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- The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
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Leading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies to enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic limbs, and the rest of us to manipulate computers and other objects through thought alone. These fiercely competitive scientists are vying for Defense Department and venture capital funding, prestige, and great wealth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Refreshingly not pop-neuro or pseudoscience
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Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? Why do you duck your head when you drive into an underground parking garage? Why are your kids so enthralled by video games? The answers to these questions can be found in a new understanding of how your brain interacts with your body, the space around your body, and the social world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This explains alot
- By Michael on 10-18-07
By: Sandra Blakeslee, and others
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Life on the Edge
- The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
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- Narrated by: Pete Cross
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Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: Nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation?
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3 out of 5 stars
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More woo than new
- By Gary on 09-09-15
By: Johnjoe McFadden, and others
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Creation
- How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself
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- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 42
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What is life? Humans have been asking this question for thousands of years. But as technology has advanced and our understanding of biology has deepened, the answer has evolved. For decades, scientists have been exploring the limits of nature by modifying and manipulating DNA, cells, and whole organisms to create new ones that could never have previously existed on their own.
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The Goldilocks book on what is life
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Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Science's best-kept secret is that there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. If history is any precedent, we should look to today's inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet 13 modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrow's breakthroughs.
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10 interesting chapters-read epiloge first
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This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia tells the extraordinary story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this a year ago, very handy info
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 553
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 422
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At once elegant and riveting, Sync tells the story of the dawn of a new science. Steven Strogatz, a leading mathematician in the fields of chaos and complexity theory, explains how enormous systems can synchronize themselves, from the electrons in a superconductor to the pacemaker cells in our hearts. He shows that although these phenomena might seem unrelated on the surface, at a deeper level there is a connection, forged by the unifying power of mathematics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging, but maybe better suited for non-audio
- By Ryan on 05-26-12
By: Steven Strogatz
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Life’s Ratchet
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 443
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The cells in our bodies consist of molecules, made up of the same carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms found in air and rocks. But molecules, such as water and sugar, are not alive. So how do our cells - assemblies of otherwise "dead" molecules - come to life, and together constitute a living being? In Life’s Ratchet, physicist Peter M. Hoffmann locates the answer to this age-old question at the nanoscale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For biologists to learn single molecule biophysics
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A Little History of the World
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,945
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E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.
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5 out of 5 stars
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an enlightening book; very well read
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The Lives of a Cell
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In The Lives of a Cell, Dr. Lewis Thomas opens up to the listener a universe of knowledge and perception that is perhaps not wholly unfamiliar to the research scientist; but the world he explores is also one of men and women, of complex interrelationships, old ironies, peculiar powers, and intricate languages that give identity to the alienated and direction to the dependent. This remarkable work offers a subtle, bold vision of humankind and the world around us - a sense of what gives life - from a writer who seems to draw grace and strength from the very substance of his subject.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So enlightening and enjoyable!
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Life Unfolding
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Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of identical twins not identical? How did my brain learn to learn? Why must I die? Questions like these remain biology's deepest and most ancient challenges. They force us to confront a fundamental biological problem: How can something as large and complex as a human body organize itself from the simplicity of a fertilized egg?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Biology ; Distracting Narration
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How to Speak Science
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 192
As smartphones, supercomputers, supercolliders, and AI propel us into an ever more unfamiliar future, How to Speak Science takes us on a rollicking historical tour of the greatest discoveries and ideas that make today's cutting-edge technologies possible. Wanting everyone to be able to "speak" science, YouTube science guru Bruce Benamran explains - as accessibly and wittily as in his acclaimed videos - the fundamental ideas of the physical world: matter, life, the solar system, light, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, special and general relativity, and much more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wowzers!
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The Accidental Mind
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 321
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 211
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You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones... to which this book says: Pure nonsense.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best general-public Brain Science book to date
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Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
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The question of how falling cats land on their feet has intrigued humans since at least the middle of the 19th century. In this playful and eye-opening history, physicist, and cat parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to understand the cat-righting reflex have provided crucial insights into puzzles in mathematics, geophysics, neuroscience, and human space exploration....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book. poor playback.
- By Luis on 03-26-21
By: Gregory J. Gbur
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Frequencies for the Future!
- By Audrey Moorehead on 10-21-20
By: Carolyn McMakin, and others
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PEMF-The Fifth Element of Health
- Learn Why Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) Therapy Supercharges Your Health Like Nothing Else!
- By: Bryant A. Meyers
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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You probably know that food, water, sunlight, and oxygen are required for life, but there is a fifth element of health that is equally vital and often overlooked: The Earth's magnetic field and its corresponding PEMFs (pulsed electromagnetic fields). The two main components of Earth's PEMFs, the Schumann and Geomagnetic frequencies, are so essential that NASA and the Russian space program equip their spacecrafts with devices that replicate these frequencies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Advanced Science, Advanced Health
- By Troy on 09-18-15
By: Bryant A. Meyers
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Understanding the Brain
- By: Jeanette Norden, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jeanette Norden
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Considering everything the brain does, how can it possibly be the source of our personalities, dreams, thoughts, sensations, utterances, and movements? Understanding the Brain, a 36-lecture course by award-winning Professor Jeanette Norden of Vanderbilt University, takes you inside this astonishingly complex organ and shows you how it works. With its combination of neurology, biology, and psychology, this course helps you understand how we perceive the world through our senses, how we move, how we learn and remember, and how emotions affect our thoughts and actions.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This is essentially a scam
- By George H. on 05-23-19
By: Jeanette Norden, and others
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- Anonymous User
- 01-10-22
The best book on electricity.
If you like good story telling and a good walk through electric history then this is the book for you. The way the author is thorough in his explanations of our modern understanding of this electro-magnetic phenomenon is unmatched. I especially liked the way he ties the early experiments and experimentors together in such a way that the big picture comes into HD focus. Don't take my word for it take his. p.s. the narration is amazing
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- aaron
- 12-27-21
This book is OUTSTANDING
This book pleasantly surprised me. It's a popular science book about a subject I never knew could be so fascinating. The stories the author weaves throughout the narrative are compelling and relevant. This is definitely a top-5 science books of the year!
Narrator is excellent.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-19-22
Great history and futurecast
I knew nothing about the subject, but enjoyed the book. I learned a lot. I think that both the beginner and the advanced would enjoy the information in this book.
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