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Bestsellers
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- De: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: David E. Sanger, y otros
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Stephen Perring
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- De Dalton en 06-06-22
De: Vaclav Smil
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- De: Andy Greenberg
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- De ndru1 en 11-12-19
De: Andy Greenberg
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- De: Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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I can't seem to like this book...
- De Ken Vanden branden en 07-23-23
De: Scott J. Shapiro
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- De: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....
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Excellent Book, As the Weinersmiths Are Known to Do!
- De R. Carr en 02-03-24
De: Kelly Weinersmith, y otros
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Recoding America
- Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
- De: Jennifer Pahlka
- Narrado por: Jennifer Pahlka
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....
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Very good, minimally partisan.
- De Samuel Mebane en 11-25-23
De: Jennifer Pahlka
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- De: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: David E. Sanger, y otros
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Stephen Perring
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- De Dalton en 06-06-22
De: Vaclav Smil
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- De: Andy Greenberg
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- De ndru1 en 11-12-19
De: Andy Greenberg
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- De: Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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I can't seem to like this book...
- De Ken Vanden branden en 07-23-23
De: Scott J. Shapiro
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- De: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....
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Excellent Book, As the Weinersmiths Are Known to Do!
- De R. Carr en 02-03-24
De: Kelly Weinersmith, y otros
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Recoding America
- Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
- De: Jennifer Pahlka
- Narrado por: Jennifer Pahlka
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....
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Very good, minimally partisan.
- De Samuel Mebane en 11-25-23
De: Jennifer Pahlka
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- De: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrado por: Jay Aaseng
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Excellent science based
- De Russ en 05-08-21
De: Steven E. Koonin
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The Car
- The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World
- De: Bryan Appleyard
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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This book celebrates the immense drama and beauty of the car. As the age of the car as we know it comes to an end, Bryan Appleyard's brilliantly insightful book tells the story of the rise and fall of the incredible machine that made the modern world what it is today....
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Enaging
- De andrew bengtson en 08-22-23
De: Bryan Appleyard
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System Error
- Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
- De: Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors reveals how big tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves....
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Excellent on tech. Weak on political speech.
- De Kindle Customer en 11-05-21
De: Rob Reich, y otros
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The Fifth Domain
- Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
- De: Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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An urgent new warning from two best-selling security experts - and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone....
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The Author Lacks Critical Thinking
- De Thomas Rose en 08-08-20
De: Richard A. Clarke, y otros
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Accessory to War
- The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
- De: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....
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Inspiring, educational, patriotic.
- De Kevin en 09-17-18
De: Avis Lang, y otros
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Space Chronicles
- Facing the Ultimate Frontier
- De: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson - one of our foremost thinkers on all things space - illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration....
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The least helpful review of Space Chronicles.
- De Joshua Kring en 06-17-15
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The Power Brokers
- The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry
- De: Jeremiah D. Lambert
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States....
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Excellent Evolutionary Discourse on US Utilities
- De Bala en 10-31-21
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Evolutionary Intelligence
- How Technology Will Make Us Smarter
- De: W. Russell Neuman
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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In Evolutionary Intelligence, Neuman offers a surprisingly positive vision in which computational intelligence compensates for the well-recognized limits of human judgment, improves decision making, and actually increases our agency.
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Tyranny, Inc.
- How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It
- De: Sohrab Ahmari
- Narrado por: Sohrab Ahmari
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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Provocative, original, and cutting across partisan lines, Tyranny, Inc. tells the inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back....
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Doesn't address the whole picture
- De Penelope M en 09-18-23
De: Sohrab Ahmari
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Climate Uncertainty and Risk
- Rethinking Our Response
- De: Judith Curry
- Narrado por: Wendy Tremont King
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change.
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Fantastically balanced and optimistic.
- De aaron en 04-02-24
De: Judith Curry
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Lessons from the Covid War
- An Investigative Report
- De: COVID Crisis Group
- Narrado por: Derek Shetterly
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s COVID response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times....
