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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading
- De Andrew en 11-09-09
De: Bill Bryson
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The Things We Make
- The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
- De: Bill Hammack
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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Discover the secret method used to build the world....
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Blends history and technical method explanations
- De Aaron Trachtman en 05-26-23
De: Bill Hammack
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Starry Messenger
- Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
- De: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all....
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Optimistic
- De Anonymous en 09-23-22
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....
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Some good points, but not a great book
- De William Jenks en 07-25-19
De: Carl Sagan
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Waking Up
- A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- De: Sam Harris
- Narrado por: Sam Harris
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....
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I don't completely agree. BUT THAT SAID...
- De World Peace en 09-11-14
De: Sam Harris
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....
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The best of competence porn
- De Tristan en 08-20-16
De: Ashlee Vance
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...
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The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading
- De Andrew en 11-09-09
De: Bill Bryson
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The Things We Make
- The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
- De: Bill Hammack
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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Discover the secret method used to build the world....
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Blends history and technical method explanations
- De Aaron Trachtman en 05-26-23
De: Bill Hammack
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Starry Messenger
- Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
- De: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all....
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Optimistic
- De Anonymous en 09-23-22
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....
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Some good points, but not a great book
- De William Jenks en 07-25-19
De: Carl Sagan
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Waking Up
- A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- De: Sam Harris
- Narrado por: Sam Harris
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....
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I don't completely agree. BUT THAT SAID...
- De World Peace en 09-11-14
De: Sam Harris
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....
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The best of competence porn
- De Tristan en 08-20-16
De: Ashlee Vance
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How Emotions Are Made
- The Secret Life of the Brain
- De: Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology....
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Emotions are not things!!!!!!
- De Gary en 03-14-17
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Return of the God Hypothesis
- Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
- De: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 18 h y 49 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....
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A Wonderful Culmination of Dr. Meyer’s Work
- De Trevor Rolls en 03-31-21
De: Stephen C. Meyer
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Finding the Mother Tree
- Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
- De: Suzanne Simard
- Narrado por: Suzanne Simard
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....
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Couldn't finish, will try the hard copy
- De primrose en 07-22-21
De: Suzanne Simard
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- De: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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The problem is not with the book
- De Marcus en 08-09-09
De: Thomas S. Kuhn
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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- De: Brian Christian
- Narrado por: Brian Christian
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.
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Required reading for any AI course
- De ehan ferguson en 11-16-20
De: Brian Christian
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A Mind for Numbers
- How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
- De: Barbara Oakley
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material....
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Not quite what you expect
- De Sean P Ruggier en 07-20-22
De: Barbara Oakley
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- De: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 24 h y 38 m
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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....
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RUINED audio.
- De Fred en 06-25-21
De: Ray Kurzweil
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The Big Picture
- On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
- De: Sean Carroll
- Narrado por: Sean Carroll
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
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Listeners learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level - and then how each connects to the other....
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ABSOLUTE MUST READ!
- De serine en 05-12-16
De: Sean Carroll
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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
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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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Free Will
- De: Sam Harris
- Narrado por: Sam Harris
- Duración: 1 h y 14 m
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A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality.....
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Wrong Question
- De Jennifer en 11-15-14
De: Sam Harris
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Until the End of Time
- Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
- De: Brian Greene
- Narrado por: Brian Greene
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe....
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Uneven
- De NJ en 03-03-20
De: Brian Greene
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Bernoulli's Fallacy
- Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
- De: Aubrey Clayton
- Narrado por: Tim H. Dixon
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
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There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: It underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines....
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Rigorously Bayesian
- De Anonymous User en 01-25-22
De: Aubrey Clayton
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The Language of God
- A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
- De: Francis S. Collins
- Narrado por: Francis S. Collins
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture....
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For those on the fence
- De Stephen en 10-07-06
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The Invisible Rainbow
- A History of Electricity and Life
- De: Arthur Firstenberg
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....
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Crackpot
- De Peter Nee en 08-29-21
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Other Minds
- The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
- De: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds....
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Mischief and Craft
- De Darwin8u en 08-10-17
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Consilience
- The Unity of Knowledge
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities....
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A Singular Achievement!
- De The Saint en 02-25-19
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Merchants of Doubt
- How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- De: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
- Narrado por: Liza Seneca
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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Merchants of Doubt tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades....
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heroic
- De Anonymous User en 06-02-23
De: Naomi Oreskes, y otros
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Fantastic Fungi
- How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
- De: Paul Stamets
- Narrado por: Eugenia Bone
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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Viewed in over 100 countries and selling hundreds of thousands of tickets, Schwartzberg’s documentary Fantastic Fungi has brought the mycological revolution to the world stage.
De: Paul Stamets
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- De: Steven Pinker
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 19 h y 49 m
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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives....
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We live in the best of all times
- De Neuron en 02-25-18
De: Steven Pinker
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The Experience Machine
- How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
- De: Andy Clark
- Narrado por: Andy Clark
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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For as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what’s really there—or so the thinking goes. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption on its head....
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About halfway through, it became propaganda
- De Jesse Helton en 08-13-23
De: Andy Clark
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Stealing Fire
- How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
- De: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....
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Very disappointing. Not what it promises to be.
- De R8r en 03-18-17
De: Steven Kotler, y otros
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The Shallows
- What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- De: Nicholas Carr
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds....
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It is not consistant, so it is frustrating.
- De Adam Shields en 08-03-12
De: Nicholas Carr
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
- De: Richard P. Feynman
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....
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Interesting, but material is covered in better book.
- De Erlend en 04-06-16
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Rationality
- What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
- De: Steven Pinker
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’ "new favorite book of all time”) answers all the questions here....
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Steven Pinker's Frozen Worldview from the 90s
- De Ryan Booth en 11-12-21
De: Steven Pinker