Machine Biology
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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- By: Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms - that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the development of better antibiotics against life-threatening diseases.
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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-11-2018
- Language: English
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Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....
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The Meme Machine
- By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our distant ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began, a survival of the fittest amongst competing ideas and behaviors. Ideas and behaviors that proved most adaptive-making tools, for example, or using language - survived and flourished, replicating themselves in as many minds as possible.
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How the ape got his big brain...
- By Anonymous User on 12-10-2020
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The Meme Machine
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2019
- Language: English
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First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began....
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The Genesis Machine
- Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
- By: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel
- Narrated by: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Synthetic biology promises to reveal how life is created and how it can be re-created, enabling scientists to rewrite the rules of our reality. It could help us, for example, heal without prescription medications, grow meat without harvesting animals, or confront our looming climate catastrophe. Synthetic biology will determine the ways in which we conceive future generations and how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves.
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interesting and insightful
- By Anonymous User on 21-03-2022
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The Genesis Machine
- Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
- Narrated by: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, Landon Woodson, Amanda Dolan
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 15-02-2022
- Language: English
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What if the miracle that created mRNA vaccines is less a once-in-lifetime event and more the harbinger of the emerging age of synthetic biology? This fusion of biology and computers has a singular goal: to gain access to cells in order to write new—and possibly better—biological code....
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Life’s Ratchet
- How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
- By: Peter M. Hoffman
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The cells in our bodies consist of molecules, made up of the same carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms found in air and rocks. But molecules, such as water and sugar, are not alive. So how do our cells - assemblies of otherwise "dead" molecules - come to life, and together constitute a living being? In Life’s Ratchet, physicist Peter M. Hoffmann locates the answer to this age-old question at the nanoscale.
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Life’s Ratchet
- How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-02-2014
- Language: English
- Part history, part cutting-edge science, part philosophy, Life’s Ratchet takes us from ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern nanotechnology to tell the story of our quest for the machinery of life....
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Beyond Boundaries
- The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines - and How It Will Change Our Lives
- By: Miguel Nicolelis
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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Imagine living in a world where people use their computers, drive their cars, and communicate with one another simply by thinking. In this stunning and inspiring work, Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis shares his revolutionary insights into how the brain creates thought and the human sense of self - and how this might be augmented by machines, so that the entire universe will be within our reach.
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Beyond Boundaries
- The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines - and How It Will Change Our Lives
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2011
- Language: English
- A pioneering neuroscientist shows how the long-sought merger of brains with machines is about to become a paradigm-shifting reality.....
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The Age of Living Machines
- How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
- By: Susan Hockfield
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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The Age of Living Machines describes some of the most exciting new developments and the scientists and engineers who helped create them. Virus-built batteries. Protein-based water filters. Cancer-detecting nanoparticles. Mind-reading bionic limbs. Computer-engineered crops. Together they highlight the promise of the technology revolution of the 21st century to overcome some of the greatest humanitarian, medical, and environmental challenges of our time.
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The Age of Living Machines
- How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2019
- Language: English
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From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution and how it will change our lives....
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The Digital Ape
- How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines
- By: Dr. Nigel Shadbolt, Roger Hampson
- Narrated by: Tom McGairl
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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How smart machines are transforming us all - and what we should do about it. The smart machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Nigel Shadbolt (one of Britain’s leading authorities on artificial intelligence) and Roger Hampson dispel terror, confusion and misconception. We are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of superintelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo sapiens and will continue to control them. How we exercise that control - in our private lives, in employment, in politics - and make the best of the wonderful opportunities will determine our collective future well-being.
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The Digital Ape
- How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines
- Narrated by: Tom McGairl
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-05-2018
- Language: English
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How smart machines are transforming us all - and what we should do about it....
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