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  • Ten Drugs cover art

    • Ten Drugs

    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 474 ratings

    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

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    • Atomic Accidents

    • A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....

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    • Blood and Guts

    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

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    • Galileo's New Universe

    • The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos
    • By: Stephen P. Maran, Laurence A. Marschall
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The historical and social implications of the telescope and that instruments modern-day significance are brought into startling focus in this fascinating account....

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    • What the F

    • What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
    • By: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Smart as hell and funny as f--k, What the F is mandatory listening for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear....

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    • The Icepick Surgeon

    • Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost....

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    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

    • The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
    • By: Richard P. Feynman
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....

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    • Origin Story

    • A Big History of Everything
    • By: David Christian
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings

    • A captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future....

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    • You Don't Want to Know

    • By: James Felton
    • Narrated by: James Buckley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings

    • In this audiobook, you'll find the maddest, strangest and downright grossest stories from history and science that you don't want to know....

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    • Mutants

    • On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
    • By: Armand Marie Leroi
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it....

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    • A Brief History of Earth

    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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    • Pandora’s Lab

    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • By: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 631 ratings
    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

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    • The Clockwork Universe

    • Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
    • By: Edward Dolnick
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine....

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    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 26-02-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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    • The Invisible Rainbow

    • A History of Electricity and Life
    • By: Arthur Firstenberg
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings

    • Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....

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    • Where Good Ideas Come From

    • The Natural History of Innovation
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Eric Singer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • What sparks the flash of brilliance? One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on - in exhilarating style - one of our key questions....

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    • Gravity's Century

    • From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
    • By: Ron Cowen
    • Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings

    • A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and more....

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