Creating Places - The Podcast Transcripts
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 36
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Disappointing - Too Simple.
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
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A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history.
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The Monkey's Voyage
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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How did species wind up where they are today? Scientists have long conjectured that plants and animals dispersed throughout the world by drifting on large landmasses as they broke up, but in The Monkey’s Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz offers a radical new theory that displaces this passive view.
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4 out of 5 stars
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- Narrated by: Mark Sargent
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything All at Once
- How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
- By: Bill Nye
- Narrated by: Bill Nye
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,199
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,115
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,109
Everything All at Once is an exciting, inspiring call to unleash the power of the nerd mindset that exists within us all. Nye believes we'll never be able to tackle our society's biggest, most complex problems if we don't even know how to solve the small ones. Step by step, he shows his listeners the key tools behind his everything-all-at-once approach: radical curiosity, a deep desire for a better future, and a willingness to take the actions needed to make it a reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Thing Bill Nye Has Ever Done!
- By jtimothyk on 10-07-17
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
- Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Revised and Updated
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- Narrated by: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 34
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,438
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,916
A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- By Dubi on 09-02-14
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The Monkey's Voyage
- How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
- By: Alan de Queiroz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4 out of 5 stars 40
How did species wind up where they are today? Scientists have long conjectured that plants and animals dispersed throughout the world by drifting on large landmasses as they broke up, but in The Monkey’s Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz offers a radical new theory that displaces this passive view.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating, if you can handle the detail
- By Mary-Liz on 03-05-14
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Escaping the Rabbit Hole
- How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect
- By: Mick West
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Author Mick West shares over a decade's worth of knowledge and experience investigating and debunking false conspiracy theories through his forum, MetaBunk.org, and sets forth a practical guide to helping friends and loved ones recognize these theories for what they really are. West puts his debunking techniques and best practices to the test with four of the most popular false conspiracy theories today (chemtrails, 9/11 controlled demolition, false flags, and flat Earth) - providing road maps to help you to understand your friend and help them escape the rabbit hole.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderfully woke!
- By Katie Mc on 11-20-18
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story5 out of 5 stars 57
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 Christopher white on 05-25-17
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Dark Age America
- Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
- By: John Michael Greer
- Narrated by: Michael Dowd
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 88
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion. What is the world going to look like when all these changes have run their course? Author John Michael Greer seeks to answer this question, and with some degree of accuracy, since civilizations tend to collapse in remarkably similar ways.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A projection in to a future with less
- By Philomath on 03-26-17
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience
- A Personal View of the Search for God
- By: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan - editor
- Narrated by: Adrienne C. Moore, Ann Druyan
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story5 out of 5 stars 81
The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sagan's lectures about the possibility of God
- By David T. on 11-13-17
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Keepers of the Garden
- By: Dolores Cannon
- Narrated by: Jane Sellers, Titus Stone
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,535
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,359
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,361
A young man wanting to explore past-life regression discovers this is his first lifetime on Earth. All his other existences were on alien worlds and in other dimensions. As this unique case is explored further, he finds out that his association with extraterrestrials did not cease with these other lives. The interaction with UFOs and aliens has continued during all his present life, although the information was protectively hidden by his subconscious.
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4 out of 5 stars
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fabulous content, distracting narration
- By Critical Reader on 08-08-15
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The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia Volume 2: The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts
- Trivia Bill's General Knowledge
- By: Bill O'Neill
- Narrated by: Rob Maxwell
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Facts. The world just seems to revolve around them, and you never know for sure where they will lead you next. From discovering who actually invented glue, to what various words or names mean, the whole world would be a more boring place if it were not for different facts. Perhaps you wish that you had some of those nuggets of information at your own disposal. Our encyclopedia is crammed full of those small pieces of information that will suddenly make the world seem like a more logical place to live.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Adventure in Trivia.
- By cosmitron on 03-16-18
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Sly Flourish's The Lazy Dungeon Master
- By: Michael E. Shea
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 387
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 330
You love Dungeons and Dragons. As an experienced dungeon master, you've run dozens, if not hundreds of games. You put a lot of work into making your games great. What if there's another way to look at how you prepare your game? What if it turned out you could spend less time and less energy and have a better game as a result? It's time to unleash the Lazy Dungeon Master.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Helpful tips for Dungeon Masters
- By Goblin Town on 05-02-16
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The Magic of Reality
- How We Know What's Really True
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,891
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,646
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,627
Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, science book examining some of the nature’s most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective. Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world. Before we developed the scientific method, we created rich mythologies to explain the unknown. The pressing questions that primitive men and women asked are the same ones we ask as children. Who was the first person? What is the sun? Why is there night and day?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audio version is superb for us grown-ups
- By Michael Dowd on 10-10-11
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Some Remarks
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 166
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 144
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Story4 out of 5 stars 146
One of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned for his exceptional novels - works colossal in vision and mind-boggling in complexity. Exploring and blending a diversity of topics, including technology, economics, history, science, pop culture, and philosophy, his books are the products of a keen and adventurous intellect. Stephenson ponders a wealth of subjects, from movies and politics to David Foster Wallace and the Midwestern American College Town; and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth a revisit
- By Duncan on 08-09-12
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A Most Improbable Journey
- A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
- By: Walter Alvarez
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4 out of 5 stars 24
Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. Geologist Walter Alvarez - best known for his Impact Theory explaining dinosaur extinction - makes a compelling case for a new, science-first approach to Big History.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned so much
- By Nancy on 12-09-18
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 959
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 583
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 583
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa (the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster) was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event which has only very recently become properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round the world for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great subject, great writing, great voice
- By rwise on 01-26-04
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Beyond Infinity
- An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
- By: Eugenia Cheng
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In Beyond Infinity, musician, chef, and mathematician Eugenia Cheng takes listeners on a startling journey from math at its most elemental to its loftiest abstractions. Beginning with the classic thought experiment of Hilbert's hotel - the place where you can (almost) always find a room, if you don't mind being moved from room to room over the course of the night - she explores the wild and woolly world of the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overflowing With Needless Examples & Anecdotes
- By Richard on 04-22-17
Publisher's Summary
Learning to create a unique, immersive place one podcast episode at a time.
World building strategist Randy Ellefson turned his successful book series, The Art of World Building, into a popular podcast of the same name, with episodes loosely drawn from each book in the series. Listeners who want a copy, or those who want more details than what’s in volume two, can now benefit from these transcriptions. Creating Places - The Podcast Transcripts; The Art of World Building, Book 5 includes 16 episodes that interweave content from across the series.
While covering much of the same material as volume two, Ellefson breaks out in new directions while expanding on how to invent planets, continents, sovereign powers, settlements, history, maps, and more. He also teaches experts and beginners alike how latitude, prevailing winds, and mountains affect climate and where vegetation grows. Learn how long it takes to travel over different terrain types and conditions by horse, wagon, sailing vessels, or even dragons.
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