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The Half-Life of Marie Curie
- De: Lauren Gunderson
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew, Francesca Faridany
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16,899
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15,188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15,107
In 1912, scientist Marie Curie spent two months on the British seaside at the home of Hertha Ayrton, an accomplished mathematician, inventor, and suffragette. At the time, Curie was in the throes of a scandal in France over her affair with Paul Langevin, which threatened to overshadow the accomplishment of her second Nobel Prize. Performed by Kate Mulgrew and Francesca Faridany at the Minetta Lane Theatre, this play by Lauren Gunderson is an ode to two remarkable women.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Came for the science left with the guilt
- De Matthew Boswell en 12-08-19
- The Half-Life of Marie Curie
- De: Lauren Gunderson
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew, Francesca Faridany
Disappointing
Revisado: 12-26-19
I’m sure there’s a great play to be written about the friendship between Marie Curie & Hertha Ayerton, but this is not it. It felt like a first draft for a Freshman playwriting class written immediately after seeing Michael Frayn’s “Copenhagen”. Ham-fisted, derivative, and full of highly theatrical, non-naturalistic dialogue that is too modern for the period in which the play is set, and too relentlessly on-the-nose to suggest that the people in this play have any depth at all.
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The Deep Range
- De: Arthur C. Clarke
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 42
It is the 21st century and humans have finally conquered the sea. Professionals now harvest plankton to feed the world. However, the sea has not given up all its secrets...and men like Walter Franklin are determined to find them out.
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4 out of 5 stars
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nice Clarke at sea this time
- De Darryl en 11-04-12
- The Deep Range
- De: Arthur C. Clarke
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
Bad Narration
Revisado: 08-27-19
The reader mispronounces words like ‘compass’ ‘library’ (he says libary—ugh), ‘starboard’ ‘Brisbane’ and he says yooman and yooj from human and huge. It’s painful.
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The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- De: Todd Zwillich
- Narrado por: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
- Duración: 3 h y 32 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18,854
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,025
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,972
Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Caveat Emptor: Bone to Pick
- De Judah Family en 07-05-19
- The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- De: Todd Zwillich
- Narrado por: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
Bad storytelling and worse editing.
Revisado: 08-01-19
Redundant unto itself to an exhausting degree, this audiobook might’ve been a great 30-min podcast or an excellent magazine article. Instead, it is far too long for the content it contains. It repeats so frequently the fact that John C. Houbolt neither invented Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, nor was the architect of the manner in which it was finally used, that it undermines its insistence on his importance to Apollo. And, for all of the time that it fills up, it is extremely narrow in focus, and assumes too much prior knowledge on the listener’s part (speaking as someone who has a lot of that prior knowledge, but felt cheated by all the storytelling shortcuts.)
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