Eduardo Bessa
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A Voice in the Wilderness
- A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
- De: Professor Joseph L Graves Jr. PhD
- Narrado por: Kyle Chapple
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Evolutionary science has long been regarded as conservative, a tool for enforcing regressive ideas, particularly about race and gender. But in A Voice in the Wilderness, evolutionary biologist Joseph L. Graves Jr.—once styled as the “Black Darwin”—argues that his field is essential to social justice. He shows, for example, why biological races do not exist. He dismantles recent work in “human biodiversity” seeking genes to explain the achievements of different ethnic groups. He decimates homophobia, sexism, and classism as well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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an urged voice
- De Eduardo Bessa en 01-31-23
- A Voice in the Wilderness
- A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
- De: Professor Joseph L Graves Jr. PhD
- Narrado por: Kyle Chapple
an urged voice
Revisado: 01-31-23
You have science communication books and you have autobiographies. Graves Jr. puts both together masterfully. On the one hand he shows how evolution depends on diversity, including what is usually called race, to succeed. Not homogenisation of a species into a preferred ethnicity, diversity. On the other hand he tells his beautiful personal story of struggle stepping up against structural racism and even personal disbelief for a more just scientific entrepreneurship and society as a whole. We urgently need more people like Joseph L. Graves Jr. Thanks to him, we will probably have them.
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Ignorance
- How It Drives Science
- De: Stuart Firestein
- Narrado por: David Copelin
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance - not knowledge - that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In fact, says Firestein, more often than not, science is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, and there may not be a cat in the room.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It turns out, I’m not dumb at all
- De corridor5 en 03-28-18
- Ignorance
- How It Drives Science
- De: Stuart Firestein
- Narrado por: David Copelin
all true, but could be explored deeper
Revisado: 10-10-22
As a scientist myself, I agree with most of what was said, but I feel all the issues could have been explored more deeply. I understand why the author chose this approach, but I think the audience would benefit from a more profound discussion.
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From Blood and Ash
- Blood and Ash, Book 1
- De: Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Narrado por: Stina Nielsen
- Duración: 19 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22,654
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20,264
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20,203
Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hum - just hum
- De Amazon Customer en 09-22-20
- From Blood and Ash
- Blood and Ash, Book 1
- De: Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Narrado por: Stina Nielsen
Sooooo predictable!
Revisado: 06-04-22
ok, maybe I'm not the intended public, but the characters are thin, the story feels like I already knew it from, like, a thousand other books or movies. I can only point to some of the fantasy universe as captivating, but I won't read further to confirm it.
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The Social Instinct
- How Cooperation Shaped the World
- De: Nichola Raihani
- Narrado por: Nichola Raihani
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3
Why cooperate? This may be the most important scientific question we have ever, and will ever, face. The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also where we might end up. Cooperation explains how strands of DNA gave rise to modern-day nation states. It defines our extraordinary ecological success, as well as many of the most surprising features of what make us human: not only why we live in families, why we have grandmothers and why women experience the menopause, but also why we become paranoid and jealous, and why we cheat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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can't tell which is best: content or narration
- De Eduardo Bessa en 04-14-22
- The Social Instinct
- How Cooperation Shaped the World
- De: Nichola Raihani
- Narrado por: Nichola Raihani
can't tell which is best: content or narration
Revisado: 04-14-22
Nichola gives an overview of what is known about social behaviour, frequently in first person, under the viewpoint of the COVID pandemic. This book is a soothing perspective on human's capacity to solve problems in groups, but it also covers sociality from termites and wasps to apes, birds and fish.
As much as I loved the story presented, I must also acknowledge Nichola's gorgeous accent and delighting pace. I love book's narrated by the author, but having this piece read by her pretty voice was certainly an extra.
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Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 194,148
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 177,591
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 177,039
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bazinga
- De Davidgonzalezsr en 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Did Andy actually do all the calculation?!
Revisado: 12-17-21
As I finish the book the impression I have is that the author actually did calculate everything. I can't tell as for linguistics, physics or chemistry, but I'm an ecologist and I couldn't find a major flaw in Andy's scientific background to the book. Being scientifically sounds is just a detail that allowed me to enjoy the story as much as I did. The characters are not at all shallow and most of the plot grips you as hell. If earth is out into a space challenge for survival one day, I hope they have Andy to guide us to our salvation. For now he has certainly saved my Christmas break.
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The Storyteller
- Tales of Life and Music
- De: Dave Grohl
- Narrado por: Dave Grohl
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 22,759
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20,155
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20,059
Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to tell these stories just as I have always done, in my own voice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Written and performed masterfully, just like all Dave Gohl’s music!
- De Michael Rickard en 10-05-21
- The Storyteller
- Tales of Life and Music
- De: Dave Grohl
- Narrado por: Dave Grohl
A first hand narrative of a passionate life
Revisado: 11-25-21
I always liked Dave Grohl's music, but to know the stories and life of the artist I knew was surprising in the least. He is worth every accomplishment he ever achieved. Inspiring from the first page.
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The Other Animals
- De: Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Ken Liu, R. Eric Thomas, y otros
- Narrado por: Ken Liu, Lulu Miller, Max McClure, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 248
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 220
In The Other Animals, a worm breaks up with a snail, a vulture contemplates the act of killing, a whale falls in love with a song, and more. This funny, moving collection of stories - written by a crew of scientists, literary writers, and comics, and informed by animal behavioral science - explores what animal perspectives can show humans about the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Unbelievably Gorgeous
- De Amazon Customer en 11-15-19
the animal point of view
Revisado: 12-10-20
I'm an animal behaviourist and loved these great short stories. they're fun and attentive to many aspects of animal behaviour science, still keeping a nice narrative.
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh
- The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 863
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 751
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 745
She Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. We need a new definition of what heredity is and, through Carl Zimmer's lucid exposition and storytelling, this resounding tour de force delivers it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Changed this strict genetic determinist's mind
- De Anonymous User en 06-11-18
- She Has Her Mother's Laugh
- The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
Zimmer is always precise
Revisado: 04-21-20
with his clear prose, eyewitness and profound comprehension, Carl Zimmer conveys a much broader, and correct, view of heredity.
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Lab Girl
- A Memoir
- De: Hope Jahren
- Narrado por: Hope Jahren
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,014
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,613
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,594
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but it is also so much more. Because in it, Jahren also shares with us her inspiring life story, in prose that takes your breath away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A paradigm-shifting perspective on plant life
- De Elizabeth en 05-20-16
- Lab Girl
- A Memoir
- De: Hope Jahren
- Narrado por: Hope Jahren
tender hard Science
Revisado: 06-23-19
The life and challenges of a scientist told with the poetic viewpoint of a woman. a tale of friendship, devotion, curiosity and overcoming, with a comforting simplicity. Since I started listening I recommended to all my scientist friends. since I finished, I recommended to all my female friends...
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The Tangled Tree
- A Radical New History of Life
- De: David Quammen
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,047
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,047
In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across species lines. For instance, we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived not through traditional inheritance from directly ancestral forms, but sideways by viral infection - a type of HGT. In The Tangled Tree David Quammen chronicles these discoveries through the lives of the researchers who made them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Enjoyable and Readable
- De Dennis en 08-18-18
- The Tangled Tree
- A Radical New History of Life
- De: David Quammen
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
paradigm shattering
Revisado: 05-06-19
Great story telling about how science views early evolution. but, please splice it into shorter chapters.
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