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Great, but more is needed...
- De Michael en 06-28-23
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Os engenheiros do caos
- Como as fake news, as teorias da conspiração e os algoritmos estão sendo utilizados para disseminar ódio, medo e influenciar eleições
- De: Giuliano da Empoli
- Narrado por: Luciano Andrey
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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"Uma mentira pode dar a volta ao mundo no mesmo tempo que a verdade leva para calçar seus sapatos." Mark Twain. Aos olhos dos seus eleitores, as deficiências...
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Blockchain Governance
- De: Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers, Morshed Mannan
- Narrado por: April Doty
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers, and Morshed Mannan provide a critical overview of legal and political issues related to blockchain technology.
De: Primavera De Filippi, y otros
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- De: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrado por: Richard Lyddon
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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The Technology Trap reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation....
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Very good
- De Brad en 07-04-19
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Physics for Future Presidents
- The Science Behind the Headlines
- De: Richard A. Muller
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times....
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must read for all open minded people
- De John Burrus en 06-23-11
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The Handover
- How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
- De: David Runciman
- Narrado por: David Runciman
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations—"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power—to predict how AI will remake society....
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States and corporations as AIs, before AI
- De W. P. Gardner en 11-21-23
De: David Runciman
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Unsettled, Updated and Expanded Edition
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- De: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrado por: Jay Aaseng
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change—with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future.
De: Steven E. Koonin
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Longshot
- The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
- De: David Heath
- Narrado por: David Heath, Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 8 h
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This is the incredible story of the scientists who created a coronavirus vaccine in record time....
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Facts.
- De Theresa D. Fellmann en 04-06-24
De: David Heath
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The Next Pandemic
- On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
- De: Ali Khan, William Patrick
- Narrado por: Ben Sullivan
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases - and the panic and corruption that make them worse....
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Many Outstanding Stories about Many Scary Microbes
- De aaron en 01-24-17
De: Ali Khan, y otros
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AI Needs You
- How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
- De: Verity Harding
- Narrado por: Daisy Donovan
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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This audiobook narrated by Daisy Donovan shares an electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI’s future for the public good.
De: Verity Harding
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Atomic Days
- The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
- De: Joshua Frank
- Narrado por: Will Tulin
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl....
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this is more political than I thought it should be
- De Dean en 09-29-23
De: Joshua Frank
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)
- De: Christopher C. Horner
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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The big media have spoken on the question of global warming, and the debate is officially over. But have Al Gore and his environmentalist allies really proven their case? Not even close....
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Must Read
- De Michael en 03-01-07
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Uncontrolled Spread
- Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
- De: Scott Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
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Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America’s pandemic preparations....
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Save yourself the time and $
- De Travis en 09-21-21
De: Scott Gottlieb
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Containing Big Tech
- How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy
- De: Tom Kemp
- Narrado por: Dave Clark
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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The path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopolies....
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A Must-Read for those concerned our democracy
- De Alexander en 11-04-23
De: Tom Kemp
Nuevos lanzamientos
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Evolutionary Intelligence
- How Technology Will Make Us Smarter
- De: W. Russell Neuman
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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It is natural for us to fear artificial intelligence. But does Siri really want to kill us? Perhaps we are falling into the trap of projecting human traits onto the machines we might build. In Evolutionary Intelligence, Neuman offers a surprisingly positive vision in which computational intelligence compensates for the well-recognized limits of human judgment, improves decision making, and actually increases our agency. Neuman takes the listener on an exciting, fast-paced ride, all the while making a convincing case about a revolution in computationally augmented human intelligence.
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Blockchain Governance
- De: Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers, Morshed Mannan
- Narrado por: April Doty
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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How can digital cash truly be "trustless"? What does it mean that blockchain offers a new paradigm of the "rule of code"? How are decisions made when a blockchain system faces an emergency, and who gets to make those decisions? In Blockchain Governance, Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers, and Morshed Mannan offer answers to these questions and more, in an accessible, critical overview of legal and political issues related to blockchain technology.
