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The Higgs Boson and Beyond
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Publisher's Summary
The discovery of the Higgs boson is a triumph of modern physics. The hunt for the Higgs was the subject of wide media attention due to the cost of the project, the complexity of the experiment, and the importance of its result. And, when it was announced with great fanfare in 2012 that physicists has succeeded in creating and identifying this all-important new particle, the discovery was celebrated around the world.
And yet, virtually no one who read that news could tell you what, exactly, the Higgs boson was, and why its discovery was so important that we had to spend 10 billion dollars and build the single largest and most complex device in the history of mankind in order to find it. When you understand the details, this story ranks as one of the most thrilling in the history of modern science.
Award-winning theoretical physicist Sean Carroll, a brilliant researcher as well as a gifted speaker who excels in explaining scientific concepts to the public, is perfectly positioned to tell this story. In this 12-lecture masterpiece of scientific reporting, you'll learn everything you need to know to fully grasp the significance of this discovery, including the basics of quantum mechanics; the four forces that comprise the Standard Model of particle physics; how these forces are transmitted by fields and particles; and the importance of symmetry in physics.
You also get an in-depth view of the Large Hadron Collider - the largest machine ever built, and the device responsible for finally revealing the concept of the Higgs boson as reality. By the end, you'll understand how the Higgs boson verifies the final piece in the Standard Model of particle physics, and how its discovery validates and deepens our understanding of the universe.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Jon Dahl
- 03-12-15
Very well done
Sean Carroll gives a great summary about the history and discovery of the Higgs boson. The depth of which he explains is really good for those with some knowledge about particle physics, but you don't need to know too much about the subject and still not get lost in all the details.
I recommend listening to "Particle Physics for Non-Phycisists: A Tour of the Microcosmos" before diving in to this one. It gives a lot of good background information about the elementary particles as well as the different forces. "The Higgs Boson..." goes in some depth into the weak force, and I would say it is crucial to have some knowledge in this field before starting the lecture.
Sean Carroll is really experienced and great at giving these lectures. I also recommend "Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time" by Sean Carroll.
What are you waiting for? Give it a go!
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- Digitalmonster
- 06-18-15
Fascinating audiobook
I just finished listening for the third time and each time I enjoy it and understand the concepts involved a little more. This is a perfect supplement to the great courses audiobook "particle physics for non physicists"
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- Jerome Robbins
- 02-25-15
Masterfully done
This lecturer provides sufficient background to make comprehensible a very arcane body of knowledge based on.complex mathematics while only alluding to the math and not requiring the listener to get lost in those details.
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- Frank
- 06-27-15
Challenging material
This was good but was difficult for me to keep up with as an amateur. The description read like the other science courses but was significantly more challenging.
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- Marc
- 04-29-15
Passion for particles - dark matter is for WIMPs!
Would you consider the audio edition of The Higgs Boson and Beyond to be better than the print version?
Not having access to the printed version of this book I tend to assume that the printed version is far better - since the sheer amount of particle names, boson names, subliconistic farwongle names and terms or expressions for names of things that haven't been named in some memorizable scheme just blows a poor listener's mind.
That said, the printed version most likely lacks the passion and personal involvement Mr. Carroll brings to the stew, so I may still prefer the audio book ...
Who was your favorite character and why?
Strange question for a book on quantum physics, but, since you ask, my favorite actually isn't the Higgs (that'd be far too easy), but the WIMPs.
You don't know what WIMPs are? Well ... listen to this book/lecture, here you have a good reason.
What about Professor Sean Carroll’s performance did you like?
I really prefer lectures by those who were or are personally involved in what they talk about to sessions with spider-web covered, dust-settled old figures who never ever seem to have seen the light of day but learned what they pretend to know from books that someone else had read to them.
Mr. Carroll is a good example of this (the positive): He's "been there". He loves his topic, he wants his audience to get, at least, a glimpse of what those CERN-egg-heads are excited about. He tries hard (and, for me, succeeds) in giving an insight into what modern physics believe to be somewhat near to may be closely related to a thing one might call, for lack of better terms, truth-affine. At parts.
Any additional comments?
Although Mr. Carroll, after having explained that "particles" in the current world-view of physics really are waves or "ripples in wave fields", if I may put it that way, falls back to the more "classic" use of "particles" as something grasp-able, for me personally the image of interfering fields with waves, ripples in interactions is, by far, better understandable, especially when talking about the interactions of the different particle types. So, having this "image" in my back head, I was able to follow even those parts of the lectures where some illustrations might really have made understanding a lot easier ...
