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A World Without Humans
- Pros & Cons of Our Eventual Extinction
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- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
If you're a person who wants to know the secrets of humankind, nature, and evolution, then you're about to discover how to increase sensitivity to the problems of our planet right now!
In fact, if you want to know how to get answers to these great life's questions, then this new audiobook A World without Humans: Pros & Cons of Our Eventual Extinction - gives you the answers to 20 important questions and challenges every person faces, including:
- How will Our Extinction affect Earth's evolution?
- Will Earth be a happier place where to live for other animals?
- Will nature perceive our extinction?
- Is there a date for our extinction?
- And more!
If you're serious about increase sensitivity to the problems of our planet and you really want to know the answers to these great life's questions, then you need to get a copy of A World without Humans: Pros & Cons of Our Eventual Extinction right now.
Humankind expert, John Break, will reveal to you how every person, regardless of experience level, can learn more about this crisis - today!
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- Silvia English
- 01-19-20
This audible provides a great way of instructions
Scientists are now turning to their own methods to determine what the world would look like without humans.
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- Sebastian Maldonado
- 01-19-20
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Some depictions have cities crumbling, skyscrapers eventually succumbing to nature and gravity. Others see it as a wasteland,
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- Abigail Key
- 01-19-20
I would highly recommended to listen this book.
At first I thought the lecturer tone was too complicated but eventually I grew to like and enjoy it.
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- Lupe Ferguson
- 01-19-20
This audible will enable you to unhesitatingly.
This is an extremely informative summary of the Pros & Cons of Our Eventual Extinction and evolution of the types of minerals found on Earth and farther afield.
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- Alec Church
- 01-19-20
It is one of the best audible!
For a number of reasons natural and human people have evacuated or otherwise abandoned many places around the world.
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- Taylor Bradshaw
- 01-19-20
I got many conductive ideas from this audible.
Most of the world will be covered in vegetation. Places like Dubai and Las Vegas will be covered in sand.
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- Rudy Ewing
- 01-19-20
I am exceptionally happy with this audio book.
The world would be no better off without humans. It would be immeasurably worse off without humans.
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- Minerva Fuentes
- 01-19-20
I was so much interested to learn about this book
A very interesting and technical subject, made to seem simple by concise and straight to the point..
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- Antoine Beard
- 01-19-20
I think this book is the best book of the topic
The expansion of the human race has impacted the diversity of animal species in all corners of the world.
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- Antoine Beard
- 01-19-20
I really appreciate this audible
Without humans around in the first place, animals like elephants would still roam parts of northern europe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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To The Stars
- By Judy on 12-31-19
By: Carl Sagan
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Earth in Human Hands
- Shaping Our Planet's Future
- By: David Grinspoon
- Narrated by: David Grinspoon
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story5 out of 5 stars 72
NASA Astrobiologist and renowned scientist Dr. David Grinspoon brings listeners an optimistic message about humanity's future in the face of climate change. For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: Humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made - up until this point, inadvertently - to the planet. And our current behavior threatens not only our own future but that of countless other creatures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful listen.
- By Britt on 05-25-17
By: David Grinspoon
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Deep Truth
- Igniting the Memory of Our Origin, History, Destiny, and Fate
- By: Gregg Braden
- Narrated by: Gregg Braden
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 117
A new world is emerging before our eyes, while the unsustainable world of the past struggles to continue. Both worlds reflect the beliefs of our past. Both exist - but only for now. Which world do you choose? Best-selling author and visionary scientist Gregg Braden suggests that the hottest issues that divide us as families, nations, and civilizations-seemingly separate concerns such as war, terror, abortion, suicide, genocide, the death penalty, poverty, economic collapse, and nuclear war - are actually related.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Information
- By David on 08-13-12
By: Gregg Braden
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On the Future
- Prospects for Humanity
- By: Martin Rees
- Narrated by: Martin Rees, Samuel West
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 128
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes - good and bad - are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, renowned scientist and best-selling author Martin Rees argues that humanity’s prospects depend on our taking a very different approach to planning for tomorrow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Science, the future, and great wisdom
- By Philomath on 10-29-18
By: Martin Rees
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Here on Earth
- By: Tim Flannery
- Narrated by: Tim Flannery
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
Tim Flannery’s first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrous effects on many of the Earth’s ecosystems and could lead to our downfall. But equally, Flannery argues, we are now equipped as never before to explore our true relationship with the planet on which our biological, economic and cultural futures depend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Next Jared Diamond
- By Michael Dowd on 08-19-11
By: Tim Flannery
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia
- A Final Warning
- By: James Lovelock
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, British scientist James Lovelock predicts global warming will lead to a Hot Epoch. Lovelock is best known for formulating the controversial Gaia theory in the 1970s, with Ruth Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, which states that organisms interact with and regulate Earth's surface and atmosphere. We ignore this interaction at our peril.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A New Perspective - A Must Listen - Very Moving
- By Thomas on 01-29-12
By: James Lovelock
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Billions & Billions
- Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 469
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 469
In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming century?