De: Primavera De Filippi, y otros
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The Leak
- Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- De: Robert P. Crease, Peter D. Bond - contributor
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science. But its discovery triggered a media and political firestorm that resulted in the reactor's shutdown, and even attempts to close the entire laboratory. A quarter century later, the episode reveals the dynamics of today's controversies in which fears and the dismissal of science disrupt serious discussion and research of vital issues.
De: Robert P. Crease, y otros
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Longshot
- The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
- De: David Heath
- Narrado por: David Heath, Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 8 h
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In Longshot, investigative journalist David Heath takes listeners inside the small group of scientists whose groundbreaking work was once largely dismissed but whose feat will now eclipse the importance of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine in medical history. With never-before-reported details, Heath reveals how these scientists overcame countless obstacles to give the world an unprecedented head start when we needed a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Facts.
- De Theresa D. Fellmann en 04-06-24
De: David Heath
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Patrons of Paleontology
- How Government Support Shaped a Science (Life of the Past Series)
- De: Jane P. Davidson
- Narrado por: Randye Kaye
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In this book, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed.
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boring
- De Chance E Ralls en 09-20-23
De: Jane P. Davidson
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Democrazia e potere dei dati
- Libertà, algoritmi, umanesimo digitale
- De: Antonello Soro
- Narrado por: Riccardo Forte
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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"La sicurezza cibernetica è un problema di sicurezza nazionale, se dovesse scoppiare una guerra la minaccia non arriverebbe dai carri armati ma dagli attacchi ai sistemi digitali, dalle torri di controllo agli acquedotti." (Antonello Soro, la Repubblica). Il rapporto tra tecnica e democrazia, pur certamente non nuovo, è divenuto centrale nell'era digitale. L'impatto delle nuove tecnologie sulla vita individuale e collettiva è tale da dover essere affrontato con il massimo grado di consapevolezza.
De: Antonello Soro
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Evolutionary Intelligence
- How Technology Will Make Us Smarter
- De: W. Russell Neuman
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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It is natural for us to fear artificial intelligence. But does Siri really want to kill us? Perhaps we are falling into the trap of projecting human traits onto the machines we might build. In Evolutionary Intelligence, Neuman offers a surprisingly positive vision in which computational intelligence compensates for the well-recognized limits of human judgment, improves decision making, and actually increases our agency. Neuman takes the listener on an exciting, fast-paced ride, all the while making a convincing case about a revolution in computationally augmented human intelligence.
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Blockchain Governance
- De: Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers, Morshed Mannan
- Narrado por: April Doty
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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How can digital cash truly be "trustless"? What does it mean that blockchain offers a new paradigm of the "rule of code"? How are decisions made when a blockchain system faces an emergency, and who gets to make those decisions? In Blockchain Governance, Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers, and Morshed Mannan offer answers to these questions and more, in an accessible, critical overview of legal and political issues related to blockchain technology.
De: Primavera De Filippi, y otros
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The Leak
- Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- De: Robert P. Crease, Peter D. Bond - contributor
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science. But its discovery triggered a media and political firestorm that resulted in the reactor's shutdown, and even attempts to close the entire laboratory. A quarter century later, the episode reveals the dynamics of today's controversies in which fears and the dismissal of science disrupt serious discussion and research of vital issues.
De: Robert P. Crease, y otros
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Longshot
- The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
- De: David Heath
- Narrado por: David Heath, Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 8 h
- Versión completa
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In Longshot, investigative journalist David Heath takes listeners inside the small group of scientists whose groundbreaking work was once largely dismissed but whose feat will now eclipse the importance of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine in medical history. With never-before-reported details, Heath reveals how these scientists overcame countless obstacles to give the world an unprecedented head start when we needed a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Facts.
