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Now You're Cooking

Catching Fire

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Richard Wrangham

"[A] fascinating study...Wrangham's lucid, accessible treatise ranges across nutritional science, Paleontology and studies of ape behavior and hunter-gatherer societies; the result is a tour de force of natural history and a profound analysis of cooking's role in daily life." (Publishers Weekly)

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Catching Fire

By Richard Wrangham

Narrated by Kevin Pariseau

Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution.

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6 hours and 45 min.

Information Lives...Forever

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Delete

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Viktor Mayer-Schonberger

Delete

By Viktor Mayer-Schonberger

Narrated by Dennis Holland

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when.

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7 hours and 33 min.

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volume 13

By Richard P. Feynman

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For more than 30 years, Richard P. Feynman's three-volume Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as the classic resource for students and professionals alike. Ranging from the most basic principles of Newtonian physics through such formidable theories as Einstein's general relativity, superconductivity, and quantum mechanics, Feynman's lectures stand as a monument of clear exposition and deep insight.

LECTURE
5 hours and 44 min.

4.754.754.754.754.75 4.75 (12 ratings)

The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volume 13

Richard P. Feynman

The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volume 4

By Richard P. Feynman

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LECTURE
5 hours and 44 min.

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volume 4

Richard P. Feynman

Why Evolution Is True

By Jerry A. Coyne

Narrated by Victor Bevine

Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design", there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned: the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection.

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10 hours and 12 min.

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Why Evolution Is True

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Jerry A. Coyne

The Modern Scholar: Astronomy I

By James Kaler

The heart of this course examines the planets themselves, and reveals how they are constructed and how they differ from one another. By studying the physical astronomy of all the planets in the Solar System, we can attempt to understand their true nature. Ultimately, these lectures will bring us to a greater understanding of the Solar System's creation, which brings us again back to the beginning and what it means to us as we look outward from our rotating Earth.

LECTURE
7 hours and 46 min.

4.644.644.644.644.64 4.64 (14 ratings)

The Modern Scholar: Astronomy I

James Kaler

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Blink

By Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell

In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, in the blink of an eye, that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept?

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7 hours and 43 min.

Blink

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Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point

By Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell

In The Tipping Point, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in society happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point.

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8 hours and 38 min.

The Tipping Point

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Malcolm Gladwell

The Omnivore's Dilemma

By Michael Pollan

Narrated by Scott Brick

"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance.

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15 hours and 58 min.

The Omnivore's Dilemma

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Michael Pollan

The Greatest Show on Earth

By Richard Dawkins

Narrated by Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument". Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics.

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14 hours and 39 min.

The Greatest Show on Earth

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Richard Dawkins

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Science News, November 21, 2009

Narrated by Mark Moran

Turn to Science News for the latest coverage of biology, astronomy, the physical sciences, behavioral sciences, math and computers, chemistry, and earth science. This 75-year-old publication is known for its sharp writing and up-to-date coverage of the latest scientific research. Since its debut in 1922, Science News has been committed to providing reports on scientific and technical developments that the layman would find interesting and easy to digest.

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52 min.

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Theories of the Universe

By Stephen Hawking

Narrated by Julian Lopez-Morillas

The theoretical physicist shares his thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology.

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2 hours and 50 min.

Theories of the Universe

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Stephen Hawking

Religion and Science

By Bertrand Russell

Narrated by David Case

In Religion and Science (1961), Bertrand Russell's popular polemic against religious dogma, he covers the ground from demonology to quantum physics, yet concedes that science cannot touch the profound feelings of personal religious experience.

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2 hours and 15 min.

Religion and Science

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Bertrand Russell

Relativity

By Albert Einstein

Narrated by Julian Lopez-Morillas

Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective which had overturned theoretical physics. Einstein's genius was to express this perspective in understandable terms.