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3 out of 5 stars
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To The Stars
- By Judy on 12-31-19
By: Carl Sagan
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Reality Check
- How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
- By: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrated by: Darren Stephens
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Donald R. Prothero explains the scientific process and why society has come to rely on science not only to provide a better life but also to reach verifiable truths no other method can obtain. He describes how major scientific ideas that are accepted by the entire scientific community (evolution, anthropogenic global warming, vaccination, the HIV cause of AIDS, and others) have been attacked with totally unscientific arguments and methods.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reality Check is sure to piss you off
- By Sandra on 09-12-14
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Timefulness
- How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
- By: Marcia Bjornerud
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. Our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us, and our habits will in turn have consequences that will outlast us by generations. Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narration was so bad I put it aside
- By 11104 on 10-13-18
By: Marcia Bjornerud
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The Contact Paradox
- Challenging our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- By: Keith Cooper
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
In 1974 a message was beamed towards the stars by the giant Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a brief blast of radio waves designed to alert extraterrestrial civilizations to our existence. Of course, we don't know if such civilizations really exist. But for the past six decades a small cadre of researchers have been on a quest to find out, as part of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring, so really boring
- By Amazon Customer on 11-16-20
By: Keith Cooper
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- By: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,501
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,190
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,177
An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it - the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- By Ricky on 03-17-19
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End Times
- A Brief Guide to the End of the World
- By: Bryan Walsh
- Narrated by: Bryan Walsh, Corey Carthew
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable - and inevitable - end of humankind. From asteroids and artificial intelligence to volcanic supereruption to nuclear war, veteran science reporter and TIME editor Bryan Walsh provides a stunning panoramic view of the most catastrophic threats to the human race.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Important topic ruined by needless political blather
- By J. Gordon on 08-29-19
By: Bryan Walsh
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4 out of 5 stars 94
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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is how we'll do it...
- By Bryant on 06-24-15
By: Annalee Newitz
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The Precipice
- Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
- By: Toby Ord
- Narrated by: Toby Ord
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 598
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 496
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 495
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The 80000hours website is better
- By Cristi on 08-06-20
By: Toby Ord
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Why Darwin Matters
- The Case for Evolution and Against Intelligent Design
- By: Michael Shermer
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 104
Columnist and publisher Michael Shermer, once an evangelical Christian and a creationist, argues that Intelligent Design proponents invoke a combination of ad science, political antipathy, and flawed theology in their new brand of creationism. He refutes their pseudoscientific arguments and then demonstrates why conservatives and people of faith can and should embrace evolution. Why Darwin Matters is an incisive examination of what is at stake in the debate over evolution.
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1 out of 5 stars
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TOTAL MISREPRENTATION: WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE?
- By Theo Tsourdalakis on 09-04-11
By: Michael Shermer
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Starry Messenger
- Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,068
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,741
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,714
In a time of political and cultural polarization, Tyson provides a much-needed antidote to so much of what divides us, while making a passionate case for the twin chariots of enlightenment—a cosmic perspective and the rationality of science. Starry Messenger walks us through the scientific palette that sees and paints the world differently. From insights on resolving global conflict to reminders of how precious it is to be alive, Tyson reveals an array of brilliant and beautiful truths that apply to us all, enlightened by knowledge of our place in the universe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Optimistic
- By Anonymous on 09-23-22
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Aliens
- The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
- By: Jim Al-Khalili
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Bruce Mann, Katharine Lee McEwan, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 128