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Apollo 8
- The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
- De: Jeffrey Kluger
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,714
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,563
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,562
In August 1968 NASA made a bold decision: In just 16 weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history of NASA and Apollo 8: a must listen
- De J en 11-17-17
- Apollo 8
- The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
- De: Jeffrey Kluger
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
An excellent true story, beautifully rendered
Revisado: 02-27-18
What did you love best about Apollo 8?
I really liked that it gave the backstory of the Gemini missions. Those are the forgotten missions that played such a key role in the later successes.
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Heart of the Machine
- Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence
- De: Richard Yonck
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Imagine a robotic stuffed animal that can read and respond to a child's emotional state or a commercial that can change based on a customer's facial expression. Heart of the Machine explores the next giant step in the relationship between humans and technology: the ability of computers to recognize, respond to, and even replicate emotions. Computers have long been integral to our lives, and their advances continue at an exponential rate.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Trivial, trite, superficial and why bother
- De Gary en 05-20-17
- Heart of the Machine
- Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence
- De: Richard Yonck
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
A book on machine emotion read with zero emotion
Revisado: 02-27-18
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I would recommend a friend get the kindle version of this book. The topics are interesting but the performance was completely flat.
Were the concepts of this book easy to follow, or were they too technical?
They were at a fine level but the performance got in the way
How could the performance have been better?
Give a little emotion. The reader sounded like a late night FM radio host on Nyquil.
Was Heart of the Machine worth the listening time?
Not really
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Fuzzy Nation
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi - introduction
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,885
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12,662
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,664
In John Scalzi's re-imagining of H. Beam Piper's 1962 sci-fi classic Little Fuzzy, written with the full cooperation of the Piper Estate, Jack Holloway works alone for reasons he doesnt care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorps headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporations headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, thats not up for discussion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short, sweet, and satisfying storytelling.
- De Samuel Montgomery-Blinn en 05-11-11
- Fuzzy Nation
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi - introduction
A wonderful refresh of an old classic
Revisado: 03-06-17
Where does Fuzzy Nation rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
As always with Scalzi and Wheaton its a tight, compelling story brought alive by great naration.
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Agent to the Stars
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16,133
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14,643
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,617
The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent
- De C. Paget en 12-28-10
- Agent to the Stars
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
Surprisingly wonderful
Revisado: 02-25-17
This combination of author and reader hit another one out of the park. I'm buying everything they do together.
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Armada
- A Novel
- De: Ernest Cline
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48,362
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 44,745
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 44,649
Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I loved Ready Player One. Hated Armada
- De Joshua en 07-17-15
- Armada
- A Novel
- De: Ernest Cline
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
Every bit as good as RP1
Revisado: 12-13-16
Some people have said that this book was not as good as his first book, ready player one. I have to strongly disagree. This wonderful adventure ride of the book. The highest praise I can give it is that I was sad when it was over.
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Life’s Ratchet
- How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
- De: Peter M. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Paul Hodgson
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 384
The cells in our bodies consist of molecules, made up of the same carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms found in air and rocks. But molecules, such as water and sugar, are not alive. So how do our cells - assemblies of otherwise "dead" molecules - come to life, and together constitute a living being? In Life’s Ratchet, physicist Peter M. Hoffmann locates the answer to this age-old question at the nanoscale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For biologists to learn single molecule biophysics
- De A Synthetic Biologist en 09-04-14
- Life’s Ratchet
- How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
- De: Peter M. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Paul Hodgson
A fine book for a very hard-core science reader
Revisado: 09-21-16
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
I wish I had skipped the first few chapters/hours as they were a brutal slog through history. It finally picked up (I was on a six hour car trip with few options so I stuck with it) and got more interesting. I have a strong science background so the material wasn't over my head, it was just unbelievably dry for the first 3-4 hours of the book.
Would you be willing to try another book from Peter M. Hoffman? Why or why not?
Not too likely. One of his themes is the triumph of reductionism over new age nonsense. Although in the conclusion he backtracks and says top down and bottom up are both valuable most of the books is very closed minded about reductionism is the only way.
Did Life’s Ratchet inspire you to do anything?
Find better books.
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