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The Better Half
- On the Genetic Superiority of Women
- Narrado por: Dr. Sharon Moalem MD PhD
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An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life
This program is read by the author
Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger immune systems. They're better at fighting cancer and surviving famine, and even see the world in a wider variety of colors. They are simply stronger than men at every stage of life. Why is this? And why are we taught the opposite?
To find out, Dr. Sharon Moalem drew on his own medical experiences - treating premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit; recruiting the elderly for neurogenetic studies; tending to HIV-positive orphans in Thailand - and tried to understand why in every instance men were consistently less likely to thrive. The answer, he discovered, lies in our genetics: two X chromosomes offer a powerful survival advantage.
With clear, captivating prose that weaves together eye-opening research, case studies, diverse examples ranging from the behavior of honeybees to American pioneers, as well as experiences from his personal life and his own patients, Moalem explains why genetic females triumph over males when it comes to resiliency, intellect, stamina, immunity and much more. He also calls for a reconsideration of our male-centric, one-size-fits-all view of medical studies and even how we prescribe medications - a view that still sees women through the lens of men.
Revolutionary and yet utterly convincing, The Better Half will make you see humanity and the survival of our species anew.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- De Nerd's-eye view en 12-06-19
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Secrets of Giants
- A Journey to Uncover the True Meaning of Strength
- De: Alyssa Ages
- Narrado por: Alyssa Ages
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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Alyssa Ages was the strongest she’d ever been, able to flip monster truck tires and walk with 300 pounds on her back. She felt invincible, until the day her body betrayed her, leaving her vulnerable and grasping for control. Rebuilding her strength slowly brought her back to life. She began to wonder: What if strength isn't about how much we can lift? What if it's about how we manage life’s struggles? In Secrets of Giants, Ages, now a mom of two, embarks on an immersive journey to the fringe of the weight-lifting world, the sport of strongman.
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a fresh take on strongman from a woman's perspective
- De winnie en 01-16-24
De: Alyssa Ages
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Doing Harm
- De: Maya Dusenbery
- Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with experts within and outside the medical establishment, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today.
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One of the most important books ever written
- De Dresden en 03-18-18
De: Maya Dusenbery
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Einstein's Monsters
- The Life and Times of Black Holes
- De: Chris Impey
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, and yet they are ubiquitous. Frighteningly enigmatic, these dark giants continue to astound even the scientists who spend their careers studying them. Einstein’s Monsters reveals how our comprehension of black holes is intrinsically linked to how we make sense of the universe and our place within it. From the small questions to the big ones - from the tiniest particles to the nature of space-time itself - black holes might be the key to a deeper understanding of the cosmos.
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Above my brain grade
- De Amazon Customer en 12-02-21
De: Chris Impey
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Women in the Picture
- What Culture Does with Female Bodies
- De: Catherine McCormack
- Narrado por: Patty Nieman
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster — women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art — think Titian, Botticelli, and Millais — and the image-saturated world of fashion photographs, advertisements, and social media, and boldly counters these depictions by turning to the work of women artists like Morisot, Ringgold, Lacy, and Walker.
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An excellent listen!
- De Lauren Asheim en 03-08-23
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Virology
- Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
- De: Joseph Osmundson
- Narrado por: Joseph Osmundson
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish - with the power to shape not only our health, but our social, political, and economic systems. Drawing on his expertise in microbiology, Joseph Osmundson brings listeners under the microscope to understand the structure and mechanics of viruses and to examine how viruses like HIV and COVID-19 have redefined daily life. Virology is a critical warning, a necessary reflection, and a call for a better future.
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Audience confusion
- De Tom en 07-31-22
De: Joseph Osmundson
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Superlative
- The Biology of Extremes
- De: Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- De Nerd's-eye view en 12-06-19
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Secrets of Giants
- A Journey to Uncover the True Meaning of Strength
- De: Alyssa Ages
- Narrado por: Alyssa Ages
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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Alyssa Ages was the strongest she’d ever been, able to flip monster truck tires and walk with 300 pounds on her back. She felt invincible, until the day her body betrayed her, leaving her vulnerable and grasping for control. Rebuilding her strength slowly brought her back to life. She began to wonder: What if strength isn't about how much we can lift? What if it's about how we manage life’s struggles? In Secrets of Giants, Ages, now a mom of two, embarks on an immersive journey to the fringe of the weight-lifting world, the sport of strongman.
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a fresh take on strongman from a woman's perspective
- De winnie en 01-16-24
De: Alyssa Ages
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Doing Harm
- De: Maya Dusenbery
- Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with experts within and outside the medical establishment, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today.
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One of the most important books ever written
- De Dresden en 03-18-18
De: Maya Dusenbery
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This Is Chance!
- The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
- De: Jon Mooallem
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis - the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. This Is Chance! is the thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster - and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together.
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amazing story
- De Dani L en 02-07-21
De: Jon Mooallem
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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Bolder even than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness.
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For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
- De Darwin8u en 02-11-18
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Awakening Artemis
- Deepening Intimacy with the Living Earth and Reclaiming Our Wild Nature
- De: Vanessa Chakour
- Narrado por: Vanessa Chakour
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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A healing resource that blends practical plant-based knowledge with spiritual reconnection to show how a respect for and communion with our natural world guides us toward healing.