- De Theresa D. Fellmann en 04-06-24
De: David Heath
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Patrons of Paleontology
- How Government Support Shaped a Science (Life of the Past Series)
- De: Jane P. Davidson
- Narrado por: Randye Kaye
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In this book, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed.
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boring
- De Chance E Ralls en 09-20-23
De: Jane P. Davidson
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Democrazia e potere dei dati
- Libertà, algoritmi, umanesimo digitale
- De: Antonello Soro
- Narrado por: Riccardo Forte
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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"La sicurezza cibernetica è un problema di sicurezza nazionale, se dovesse scoppiare una guerra la minaccia non arriverebbe dai carri armati ma dagli attacchi ai sistemi digitali, dalle torri di controllo agli acquedotti." (Antonello Soro, la Repubblica). Il rapporto tra tecnica e democrazia, pur certamente non nuovo, è divenuto centrale nell'era digitale. L'impatto delle nuove tecnologie sulla vita individuale e collettiva è tale da dover essere affrontato con il massimo grado di consapevolezza.
De: Antonello Soro
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Deepfakes (German edition)
- Wie gefälschte Botschaften im Netz unsere Demokratie gefährden und unsere Leben zerstören können
- De: Nina Schick, Kristin Lohmann - Übersetzer, Johanna Ott - Übersetzer
- Narrado por: Rike Schmid
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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Dank neuester Entwicklungen im Bereich der KI sind hochentwickelte maschinelle Systeme durch das Scannen und Verändern bestehenden Fotomaterials in der Lage, Fotos oder Videos zu generieren und sie mit einem Kontext auszustatten, den es nie gegeben hat. Wird darauf zudem eine authentisch wirkende Tonspur gelegt, sind die Resultate absolut überzeugend - und verheerend in ihrer Wirkung. Diese so genannten "Deep Fakes" sind eine reale Gefahr für Demokratien, denn sie haben die Macht, Wahlmanipulation auf ein ganz neues Level zu heben und die Entscheidungen nichtsahnender Bürger massiv und grundlegend zu beeinflussen.
De: Nina Schick, y otros
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You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late
- The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches
- De: Josephine Wolff
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 14 h
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Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of alarm and amnesia continues with the next attack, and the one after that. Cybersecurity expert Josephine Wolff argues that we shouldn't forget about these incidents, we should investigate their trajectory, from technology flaws to reparations for harm done to their impact on future security measures. We can learn valuable lessons in the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches.
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Good primer
- De Amazon Customer en 02-13-21
De: Josephine Wolff
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The Equality Machine
- Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
- De: Orly Lobel
- Narrado por: Dominique Dibbell
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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Much has been written about the challenges tech presents to equality and democracy. But we can either criticize big data and automation or steer it to do better. Lobel makes a compelling argument that while we cannot stop technological development, we can direct its course according to our most fundamental values. With provocative insights in every chapter, Lobel masterfully shows that digital technology frequently has a comparative advantage over humans.
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Enlightening peek into the future
- De APBaller en 06-13-23
De: Orly Lobel
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- De: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrado por: Richard Lyddon
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members.
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- De Brad en 07-04-19
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The Fight for Privacy
- Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
- De: Danielle Keats Citron
- Narrado por: Chloe Cannon
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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A masterful new look at privacy in the twenty-first century, The Fight for Privacy takes the focus off Silicon Valley moguls to investigate the price we pay as technology migrates deeper into every aspect of our lives: entering our bedrooms and our bathrooms and our midnight texts; our relationships with friends, family, lovers, and kids; and even our relationship with ourselves.
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Instrumental to fostering understanding
- De Amazon Customer en 02-27-23
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Atomic Days
- The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
- De: Joshua Frank
- Narrado por: Will Tulin
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl. The EPA designated Hanford the most toxic place in America; it is also the most expensive environmental clean-up job the world has ever seen, with a $677 billion price tag that keeps growing.
