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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Physics & The Big Questions (English), Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, it's the great existential mystery: Why is there something rather than nothing? Now, some physicists claim they may finally know how the Big Bang could pop out of nothing, though a new book by Lawrence Krauss has sparked an intellectual brawl about science, religion and philosophy. Steve Paulson talks about our modern creation story with Krauss and fellow physicist Marcelo Gleiser. Next, Copernicus changed the world with his revolutionary idea that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of our solar system. Dava Sobel tells us why this momentous discovery wasn't easy for Copernicus, and why he feared the public's reaction. Then, will we ever understand the true nature of dark matter and dark energy? Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall examines the great mysteries in physics, and the parallels between science and art. And finally, do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos? Thousands of amateur scientists say no, and they've proposed their own theories of the universe. Science writer Margaret Wertheim says we may not accept their theories, but these outsider physicists are often worth listening to. [Broadcast Date: June 8, 2012] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/120608/rt_tbon_120608_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Physics & The Big Questions (English), Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, it's the great existential mystery: Why is there something rather than nothing? Now, some physicists claim they may finally know how the Big Bang could pop out of nothing, though a new book by Lawrence Krauss has sparked an intellectual brawl about science, religion and philosophy. Steve Paulson talks about our modern creation story with Krauss and fellow physicist Marcelo Gleiser.Next, Copernicus changed the world with his revolutionary idea that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of our solar system. Dava Sobel tells us why this momentous discovery wasn't easy for Copernicus, and why he feared the public's reaction.Then, will we ever understand the true nature of dark matter and dark energy? Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall examines the great mysteries in physics, and the parallels between science and art. And finally, do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos? Thousands of amateur scientists say no, and they've proposed their own theories of the universe. Science writer Margaret Wertheim says we may not accept their theories, but these outsider physicists are often worth listening to. [Broadcast Date: May 3, 2013] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/130503/rt_tbon_130503_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pretend We Are Lovely: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 470min
An Oprah Magazine Editors' Pick and Publishers Weekly Best of the SeasonIt's the summer of 1982 in Blacksburg, Virginia - seven years after the suspicious death of a son and sibling - and the Sobel family is hungry. Francie dresses in tennis skirts and ankle socks and weighs her grams of allotted carrots and iceberg lettuce. Her semi-estranged husband, Tate, prefers a packed fridge and hidden doughnuts. Daughters Enid, 10, and Vivvy, almost 13, are subtler versions of their parents, measuring their summer vacation by meals had or meals skipped. But at summer's end, secrets both old and new emerge, and Francie disappears, leaving the family teetering on the brink.Told from alternating points of view by the four living Sobels, Pretend We Are Lovely is a sharp and darkly funny story of forgiveness, family secrets, and the losses we inherit. At its core is the ever-complicated and deeply devoted bond of sisterhood as the girls, left mostly to their own devices, must navigate their way through middle school, find comfort in each other, and learn the difference between food and nourishment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brittany Pressley, Abigail Revasch, Jorjeana Marie, MacLeod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005209/bk_rand_005209_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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And The Sun Stood Still, Hörbuch, Digital, 110min
Dava Sobel’s thoughtful play brings to life the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer, and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe in which the Sun stands at the center. Plagued by self-doubt and threatened by religious censure, Copernicus resisted the publication of his work until just before his death in 1543. The play follows Copernicus in those final years as he works to complete his research with the help of Georg Rheticus, a young disciple from Wittenberg, Germany.Includes a conversation with playwright Dava Sobel, author of A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in February, 2015.And the Sun Stood Still is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergRobert Foxworth as CopernicusGregory Harrison as GieseMichael Kirby as RheticusKate Steele as AnnaJohn Vickery as Bishop DantsicusAssociate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson, Myke Weiskopf. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.Editor: Wes Dewberry Language: English. Narrator: Robert Foxworth, John Vickery, Kate Steele, Michael Kirby, Gregory Harrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000402/pf_latw_000402_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean-the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen-to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the decipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/003285/bk_tant_003285_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Just Kids From the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 489min