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- 07-01-15
Higgs or physics review?
Too much scientific detail for the general audience, in what was essentially a review
of the history of particle physics and less about the Higgs itself until the later chapters, which could have been enlarged and focused on. I liked the descriptions of the LHC itself.
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- Ivan B. Ahlert
- 05-13-15
A book for people curious to learn about the Higgs
Any additional comments?
The topic is itself very interesting and timely in view of the recent confirmation of the discovery of the Higgs Boson, and the story is very well narrated. I am sure that other readers with an interest in particle physics will also enjoy this book. One minor downside is that – as in practically any of the many other books on physics for non-physicists that I have read so far (I am an engineer) – there are passages were I got lost in the explanations. I also missed more explanations as to how exactly the Higgs field interacts with certain particles to give them mass, and whether this field is uniformly spread across the universe and along time, which sounds strange, but which otherwise would result in particles acquiring different masses in different places or times.
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- Adam
- 03-26-15
outstanding
My only complaint is that this course is shorter than most others in this series. It is so well done. I was utterly addicted from start to finish.
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- Kitty
- 04-05-18
Mind = Blown
As a layman I found that most of this went completely over my head but it is presented very well and very, very interesting. I think I will have to go back to a bit more of a "physics for dummies" type course and come back and listen to this again when I have a better grasp of the basics.
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- Guilherme
- 05-08-15
Too good to be so short
After I had listened to this book I realised how much particle physics is dumbed down for the general public. I've read or listened to at least 5 books on the subject and none even mentioned that particles are actually vibrations on a field.
There is a lot of content crammed into these lectures but the techer is great and I highly recommend it.
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- Gary Cooper
- 03-04-15
Answers the "so what" about the Higgs Boson
I'd previous read Lee's book about the discovery of the Higgs Boson - "the Particle at the end of the Universe" and this course compliments it brilliantly.
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- Miakatt
- 03-14-16
Enlightening
Even after completing a PhD in experimental physics at CERN, including courses in field theory and the standard model, I found this lecture series explained the subject so well that it was like watching a very complicated jigsaw coming together. Brilliantly explained.
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- Disco
- 04-05-19
Dive in, it's great!
I'm very much an average Joe when it comes to these things. I didn't study physics after the age of 16 and my maths reports weren't, er, glowing. I've read a few popular science books.
So, would I, with the best will in the world, understand this? Well, no lot all of it...but a good deal of it, and I thoroughly enjoyed being taken on this amazing journey.
Prof Carroll has a soothing purr of a voice. He manages to sound very relaxed while also speaking with great precision. He often repeats an idea over a few sentences which, for me, is great.
It gives your brain time to take it in. He explanations are very clear.
In summary, if you're a bit worried that this might be more than you can chew (as I was) just dive in.
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- Roger Marlow
- 06-22-16
Beyond the usual pop science treatment
I had almost given up on popular expositions of modern physics: clichéd, patronising and hackneyed. This course could not be more different. What a joy to hear an expert in full flow, in full command of the subject and not glossing, skipping over difficult concepts or resorting to feeble analogies. You feel as if he is speaking to you as a peer, as someone who is designing detectors at CERN or working with the standard model. I will be listening again and learning as much the second time round.
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- Denis Rono
- 02-20-19
Not for the layman.
I thought the lecturer breezed over deep concepts which made the whole thing hard to understand. I would not recommend this to anyone that does not have a good grasp of particle physics.
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- D B.
- 09-02-18
Cutting edge knowledge brought to the non-physicist
I have rarely encountered such mastery of the teaching profession as displayed by this gentleman in his explanation of cutting edge quantum physics and cosmology. As a non-physicist I have learnt more from this course than I have listening to books supplied by Audible on this subject over the last five years.
Admittedly towards the end of the course some of the concepts are difficult to grasp, but if played two or three times as I did, you come to realise that it’s not that far out of your reach
I would highly recommend this course to anyone who has a basic knowledge of quantum physics but is not a physicist per se. The use of basic analogies to bring even the most difficult of concepts down to the level of understanding of the layman, is a common theme throughout this course, and the way it is done is that supreme skill of this gentleman.
All in all I thoroughly enjoyed this course and will be looking for more on this subject matter.