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this is more political than I thought it should be
- De Dean en 09-29-23
De: Joshua Frank
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What Stays in Vegas
- The World of Personal Data - Lifeblood of Big Business - and the End of Privacy as We Know It
- De: Adam Tanner
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously gathering data with little oversight from anyone. In Las Vegas, no company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment. Many thousands of enthusiastic clients pour through the ever-open doors of their casinos. The secret to the company’s success lies in their one unrivaled asset: they know their clients intimately by tracking the activities of the overwhelming majority of gamblers.
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Great Story of Data Analytics Transforming Casinos
- De Todd B en 07-14-19
De: Adam Tanner
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Icarus
- or The Future of Science
- De: Bertrand Russell
- Narrado por: Denis Daly
- Duración: 49 m
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In this rambling essay, Bertrand Russell reflects on the future of the world while the memory of the First World War was still strong in the public imagination. Russell notes the concomitant development of technology and the rise of political autocracies and explores whether man can be considered fit to handle the vast new powers at his disposal.
De: Bertrand Russell
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Digital Grooming
- Discourses of Manipulation and Cyber-Crime
- De: Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
- Narrado por: Gabrielle Baker
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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By shedding new light on grooming practices, this book provides a key resource for discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, communication, and media studies, as well as for practitioners aiming to counter online grooming through policy changes, detection software, and prevention-focused training to promote digital civility and safety.
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System Error
- Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
- De: Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. System Error exposes the root of our current predicament - how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get- and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.
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Excellent on tech. Weak on political speech.
- De Kindle Customer en 11-05-21
De: Rob Reich, y otros
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- De: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrado por: Jay Aaseng
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation. Core questions - about the way the climate is responding to our influence, and what the impacts will be - remain largely unanswered. The climate is changing, but the why and how aren't as clear as you've probably been led to believe.
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Excellent science based
- De Russ en 05-08-21
De: Steven E. Koonin
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National Cybersecurity Strategy
- De: The White House
- Narrado por: Tom Brooks
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
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This National Cybersecurity Strategy audiobook details the comprehensive approach my administration is taking to better secure cyberspace and ensure the United States is in the strongest possible position to realize all the benefits and potential of our digital future.
De: The White House
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Exploding Data
- Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
- De: Michael Chertoff
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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In this bracing book, Michael Chertoff makes clear that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be completely overhauled in the Internet era. In offering his compelling call for action, Chertoff argues that what is at stake is not so much the simple loss of privacy, which is almost impossible to protect, but of individual autonomy - the ability to make personal choices free of manipulation or coercion.
De: Michael Chertoff
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American Manifesto
- Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves
- De: Bob Garfield
- Narrado por: Bob Garfield
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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As is often observed, Trump is a symptom of a virus that has been incubating for at least 50 years. But not often observed is where the virus is imbedded: in the psychic core of our identity. In American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves, Bob Garfield examines the tragic confluence of the American preoccupation with identity and the catastrophic disintegration of the mass media.
De: Bob Garfield
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2019, pensiamo positivo
- Rep Digest 43
- De: Ilvo Diamanti, Eugenio Scalfari, Jared Diamond, y otros
- Narrado por: Daria Esposito, Stefano Starna, Luca Breda
- Duración: 59 m
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2019, pensiamo positivo. I buoni propositi per il nuovo anno in sei articoli di Repubblica: Più fiducia nello Stato e nella politica. Gli italiani preferiscono la democrazia, di Ilvo Diamanti; Voler bene all'Europa in un mondo così confuso, di Eugenio Scalfari; Il futuro ha quattro sfide, facciamo vincere l'ottimismo, di Jared Diamond; Il coraggio di parlare di bontà, di Michele Serra; La giovane Italia della scienza: "Il futuro siamo noi", di Elena Dusi; Quel Paese che vorremmo e non esiste, di Eugenio Scalfari.
