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Ha!
- The Science of When We Laugh and Why
- De: Scott Weems
- Narrado por: Kalen Allmandinger
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funnyand why? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what’s happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter. While we typically think of humor in terms of jokes or comic timing, in Ha! Weems proposes a provocative new model.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good place to start in the study of humor
- De Amazon Customer en 05-26-17
- Ha!
- The Science of When We Laugh and Why
- De: Scott Weems
- Narrado por: Kalen Allmandinger
Bad science
Revisado: 05-12-23
The author regularly draws conclusions that don't follow from the studies he cites, has nothing but apologia for racist and ableist jokes, confuses irreverent jokes with subversive humor, and makes no mention of the insula on the topic of disgust even in his apologetics of "filthy foreigner" jokes. Whether or not you enjoy the book, it's bad science no matter how you dice it.
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- De: Noam Chomsky
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 3 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 769
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 655
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 647
Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Documents how US plutocracy oppresses citizens
- De BruceK en 04-14-17
- Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- De: Noam Chomsky
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
Reminiscent of a classic scientific study
Revisado: 10-19-21
Reading this book is somewhat like reading the study Testing Theories (2014) again, if it was a (very) short book written for a general american audience. That being the case, this is a worthwhile read!
Testing Theories was a landmark study that deeply influenced many of us, confirming with solid math what social theory has long known: that the States are not a democracy. Requiem for the American Dream does the same with symbols familiar to the american reader.
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The New Climate War
- The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
- De: Michael E. Mann
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 279
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good overview of the status of Climate Politics
- De Kathleen M. Lee en 02-15-21
- The New Climate War
- The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
- De: Michael E. Mann
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
A self-defeating approach
Revisado: 10-14-21
Co-opting progressive movements and icons for a message which sacrifices both to appeal to reactionary centrists is a mistake common to neoliberals. It is historically a losing strategy, but Michael Mann leans into it heavily in The New Climate War. Not worth much if you've read Naomi Klein's work already, unless you want to see the ways in which reaction co-opts climate movements.
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Care Work
- Dreaming Disability Justice
- De: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Narrado por: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 195
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As Good as It Gets
- De Nico en 09-14-21
- Care Work
- Dreaming Disability Justice
- De: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Narrado por: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
As Good as It Gets
Revisado: 09-14-21
Another crip friend of mine had rated it highly, she is also an avid reader so I knew it would be good. From a couple crips to whoever may read this, Care Work is an inspiringly real look inside our communities and justice movements and has a lot to say without ever losing its wit. Accessible and heartwarming, it is perfect for know-it-all crips and curious able-bodied folks alike and I hope you give it a read or listen.
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