M. Swett
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The Allure of the Multiverse
- Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
- De: Paul Halpern
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
In The Allure of the Multiverse, physicist Paul Halpern tells the epic story of how science became besotted with the multiverse, and the controversies that ensued. The questions that brought scientists to this point are big and deep: Is reality such that anything can happen, must happen? How does quantum mechanics "choose" the outcomes of its apparently random processes? And why is the universe habitable? Each question quickly leads to the multiverse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Amazon Customer en 02-26-24
- The Allure of the Multiverse
- Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
- De: Paul Halpern
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
horrific narration
Revisado: 02-24-25
it was very hard to listen to - it made it to 6 hours and just had to quit
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1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- De: Eric H. Cline
- Narrado por: Eric H. Cline
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 685
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 595
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 594
This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and best-selling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Look past the one-star reviews: this is an enlightening and engaging read.
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-07-22
- 1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- De: Eric H. Cline
- Narrado por: Eric H. Cline
horrible delivery
Revisado: 01-16-25
the information is interesting I just couldn't listen to Dr. Cline. why didn't you get a professional narrator, first goodness sake
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My Stroke of Insight
- De: Jill Bolte Taylor
- Narrado por: Jill Bolte Taylor
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,488
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,906
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,905
In My Stroke of Insight, Taylor shares her unique perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery, and the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this unusual and inspiring voyage out of the abyss of a wounded brain. It would take eight years for Taylor to heal completely. Because of her knowledge of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and most of all an amazing mother, Taylor completely repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent description of stroke experience
- De Polyhymnia en 09-26-09
- My Stroke of Insight
- De: Jill Bolte Taylor
- Narrado por: Jill Bolte Taylor
Start with TED's first viral talk
Revisado: 06-15-24
This is an incredible story beautifully and compellingly told. However - the TED talk is the first thing you should experience. It was the very first to go viral way back when TED was an infant. If you don't get goosebumps or tear-up - well, I bet you do!
Jill says that she learned more about her brain from experiencing her stroke than she had in many years as a neuroscientist.
While this is not written as a self help book - I found a number of methods Jill used in rebuilding her brain to be very helpful to me. As an overthinker/ruminator, I found her technique of stopping in the moment to see, hear, taste, smell to be very useful in retraining neural pathways.
She is truly a wonderful and very brave woman.
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The Light Eaters
- How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
- De: Zoë Schlanger
- Narrado por: Zoë Schlanger
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 432
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 395
The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining perhaps but not science.
- De Jerry Miller en 07-31-24
- The Light Eaters
- How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
- De: Zoë Schlanger
- Narrado por: Zoë Schlanger
Dazzling acheivement!
Revisado: 06-15-24
What a wonderfully researched, shaped and told story this is. I was listening to Ed Yong's "I contain Multitudes" when I heard Zoe Schlanger interviewed on Fresh Air and just had to let her jump the queue.
There is much that overlaps between the two books and amazement in each. I found The Light Eaters to be even more filled with delight and astonishment and the author's commitment to her story was fabulous.
It is very heartening that there are people like Schlanger, Yong, Sheldrake, Lent and others who can gather knowledge from disparate fields and synthesize it for us. We need to know how unbelievably complex and interconnected our world is before it's too late. I hope these are the grains of rice that will eventuate the avalanche and change how we interact with each other and the world (metaphor taken from Jeremy Lent)
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The Web of Meaning
- Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
- De: Jeremy Lent
- Narrado por: Adam Henderson
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Award-winning author, Jeremy Lent, investigates humanity's age-old questions - Who am I? Why am I? How should I live? - from a fresh perspective, weaving together findings from modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and Indigenous wisdom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary
- De Sandra Leahsong en 09-21-21
- The Web of Meaning
- Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
- De: Jeremy Lent
- Narrado por: Adam Henderson
Almost walked away - glad I didn't
Revisado: 06-15-24
The author does bang on (and on) about the negatives in our world, even after agreement has been reached. It got so depressing that twice I nearly deleted the book. I'm glad I didn't. I think he has some very important things to say and in the end there is hope. Learning about Neg-entropy made it worth much of the downside. The Narrator unfortunately wasn't told how to pronounce Jill Bolte Taylor (NOT Bolt!!!) and that was annoying as she, rightly, popped up now and then.
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I Contain Multitudes
- The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
- De: Ed Yong
- Narrado por: Charlie Anson
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,849
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,323
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,305
Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin - a "microbe's-eye view" of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of life on Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Undoes what you've learned from the headlines
- De Tristan en 10-14-16
- I Contain Multitudes
- The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
- De: Ed Yong
- Narrado por: Charlie Anson
Complexity
Revisado: 05-26-24
I love science books that inspire and astound. this did both. I took a pause in the middle and listened to Light Eaters (also 5 stars) and they have many points of contact.
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Before & Laughter
- De: Jimmy Carr
- Narrado por: Jimmy Carr
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 609
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 541
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 538
In his mid-20s, Jimmy was bored, boring, unfulfilled and underachieving. He wasn't exactly depressed, but he was very sad. Think of a baby owl whose mum has recently died in a windmill accident. He was that sad. This audiobook tells the story of how Jimmy turned it around and got happy, through the redemptive power of dick jokes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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didn't realize what I was getting into
- De Doug Scheiber en 10-16-21
- Before & Laughter
- De: Jimmy Carr
- Narrado por: Jimmy Carr
loved it
Revisado: 01-13-23
lots of laughs as well as some great advice along the way. I will happily recommend it
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