender of Culture to Technology
    • Auteur(s): Neil Postman
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Riggenbach
    • Durée: 5 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 évaluations
    • In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it....

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    • Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
    • Auteur(s): Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
    • Durée: 13 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....

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    • How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
    • Auteur(s): Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
    • Durée: 10 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - separated in age by 40 years - discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field....

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • Auteur(s): Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 14 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
    • Auteur(s): Kim TallBear
    • Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
    • Durée: 10 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • Auteur(s): Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
    • Durée: 4 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • Auteur(s): Richard L. Currier
    • Narrateur(s): Noah Michael Levine
    • Durée: 10 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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    • A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
    • Auteur(s): Jennet Conant
    • Narrateur(s): John Kroft
    • Durée: 13 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This is the untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history....

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    • A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury
    • Auteur(s): John Dvorak
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
    • Durée: 10 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Author John Dvorak looks into the early years of volcanology and its "father", Thomas Jaggar....

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    • The Science Behind the Headlines
    • Auteur(s): Richard A. Muller
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
    • Durée: 10 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times....

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    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Fannon
    • Durée: 7 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

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    • How It Explains the World
    • Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Perring
    • Durée: 8 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Size explains the regularities—and peculiarities—of the key processes shaping life (from microbes to whales), the Earth (from asteroids to volcanic eruptions), technical advances (from architecture to transportation), and societies and economies (from cities to wages)....

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    • Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Edward Dolnick
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 10 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-02-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 évaluations
    • The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine....

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    • Auteur(s): Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 12 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 évaluations
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • A Human History
    • Auteur(s): Richard Rhodes
    • Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
    • Durée: 11 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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    • A History, a Theory, a Flood
    • Auteur(s): James Gleick
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 16 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 évaluations
    • James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....

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    • How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
    • Auteur(s): Shannon Vallor
    • Narrateur(s): Kim Niemi
    • Durée: 9 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Shannon Vallor makes a wide-ranging, prophetic, and philosophical case for what AI could be: a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth, rather than lose ourselves in mirrors of the past.

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    • How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
    • Auteur(s): Sabine Hossenfelder
    • Narrateur(s): Laura Jennings
    • Durée: 8 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science....

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    • Excursions to the Edge of Thought
    • Auteur(s): Jim Holt
    • Narrateur(s): David Stifel
    • Durée: 15 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • From Jim Holt, New York Times best-selling author, comes this entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries....

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