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conversational and informative
- De HappyMama en 02-05-22
De: Vanessa Chakour
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Net Gains
- Inside the Beautiful Game's Analytics Revolution
- De: Ryan O'Hanlon
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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This in-depth examination of soccer takes listeners on a tour across the world and throughout history, introducing the many people who have attempted to shine a light onto and innovate a sport that, in many ways, is still stuck in the Dark Ages. This deep dive into the rise of analytics in soccer—a sport where tradition reigns supreme—shows how revolutionary tactics and underexplored metrics are breaking the beautiful game wide open.
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Must read!
- De Kathleen V Fahey en 01-26-23
De: Ryan O'Hanlon
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Survival of the Friendliest
- Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
- De: Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness. For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened?
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Weak Arguments and Bad Science
- De R. MacDonald en 04-09-21
De: Brian Hare, y otros
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We Are Agora
- How Humanity Functions as a Single Superorganism That Shapes Our World and Our Future
- De: Byron Reese
- Narrado por: Justin Price
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Could humans unknowingly be a part of a larger superorganism—one with its own motivations and goals, one that is alive, and conscious, and has the power to shape the future of our species? This is the fascinating theory from author and futurist Byron Reese, who calls this human superorganism “Agora.” In We Are Agora, Reese starts by asking the question, “What is life and how did it form?” From there, he looks at how multicellular life came about, how consciousness emerged, and how other superorganisms in nature have formed.
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An Exploration of Humanity's Collective Soul
- De Doug Hohulin en 12-13-23
De: Byron Reese
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The Demon in the Machine
- How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
- De: Paul Davies
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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What is life? In this penetrating and wide-ranging book, world-renowned physicist and science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name; it is a domain where biology, computing, logic, chemistry, quantum physics, and nanotechnology intersect.
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Rather deep for average reader but full of new research
- De BBWrighter en 07-28-24
De: Paul Davies
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Truth
- A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
- De: Tom Phillips
- Narrado por: Tom Phillips
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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We live in a “post-truth” world, we’re told. But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? Or have people been lying, fibbing, and just plain bullsh*tting since the beginning of time? Tom Phillips, editor of a leading independent fact-checking organization, deals with this question every day. In Truth, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - about everything from business to politics to plain old geography.
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A fun, informative book
- De GJW en 05-09-23
De: Tom Phillips
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The Lost River
- De: Michel Danino
- Narrado por: Vishal Menon
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses. One of them disappeared. Celebrated as Sarasvati in the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, this river was rediscovered in the early 19th century through topographic explorations by British officials. Recently, geological and climatological studies have probed its evolution and disappearance, while satellite imagery has traced the river's buried courses....
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Superb introductory history "Indus Civilization"
- De DesiBOOKworm en 08-11-20
De: Michel Danino
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Blood Farm
- The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis
- De: Cara McGoogan
- Narrado por: Cara McGoogan
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely. Then, as chronicled in Blood Farm, a new HIV-positive population emerged, one that included kids like Ken Dixon, Brad Cross, and Ryan White who had been infected as young as ten years old. But how?
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Judgmental author
- De Labs4life en 07-19-24
De: Cara McGoogan
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Always Day One
- How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever
- De: Alex Kantrowitz
- Narrado por: Alex Kantrowitz
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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At Amazon, "Day One" is code for inventing like a startup, with little regard for legacy. Day Two is, in Jeff Bezos' own words, "stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death." Most companies today are set up for Day Two. They build advantages and defend them fiercely, rather than invent the future. But Amazon and fellow tech titans Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are operating in Day One: They prioritize reinvention over tradition and collaboration over ownership.
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Some good insights but amusingly pro-Amazon
- De Autumn en 03-10-21
De: Alex Kantrowitz
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The Secret Language of Cells
- What Biological Conversations Tell Us About the Brain-Body Connection, the Future of Medicine, and Life Itself
- De: Jon Lieff MD
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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While cells are commonly considered the building block of living things, it is actually the communication between cells that brings us to life, controlling our bodies and brains, determining whether we are healthy or sick, and directly influencing how we think, feel, and behave. In The Secret Language of Cells, doctor and neuroscientist Jon Lieff lets us listen in on these conversations, and reveals their significance for everything from mental health to cancer.
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top notch!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-11-20
De: Jon Lieff MD
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- David Plourde
- 12-01-23
LOVED it!!!
Insightful information that I did not know and the things I had a grasp on were talked about more. I hope this doctor writes more and continues this research! A must to listen to!!
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- Elijones
- 01-28-23
Very informative
This book does a wonderful job at illustrating how our genetic differences have shaped the way we express our genes and the way those expressions are/should be treated.
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- Jake Rosser
- 10-18-20
Paradigm Shifting Material
This book turned my world upside down in how I thought about women and men. While men were blessed with more testosterone, it comes a cost of less cellular cooperation. I don't want to ruin the book for you so let that wet your appetite.
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- Anabelle Cardona
- 04-16-22
very good
this'll change the course for science, feminism and the self esteem for young girls in today's age. teenage girls always have a phase, whether it's starving, cutting or transitioning. I hope this book is read in schools and colleges. I hope that amidst all the misogyny and perpetual self hatred young girls feel they can at least know they're built to last. I hope that the future of science changes to take sex differences into account instead of constantly ignoring them to save money. I hope the world overall learns from this book.
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