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- M. A. B. Chaudry
- 09-14-17
a level above popular science
this is a fantastic course but it shouldn't be your first course in particle physics. I highly recommend the great courses particle physics course as a prerequisite to this course (I forgot the name but there is one major course). this course is a level above popular science and also the great courses physics series. if that is what you are after you won't be disappointed. it's fascinating to understand a little more about the theory and also more of the logistics of these particle physics breakthroughs.
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- MR. MATTHEW J GUMBLEY
- 02-12-23
Another superb physics course
Excellent, will have to repeat it with the course notes to hand. Gets very deep in places, but I was expecting that!
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- NellieF
- 08-22-22
Excellent exposition of particle physics
The speaker was as good as could be making the subject somewhatintelligible to a motivated non-scientist
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- Stefan Wawrzyniak
- 05-01-21
Worth a price
Really good insight into the subject of particles and / or its fields with superb interesting related facts. one of the best which I have found on here
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- Anonymous User
- 09-18-20
Awesome content, engaging.
Information dense, engaging and well delivered. I don't know how you could deliver this content in a way that is easier to grasp, but occasionally I wanted to hear more analogies or references with which to relate. The topic is extremely interesting and Sean Carroll's knowledge and enthusiasm are contagious!
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- Ryan
- 06-30-16
pretty serious listening!
good content and well delivered, it gets pretty overwhelming at times, certainly harder to follow than other similar great courses lectures
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- Kazablanka
- 04-22-20
Kazablanka
Fascinating, and very well told, breaking down complex issues into (usually) simplistically terms. I won't claim to have fully understood everything, and even after redoing some chapters I am still struggling with concepts like symmetry. But there were lots of aha moments, when a light bulb suddenly went off, and those were truly exciting!
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- Anonymous User
- 05-09-19
Fantastic!
Enjoyable, intriguing , well read and researched. Sean has a fantastic mind and is a great teacher! Recommended for anyone with an interest in this field.
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Great book, terrible audio wanted to ask a refund
- By Srikanth Ramanujam on 11-15-18
By: Marty Cagan
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The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality
- By: Don Lincoln, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Don Lincoln
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,595
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,417
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,415
At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory of relativity. He was trying to find an equation that explained all physical reality - a theory of everything. Experimental physicist and award-winning educator Dr. Don Lincoln takes you on this exciting journey in The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality. Suitable for the intellectually curious at all levels and assuming no background beyond basic high-school math, these 24 half-hour lectures cover recent developments at the forefront of particle physics and cosmology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible’s Best Science Offering, A Gem
- By MikeB on 12-08-18
By: Don Lincoln, and others
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Gut
- The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
- By: Giulia Enders
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,533
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,958
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,915
Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain, yet we know very little about how it works. Gut: The Inside Story is an entertaining, informative tour of the digestive system from the moment we raise a tasty morsel to our lips until the moment our body surrenders the remnants to the toilet bowl. No topic is too lowly for the author's wonder and admiration, from the careful choreography of breaking wind to the precise internal communication required for a cleansing vomit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Doctors opinion
- By KevinMcVeigh on 03-02-17
By: Giulia Enders
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Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime
- By: Benjamin Schumacher, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Benjamin Schumacher
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 669
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 587
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Story5 out of 5 stars 585
Gravity controls everything from the falling of an apple to the rising of ocean’s tides to the motions of the heavens above. If you’ve ever wondered how this most puzzling force works across our entire universe, you will be delighted by this 24-part course that is accessible to any curious person, regardless of your science education. No other product on the market presents the subject of gravity in as much detail as this course, which will follow the past 400 years of research and experimentation in the field.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good freshman high school lecture
- By Ron A. Parsons on 01-29-19
By: Benjamin Schumacher, and others
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Napoleon's Hemorrhoids…And Other Small Events That Changed History
- By: Phil Mason
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 919
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 816
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Story4 out of 5 stars 811
Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoids is a potpourri for serious historians and casual history buffs. In one of Phil Mason's many revelations, you'll learn that Communist jets were two minutes away from opening fire on American planes during the Cuban missile crisis, when they had to turn back as they were running out of fuel. You'll discover that before the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon's painful hemorrhoids prevented him from mounting his horse to survey the battlefield.
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3 out of 5 stars
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They just throw the facts too fast
- By Concerned_llama on 12-11-20
By: Phil Mason
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The Selfish Gene
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,770
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,424
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,349
Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands to rethink their beliefs about life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than print!