De: Ilvo Diamanti, y otros
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)
- De: Christopher C. Horner
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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The big media have spoken on the question of global warming, and the debate is officially over. "Be afraid, be very afraid", warns Time magazine. But have Al Gore and his environmentalist allies really proven their case? Not even close, says Christopher C. Horner.
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Must Read
- De Michael en 03-01-07
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The Future of Violence
- Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones - Confronting a New Age of Threat
- De: Benjamin Wittes, Gabriella Blum
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying by the National Security Agency, the US government has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. But what happens when ordinary people have the same tools at their fingertips? Advances in cybertechnology, biotechnology, and robotics mean that more people than ever before have access to potentially dangerous technologies that could be used to attack states and private citizens alike.
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I enjoyed Digital Crimes much more
- De Rick Segrest en 06-20-15
De: Benjamin Wittes, y otros
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Mental Health Care in the United States
- The Case for Federal Action
- De: United States Senate Committee on Finance
- Narrado por: Tom Brooks
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
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The United States is experiencing a profound crisis when it comes to mental health care. In a recent Senate Committee on Finance hearing on youth mental health, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy shared that Americans wait 11 years, on average, between onset of symptoms and first receiving treatment. The consequences are plain to see: higher suicide and drug overdose rates, more Americans without a safe place to sleep, more children experiencing depression and anxiety. The house is on fire, and the nation is short on firefighters equipped to put out the blaze.
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Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
- Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
- De: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrado por: Jamie East
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances and their electrifying implications for us all.
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Its great but
- De Cody Edwards en 06-26-20
De: Slavoj Žižek
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What You Don't Know
- AI's Unseen Influence on Your Life and How to Take Back Control
- De: Cortnie Abercrombie
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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You are probably not aware, because of their hidden nature, but artificial intelligence systems are all around you affecting some of the biggest areas of your life - jobs, loans, kids, mental health, relationships, freedoms, and even healthcare decisions that can determine if you live or die.
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Why Ads are everywhere and how to avoid it.
- De Amazon Customer en 11-11-22
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Lessons from the Covid War
- An Investigative Report
- De: COVID Crisis Group
- Narrado por: Derek Shetterly
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed by neglect. So a remarkable group of practitioners and scholars from many backgrounds came together determined to discover and learn lessons from this latest world war. Lessons from the COVID War is plain-spoken and clear sighted. It cuts through the enormous jumble of information to make some sense of it all and answer: What just happened to us, and why? And how, next time, could we do better? Because there will be a next time.
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Great, but more is needed...
- De Michael en 06-28-23
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Covid Lockdown Insanity
- The Covid Deaths It Prevented, the Depression and Suicides It Caused, What We Should Have Done, and What It Shows We Could Do Now to Address Real Crises
- De: Hugh McTavish PhD
- Narrado por: Hugh McTavish PhD
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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A Ph.D. biochemist and immunologist goes through the data on one of the greatest public policy disasters in human history—the lockdown response to COVID. How deadly was COVID originally and after it had evolved for a year or two? How many COVID deaths were prevented by the lockdowns? How many people did the lockdowns throw into depression? How many people did the lockdowns kill by deaths of despair? But the good news from the lockdowns is it shows citizens are willing to make enormous sacrifices for their society and that we can transform society on a dime.
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- De: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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New Cold Wars—the latest from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger—is a fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous confrontations with two very different adversaries. For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peace—so long as they agreed to Washington’s terms. By the time America emerged from the age of terrorism, it was clear that this had been a fantasy.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: David E. Sanger, y otros
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When Science Meets Power (1st Edition)
- De: Geoff Mulgan
- Narrado por: Michael Langan
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan here calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding—and unsolicited—authority being heaped upon science. As science increasingly competes with politics, a defined plan of cooperation is urgently needed.
De: Geoff Mulgan