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    • Written by: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
    • Written by: Chris Miller
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2022-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips....

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • Written by: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
    • Written by: Ben Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2020-06-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age....

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • Written by: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
    • Written by: Bruce Schneier
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2015-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In Data and Goliath, Schneier reveals the full extent of surveillance, censorship, and propaganda in society today, examining the risks of cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and cyberwar....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • Written by: P. W. Singer, Allan Friedman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2016-01-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Best-selling author P. W. Singer and noted cyberexpert Allan Friedman team up to provide the kind of deeply informative resource book that has been missing on a crucial issue of 21st-century life....

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    • The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
    • Written by: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
    • Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....

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    • Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
    • Written by: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2023-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....

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    • How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
    • Written by: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
    • Narrated by: Liza Seneca
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2023-06-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Merchants of Doubt tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades....

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    • Life and Meaning in a Solved World
    • Written by: Nick Bostrom
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Suppose we develop superintelligence safely and ethically, and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this technology would unlock. We would transition into an era in which human labor becomes obsolete.

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    • The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
    • Written by: Scott J. Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • Written by: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
    • Written by: David E. Sanger
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb....

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    • Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
    • Written by: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: James Linkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The best-selling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s....

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    • A Cybernetic History
    • Written by: Thomas Rid
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2016-06-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • As lives offline and online merge, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine....

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    • A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
    • Written by: Andy Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....

    Price: $26.22 or 1 Credit

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    • The Science Behind the Headlines
    • Written by: Richard A. Muller
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2011-06-01
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times....

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    • What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
    • Written by: Steven E. Koonin
    • Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....

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