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Elemental
- How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past and Will Shape Our Future
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 7 h
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This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland reveals how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future.
Taking listeners from the deep geologic past to our current era of human dominance, Stephen Porder focuses on five of life’s essential elements—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. He describes how single-celled cyanobacteria and plants harnessed them to wildly proliferate across the oceans and the land, only to eventually precipitate environmental catastrophes. He then brings us to the present, and shows how these elements underpin the success of human civilization, and how their mismanagement threatens similarly catastrophic unintended consequences. But, Porder argues, if we can learn from our world-changing predecessors, we can construct a more sustainable future.
Blending conversational storytelling with the latest science, Porder takes us deep into the Amazon, across fresh lava flows in Hawaii, and to the cornfields of the American Midwest to illuminate a potential path to sustainability, informed by the constraints imposed by life’s essential elements and the four-billion-year history of life on Earth.
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“What makes life on Earth possible? A simple question, but as Stephen Porder shows us, the answer is fascinating, complex, and absolutely vital. Told through the relationship of microbes, plants, and humans to the elements that make us—from phosphorus to carbon—this book introduces the chemical innovations that have shaped our planet. Part engaging tour through science at the intersection of biology and chemistry, part deep history that gives us tools for the future, Elemental gives us a lively look at the stuff of life itself.”—Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
“In Elemental, Stephen Porder explains why humans are both part and parcel of an Earth system that has endured for billions of years and a rare departure from the norm. His engaging, accessible, and ultimately optimistic account illuminates the remarkable innovations of modern humans, their consequences for the Earth as a whole, and what we can do to safeguard our environmental future.”—Andrew H. Knoll, author of A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. In Material World, Ed Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates.
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Insightful
- De Sam en 01-17-24
De: Ed Conway
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Free Agents
- How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
- De: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Narrado por: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.
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Adding Clarity to Agency
- De Brad Caldwell en 10-10-23
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Crossings
- How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
- De: Ben Goldfarb
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they're practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In Crossings, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, but as the new science of road ecology shows, the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill.
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Great book, but narration doesn’t fit.
- De Anonymous User en 09-22-23
De: Ben Goldfarb
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- Christian Fernholz
- 02-03-24
An accessible explanation of climate change & the need to eat less red meat
As someone who grew up on a farm and has a masters degree in materials science I may not be the best judge of how easy Dr. Porder's explanation will be for other people to follow; nevertheless, I thought this was a clear and engaging explanation of the science behind why the climate changes we are experiencing are caused by humans and a compelling call to action. The early chapters set the framework for why action is necessary. His description of specific actions we can take individually and collectively, and the impact these changes can make to alter the trajectory for future generations, inspire me to take action.
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- Michael G.
- 11-06-23
Excellent explanation of fundamentals of life
Porter ends on realistic but positive take on the constraints of life on a planet with over 8 billion needy humans who have terra formed the earth. He offers some practical actions we can each take to make life sustainable to avoid ending up like cyanobacteria.
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- Kojo Davis
- 01-23-24
the easy cognitive narrative level.
the global use and abuse of agriculture for red-meat consumption and urban sprawl among the five continents.
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- Rafael Prieto
- 04-08-24
A scientific presentation for non scientists
As an engineer by profession I really appreciate the way the book was written, all the chapters go into the necessary elements and explanations to understand the message and solutions presented by the author.
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