The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids From the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees' play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew's Millard (Mickey) Drexler got his street smarts and his first jobs, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel were urged to pursue science and where music-making inspired hip hop's Grandmaster Melle Mel to change the world of music forever. The parks, the pick-up games, the tough and tender mothers, the politics, the gangs, the food - for people who grew up in the Bronx, childhood recollections are fresh. Arlene Alda's own Bronx memories were a jumping-off point from which to reminisce with a nun, a police officer, an urban planner, and with Carl Reiner, Colin Powell, Maira Kalman, and many other leading artists, athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs - experiences spanning six decades. Alda then arranged these pieces of the past, the mornings on the Grand Concourse and afternoons in the halls of Bronx Science, into one great collective story, a film-like portrait of the Bronx - and of America - from the early 20th century until today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Alda, Christina Delaine, Regis Philbin, Robert Klein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001922/bk_aren_001922_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Antioch College alumni
Antioch College alumni ab 24.99 € als Taschenbuch: Stephen Jay Gould Dava Sobel Leonard Nimoy Rod Serling Winona LaDuke Arthur M. Brazier Cliff Robertson Coretta Scott King A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Elizabeth Clare Prophet Clifford Geertz David Wilcox Lawrence Block. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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American finance and investment writers
American finance and investment writers ab 23.99 € als Taschenbuch: Gary North Harry Browne Michael Johns Jim Cramer Peter Schiff James Wesley Rawles Elizabeth Warren Sharon Lechter Wayne Allyn Root Robert Kiyosaki Kenneth Fisher Michael Lewis Robert Sobel Benjamin Graham Suze Orman. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Rethinking Education, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, you want kids to love learning? Get rid of the emphais on grades and test scores. That's according to Alfie Kohn, one of America's most passionate advocates for progressive education. Next, do public schools stifle creativity and real learning, or are they essential to a diverse society? Questions like this have sparked a lively debate in response to Astra Taylor’s recent essay “Unschooling” in the literary magazine n+1 and Dana Goldstein’s response in Slate. We hear both sides. Then, Jody Lewen is the executive director of the Prison University Project, a degree-granting program for the inmates at San Quentin State Prison in California. She's seen first hand the transformative power of knowledge and education and thinks the most important feature of higher education should be accessibility. And then, Sean Pica is the executive director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a degree granting program out of Sing-Sing Prison in New York State. It's full-circle for Pica who was convicted and served time for a crime he committed as a teenager. Later we ask, why is there something rather than nothing? Physicist Lawrence Krauss claims we may finally have an answer, though fellow physicist Marcelo Gleiser is skeptical. Then, Copernicus changed the world with his revolutionary idea that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of our solar system. Dava Sobel tells us why this momentous discovery wasn't easy for Copernicus himself. Next, will we ever understand the true nature of dark matter and dark energy? Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall considers these and other great mysteries in physics. Finally, do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos? Science writer Margaret Wertheim says thousands of amateur scientists have proposed their own theories about the universe. Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/120606/rt_tbon_120606_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Rethinking Education, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, you want kids to love learning? Get rid of the emphais on grades and test scores. That's according to Alfie Kohn, one of America's most passionate advocates for progressive education. Next, do public schools stifle creativity and real learning, or are they essential to a diverse society? Questions like this have sparked a lively debate in response to Astra Taylor’s recent essay “Unschooling” in the literary magazine n+1 and Dana Goldstein’s response in Slate. We hear both sides. Then, Jody Lewen is the executive director of the Prison University Project, a degree-granting program for the inmates at San Quentin State Prison in California. She's seen first hand the transformative power of knowledge and education and thinks the most important feature of higher education should be accessibility. And then, Sean Pica is the executive director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a degree granting program out of Sing-Sing Prison in New York State. It's full-circle for Pica who was convicted and served time for a crime he committed as a teenager. Later we ask, why is there something rather than nothing? Physicist Lawrence Krauss claims we may finally have an answer, though fellow physicist Marcelo Gleiser is skeptical. Then, Copernicus changed the world with his revolutionary idea that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of our solar system. Dava Sobel tells us why this momentous discovery wasn't easy for Copernicus himself. Next, will we ever understand the true nature of dark matter and dark energy? Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall considers these and other great mysteries in physics. Finally, do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos? Science writer Margaret Wertheim says thousands of amateur scientists have proposed their own theories about the universe. [Broadcast Date: May 17, 2013] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/130517/rt_tbon_130517_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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