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    • An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things
    • By: Josh Clark, Chuck Bryant
    • Narrated by: Chuck Bryant, Josh Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 504 ratings
    • From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew. Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious....

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    • With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
    • By: Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the 20th century and the distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology....

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    • A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
    • By: Paul Levy, Jean Houston - foreword
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • Written for those with no physics background, Paul Levy's latest book, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, is for those who have heard that quantum physics is a fascinating subject but don't quite understand how or why....

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    • The Molecule That Made the World
    • By: Nick Lane
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • Oxygen takes the listener on an enthralling journey, as gripping as a thriller, as it unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death....

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    • By: Richard Dawkins
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,921 ratings
    • Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it....

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    • The Unofficial Guide to Earth's Stupidest Show
    • By: Matt Brady
    • Narrated by: Joe Hempel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Explore the real science behind the Cartoon Network phenomenon Rick and Morty - one of television's most irreverent, whip-smart, and darkly hilarious shows - and discover how close we are to Rick's many experiments becoming a reality....

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    • Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
    • By: Roger Penrose
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". He examines what physics can tell us....

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    • A Strange and Terrible Saga
    • By: Hunter S. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,470 ratings
    • First published in 1966, Hell’s Angels is Thompson’s up-close and personal look at the infamous motorcycle gang during the time when its moniker was most feared....

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    • A Cultural History of Alcohol
    • By: Iain Gately
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day....

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    • Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach
    • By: Laurence Leamer
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • In March 1999, a Palm Beach matron and her socially ambitious husband invited the elite of the island for a dinner dance honoring Prince Edward....

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    • How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
    • By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,184 ratings
    • Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last 75 years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism....

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    • The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
    • By: Mitch Prinstein
    • Narrated by: Mitch Prinstein
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
    • No matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word popular immediately transports you back to your teenage years....

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    • What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth
    • By: Nick Greene
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius draws on the expertise of board-game creators, magicians, therapists, and more....

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    • By: Athena Aktipis, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Athena Aktipis
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 341 ratings
    • You watch a horror movie or TV series and think, “Zombies don’t really exist.” But when you consider the broader definition of zombification—the control of one entity by another—then zombies are definitely among us. And, it turns out, they have much to teach us about the world....

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    • The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
    • By: David Hajdu
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 883 ratings
    • In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created in the bold, pulpy pages of comic books....

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    • Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths
    • By: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair? These questions are a sample of the urban lore investigated in this audiobook....

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    • What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
    • By: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,060 ratings
    • The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

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