Sailing a Serious Ocean
After sailing 300,000 miles and weathering dozens of storms in all the world’s oceans, John Kretschmer has plenty of stories
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A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0
Journey through time and space with Bill Bryson in the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, exploring the history
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Abundance
The New York Times best-selling “manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world’s most pressing concerns:
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Under Fire and Under Water
Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West
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To Engineer Is Human
How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s – the collapse of the
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Murmurs of Earth
In 1977, two extraordinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as
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Cloud Warriors
For millennia, humans have tried to understand and predict the weather. The Space Age helped usher in satellites and radar,
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The Evidence for Modern Physics
How do we know the universe is 13.8 billion years old? How do we know the speed of light is
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A Bridge to the Future: Understanding Nanotechnology, Part 1
Nanotechnology is radically altering the world in ways almost unimaginable in only the very recent past. With applications in arenas
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Deep Medicine
One of America’s top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to
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