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Men, Machines, and Modern Times
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Auteur(s): Elting E. Morison
- Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
- Durée: 8 h et 2 min
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This 50th anniversary edition of Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a positive alternative to an Orwellian 1984, offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society by such change, and society's reaction to that change.
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
- Durée: 8 h et 2 min
- Date de publication: 2016-08-05
- Langue: Anglais
- This book offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society....
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Unbound
- 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
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Narrateur(s): Noah Michael Levine
- Durée: 10 h et 36 min
- Date de publication: 2015-11-23
- Langue: Anglais
- 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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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- Auteur(s): Brian Christian
- Narrateur(s): Brian Christian
- Durée: 13 h et 33 min
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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. Algorithms decide bail and parole - and appear to assess black and white defendants differently. We can no longer assume that our mortgage application, or even our medical tests, will be seen by human eyes. And autonomous vehicles on our streets can injure or kill.
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Great insight into how machines learn
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-12-01
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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- Narrateur(s): Brian Christian
- Durée: 13 h et 33 min
- Date de publication: 2020-10-06
- Langue: Anglais
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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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The Youngest Science
- Notes of a Medicine Watcher
- Auteur(s): Lewis Thomas
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 8 h et 25 min
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In this partially autobiographical work, best-selling author Lewis Thomas offers insights on subjects as wide-ranging as gender differences, how it feels to be a patient, human vs. computer intelligence, the future of cancer research, and the longevity of the planet—interspersing all with charming anecdotes about his family, his colleagues and himself.
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The Youngest Science
- Notes of a Medicine Watcher
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 8 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2011-08-01
- Langue: Anglais
- In this partially autobiographical work, best-selling author Lewis Thomas offers insights on subjects as wide-ranging as gender differences, how it feels to be a patient, human vs. computer intelligence....
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Out of My Later Years
- The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
- Auteur(s): Albert Einstein
- Narrateur(s): Henry Leyva
- Durée: 8 h et 28 min
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An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian. Divided by subject matter - “Science,” “Convictions and Beliefs,” “Public Affairs,” etc. - these essays consider everything from the need for a “supranational” governing body to control war in the atomic age, to freedom in research and education, to Jewish history and Zionism, to explanations of the physics and scientific thought that brought him world recognition.
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Out of My Later Years
- The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
- Narrateur(s): Henry Leyva
- Durée: 8 h et 28 min
- Date de publication: 2013-03-07
- Langue: Anglais
- An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian....
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Out of the Shadow of a Giant
- Hooke, Halley and the Birth of Science
- Auteur(s): John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
- Narrateur(s): John Curless
- Durée: 12 h et 22 min
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Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society. Although Newton is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and the father of the English Scientific Revolution, John and Mary Gribbin uncover the fascinating story of Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose scientific achievements neatly embrace the hundred years or so during which science as we know it became established.
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Out of the Shadow of a Giant
- Hooke, Halley and the Birth of Science
- Narrateur(s): John Curless
- Durée: 12 h et 22 min
- Date de publication: 2017-10-24
- Langue: Anglais
- What if Newton had never lived? A compelling dual biography argues that Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley easily could have filled the giant's shoes....
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Tuxedo Park
- 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
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In the late 1930s, legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th century at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
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Tuxedo Park
- A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
- Narrateur(s): John Kroft
- Durée: 13 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2018-09-25
- Langue: Anglais
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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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Stealing Fire
- How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
- Auteur(s): Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
- Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
- Durée: 8 h et 24 min
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The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving, in this groundbreaking book in the vein of Daniel Pink's Drive and Charles Duhigg's Smarter Faster Better.
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This is by far the best non-fiction book I have read to date
- Écrit par James le 2018-12-08
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Stealing Fire
- How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
- Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
- Durée: 8 h et 24 min
- Date de publication: 2017-02-21
- Langue: Anglais
- The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....
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The Last Stargazers
- The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
- Auteur(s): Emily Levesque
- Narrateur(s): Janet Metzger
- Durée: 11 h et 20 min
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Humans from the earliest civilizations were spellbound by the night sky - craning their necks each night, they used the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange world around them. Stargazing is a pursuit that continues to fascinate us: from Copernicus to Carl Sagan, astronomers throughout history have spent their lives trying to answer the biggest questions in the universe. Now, award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque shares the stories of modern-day stargazers.
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Food for the soul
- Écrit par Rob St.George le 2020-10-12
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The Last Stargazers
- The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
- Narrateur(s): Janet Metzger
- Durée: 11 h et 20 min
- Date de publication: 2020-08-04
- Langue: Anglais
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Humans from the earliest civilizations were spellbound by the night sky - craning their necks each night, they used the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange world around them. Stargazing is a pursuit that continues to fascinate us....
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
- Narrateur(s): Tim Fannon
- Durée: 7 h et 56 min
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The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most digestible book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI.
