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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know.
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Abridged
- By Robin on 2017-11-29
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2010-04-01
- Language: English
- A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson’s quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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Half Lives
- The Unlikely History of Radium
- Written by: Lucy Jane Santos
- Narrated by: Deirdre Whelan
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable item - a present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow-in-the-dark dance costume - to its role as a supposed cure-all in everyday 20th-century life, when medical practitioners and business people (reputable and otherwise) devised ingenious ways of commodifying the new wonder element.
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Half Lives
- The Unlikely History of Radium
- Narrated by: Deirdre Whelan
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2021-07-06
- Language: English
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Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element....
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Napoleon's Buttons
- 17 Molecules That Changed History
- Written by: Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of 17 groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible the voyages of discovery that ensued. The molecules resulted in grand feats of engineering and spurred advances in medicine and law; they determined what we now eat, drink, and wear. A change as small as the position of an atom can lead to enormous alterations in the properties of a substance.
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Should be read on paper
- By Anonymous User on 2021-05-22
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Napoleon's Buttons
- 17 Molecules That Changed History
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2011-10-10
- Language: English
- Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of 17 groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history....
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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- Written by: Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms - that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the development of better antibiotics against life-threatening diseases.
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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-06
- Language: English
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Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....
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The Canon
- A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
- Written by: Natalie Angier
- Narrated by: Nike Doukas
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and her own work as an award-winning science writer, Natalie Angier does the impossible: she makes science fascinating and seriously fun, even for those of us who, in Angier's words, "still can't tell the difference between a proton, a photon, and a moron".
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The Canon
- A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
- Narrated by: Nike Doukas
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2007-06-13
- Language: English
- Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy....
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The Philadelphia Chromosome
- A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
- Written by: Jessica Wapner
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity and determination restored the promise of a future to the more than 50,000 people diagnosed each year with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).
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The Philadelphia Chromosome
- A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-14
- Language: English
- Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines....
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- Written by: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.
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one important book
- By Jaguar on 2021-12-05
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2010-10-12
- Language: English
- A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....
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The Disappearing Spoon: Young Listeners Edition
- Written by: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, greed, betrayal, and obsession. The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon follow elements on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
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A fun, quick survey of the periodic table
- By HittsMcGee on 2021-03-29
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The Disappearing Spoon: Young Listeners Edition
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2018-04-04
- Language: English
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A young listeners edition of the New York Times best seller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table....
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Lavoisier in the Year One
- The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (The Great Discoveries Series)
- Written by: Madison Smartt Bell
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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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)
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Series: Great Discoveries
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-28
- Language: English
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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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The Secrets of Alchemy
- Written by: Lawrence M. Principe
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. By surveying what alchemy was and how it began, developed, and overlapped with a range of ideas and pursuits, Principe illuminates the practice. He vividly depicts the place of alchemy during its heyday in early modern Europe, and then explores how alchemy has fit into wider views of the cosmos and humanity.
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The Secrets of Alchemy
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-21
- Language: English
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In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture....
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The Science Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Written by: DK
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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Exploring more than 80 of the world's most scientific theories and big ideas across the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, and math, this audiobook offers a fascinating look at the history of science. All the big scientific ideas are brought to life with pithy quotes and step-by-step "mind maps" - from evolution and continental drift to black holes and genetic engineering, showing how the ideas of famous scientists have affected our understanding of the world.
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Basically a mini encyclopedia/dictionary
- By Rob on 2021-12-02
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The Science Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2019-12-06
- Language: English
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Exploring more than 80 of the world's most scientific theories and big ideas across the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, and math, this audiobook offers a fascinating look at the history of science....
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Caesar's Last Breath
- Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
- Written by: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it.
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Tour de force
- By Paul Rivard on 2020-09-20
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Caesar's Last Breath
- Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-18
- Language: English
- The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell....
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The Devil's Element
- Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
- Written by: Dan Egan
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it’s also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for billions of people.
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The Devil's Element
- Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-07
- Language: English
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Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it’s also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for billions of people....
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Symphony in C
- Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
- Written by: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still mysteries yet to be solved about the element that can be both diamond and coal. Where does it come from, what does it do, and why, above all, does life need it?
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Symphony in C
- Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-11
- Language: English
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An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity....
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Periodic Tales
- A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc
- Written by: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery. We do not know what most of them look like, how they exist in nature, how they got their names, or of what use they are to us.
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Periodic Tales
- A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2015-04-28
- Language: English
- Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination....
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A Natural History of Beer
- Written by: Ian Tattersall, Rob DeSalle
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, authors Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer. They explain how we came to drink beer, what ingredients combine to give beers their distinctive flavors, how beer's chemistry works at the molecular level, and how various societies have regulated the production and consumption of beer.
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A Natural History of Beer
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-27
- Language: English
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From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, authors Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer....
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Rocket Girl
- The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
- Written by: George D. Morgan, Ashley Stroupe
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls rarely dreamed of a career in science, Mary wanted to be a chemist. A decade later, the dreams of these two disparate individuals would coalesce in ways neither could have imagined.
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Rocket Girl
- The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2017-08-08
- Language: English
- America succeeded in launching rockets into space, but only because of the joint efforts of the brilliant farm girl from North Dakota and the famous German scientist....
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Smellosophy
- What the Nose Tells the Mind
- Written by: A.S. Barwich
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information.
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Smellosophy
- What the Nose Tells the Mind
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-14
- Language: English
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A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information....
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Elixir
- A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
- Written by: Theresa Levitt
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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For centuries, scientists believed that living matter possessed a special quality—a spirit or essence—that differentiated it from nonliving matter. But by the nineteenth century, the scientific consensus was that the building blocks of one were identical to the building blocks of the other. Elixir tells the story of two young chemists who were not convinced, and how their work rewrote the boundary between life and nonlife.
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Elixir
- A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-23
- Language: English
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For centuries, scientists believed that living matter possessed a special quality—a spirit or essence—that differentiated it from nonliving matter. But by the nineteenth century, the scientific consensus was that the building blocks of one were identical to the building blocks of the other....
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Written by: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?
As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.
It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just
during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.
This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death.
Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.-
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-14
- Language: English
- In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes....
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