- By J. D. May on 07-31-12
By: Richard Dawkins
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Inspired
- How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Second Edition
- By: Marty Cagan
- Narrated by: Marty Cagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,538
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,074
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,048
How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently from the vast majority of tech companies. In Inspired, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides listeners with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, terrible audio wanted to ask a refund
- By Srikanth Ramanujam on 11-15-18
By: Marty Cagan
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The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality
- By: Don Lincoln, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Don Lincoln
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,595
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,417
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,415
At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory of relativity. He was trying to find an equation that explained all physical reality - a theory of everything. Experimental physicist and award-winning educator Dr. Don Lincoln takes you on this exciting journey in The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality. Suitable for the intellectually curious at all levels and assuming no background beyond basic high-school math, these 24 half-hour lectures cover recent developments at the forefront of particle physics and cosmology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible’s Best Science Offering, A Gem
- By MikeB on 12-08-18
By: Don Lincoln, and others
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Gut
- The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
- By: Giulia Enders
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,533
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,958
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,915
Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain, yet we know very little about how it works. Gut: The Inside Story is an entertaining, informative tour of the digestive system from the moment we raise a tasty morsel to our lips until the moment our body surrenders the remnants to the toilet bowl. No topic is too lowly for the author's wonder and admiration, from the careful choreography of breaking wind to the precise internal communication required for a cleansing vomit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Doctors opinion
- By KevinMcVeigh on 03-02-17
By: Giulia Enders
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Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime
- By: Benjamin Schumacher, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Benjamin Schumacher
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 669
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 587
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Story5 out of 5 stars 585
Gravity controls everything from the falling of an apple to the rising of ocean’s tides to the motions of the heavens above. If you’ve ever wondered how this most puzzling force works across our entire universe, you will be delighted by this 24-part course that is accessible to any curious person, regardless of your science education. No other product on the market presents the subject of gravity in as much detail as this course, which will follow the past 400 years of research and experimentation in the field.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good freshman high school lecture
- By Ron A. Parsons on 01-29-19
By: Benjamin Schumacher, and others
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The Science of Sci-Fi
- From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel
- By: Erin Macdonald, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Erin Macdonald
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,095
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,011
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,984
Science fiction allows us to go places we can only dream of seeing - other worlds, distant stars, entirely different galaxies. While not every story is concerned with the hard science behind space travel and other futuristic ventures, fiction can give us amazing insight into what we could be capable of and what we dream of doing. In these 10 lectures, Professor Erin Macdonald interweaves real science and the achievements of the imagination to reveal the truth that underlies our favorite stories and sheds light on what the future may hold.
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3 out of 5 stars
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surfing the surface
- By scarlet on 01-13-20
By: Erin Macdonald, and others
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,755
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,124
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,107
Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing to physicians & lay persons alike
- By C. White on 03-08-19
By: Thomas Hager
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Chemistry and Our Universe
- How It All Works
- By: Ron B. Davis, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Ron B. Davis
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 483
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 378
Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works is your in-depth introduction to this vital field, taught through 60 engaging half-hour lectures that are suitable for any background or none at all. Covering a year’s worth of introductory general chemistry at the college level, plus intriguing topics that are rarely discussed in the classroom, this amazingly comprehensive course requires nothing more advanced than high-school math. Your guide is Professor Ron B. Davis, Jr., a research chemist and award-winning teacher at Georgetown University.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Professor, Hard to Follow.
- By Jen on 05-14-19
By: Ron B. Davis, and others
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Naked Statistics
- Stripping the Dread from the Data
- By: Charles Wheelan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,402
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,887
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,871
From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you'll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Starts well then becomes non-Audible
- By Michael on 09-07-13
By: Charles Wheelan
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Thermodynamics: Four Laws That Move the Universe
- By: Jeffrey C. Grossman, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jeffrey C. Grossman
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 421
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 357
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 356
Nothing has had a more profound impact on the development of modern civilization than thermodynamics. Thermodynamic processes are at the heart of everything that involves heat, energy, and work, making an understanding of the subject indispensable for careers in engineering, physical science, biology, meteorology, and even nutrition and culinary arts. Get an in-depth tour of this vital and fascinating science in 24 enthralling lectures suitable for everyone from science novices to experts who wish to review elementary concepts and formulas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Course; Particularly as Review
- By Qoheleth on 01-12-19
By: Jeffrey C. Grossman, and others
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Welcome to the Universe
- An Astrophysical Tour
- By: Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,176
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,171
Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all - from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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All About What We Know About the Universe - ALL
- By J.B. on 02-17-17
By: Michael A. Strauss, and others