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Narrateur(s): Tim Fannon
- Durée: 7 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2023-07-11
- Langue: Anglais
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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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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Auteur(s): James Gleick
- Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
- Durée: 16 h et 37 min
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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 - the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born.
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So, hear me out...
- Écrit par Quenton le 2019-09-26
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
- Durée: 16 h et 37 min
- Date de publication: 2011-03-01
- Langue: Anglais
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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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The Shallows
- What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- Auteur(s): Nicholas Carr
- Narrateur(s): Richard Powers
- Durée: 10 h et 6 min
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Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, The Shallows explains how the internet is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher. A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
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Didn't need to be a book
- Écrit par Steve le 2020-09-14
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The Shallows
- What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- Narrateur(s): Richard Powers
- Durée: 10 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2010-06-10
- Langue: Anglais
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A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds....
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No Shadow of a Doubt
- The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- Auteur(s): Daniel Kennefick
- Narrateur(s): L.J. Ganser
- Durée: 13 h et 41 min
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In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to "weigh light" by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has been clouded by myth and skepticism.
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No Shadow of a Doubt
- The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- Narrateur(s): L.J. Ganser
- Durée: 13 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2019-04-30
- Langue: Anglais
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In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity....
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Tesla
- Inventor of the Modern
- Auteur(s): Richard Munson
- Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
- Durée: 9 h et 10 min
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Nikola Tesla, a Serbian immigrant, invented the radio, the induction motor, the neon lamp, and the remote control. Tesla's personal life was magnificently bizarre. Strikingly handsome and impeccably dressed, he was germophobic and never shook hands. He required nine napkins when he sat down to dinner. In later years, he ate only white food and conversed with the pigeons in Bryant Park. This clear, authoritative, and highly enjoyable biography takes account of all phases of this remarkable life.
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Tesla
- Inventor of the Modern
- Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
- Durée: 9 h et 10 min
- Date de publication: 2018-06-19
- Langue: Anglais
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Nikola Tesla, a Serbian immigrant, invented the radio, the induction motor, the neon lamp, and the remote control. Tesla's personal life was magnificently bizarre. This clear, authoritative, and highly enjoyable biography takes account of all phases of this remarkable life....
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Understanding Beliefs
- Auteur(s): Nils J. Nilsson
- Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
- Durée: 2 h et 46 min
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Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs as well. We use beliefs to predict, to explain, to create, to console, to entertain. Some of our beliefs we call theories, and we are extraordinarily creative at constructing them. Theories of quantum mechanics, evolution, and relativity are examples.
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Understanding Beliefs
- Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
- Durée: 2 h et 46 min
- Date de publication: 2015-08-25
- Langue: Anglais
- Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future....
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Wish I Were Here
- Boredom and the Interface
- Auteur(s): Mark Kingwell
- Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
- Durée: 5 h et 58 min
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Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Offering a timely meditation on the profound effects of constant immersion in technology, also known as the Interface, Wish I Were Here draws on philosophical analysis of boredom and happiness to examine the pressing issues such as screen addiction....
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Wish I Were Here
- Boredom and the Interface
- Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
- Durée: 5 h et 58 min
- Date de publication: 2019-04-30
- Langue: Anglais
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Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for....
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Lavoisier in the Year One
- The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (The Great Discoveries Series)
- Auteur(s): Madison Smartt Bell
- Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
- Durée: 5 h et 48 min
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Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative comes across like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry—a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin—also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.
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Lavoisier in the Year One
- The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (The Great Discoveries Series)
- Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
- Série: Great Discoveries
- Durée: 5 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2022-06-28
- Langue: Anglais
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Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists....
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Longitude
- The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- Auteur(s): Dava Sobel
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Durée: 4 h et 20 min
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In 1714, England's Parliament offered a huge reward to anyone whose method of measuring longitude could be proven successful. The scientific establishment--from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton--had mapped the heavens in its certainty of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution--a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had been able to do on land. And the race was on....
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Longitude
- The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Durée: 4 h et 20 min
- Date de publication: 2009-03-30
- Langue: Anglais
- An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd....
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The Book of Eels
- Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
- Auteur(s): Patrik Svensson
- Narrateur(s): Alex Wyndham
- Durée: 6 h et 25 min
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Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the “eel question”: Where do eels come from? What are they? Are they fish or some other kind of creature altogether? Even in our age of advanced science, no one has ever seen eels mating or giving birth, and we still don’t understand what drives them, after living for decades in freshwater, to swim great distances back to the ocean at the end of their lives. They remain a mystery.
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not for animal lovers
- Écrit par Becky le 2024-02-03
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The Book of Eels
- Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
- Narrateur(s): Alex Wyndham
- Durée: 6 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2020-05-26
- Langue: Anglais
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Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish - the eel - and a reflection on the human condition....
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The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- Auteur(s): Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Narrateur(s): Nicholas Camm
- Durée: 11 h et 56 min
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Histoire
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann.
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The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- Narrateur(s): Nicholas Camm
- Durée: 11 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2022-02-22
- Langue: Anglais
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The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....
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