Science & Technology

A Taste for the Beautiful

by Michael J. Ryan; read by Eric Martin

In A Taste for the Beautiful, Michael Ryan, one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, tells the remarkable story of how he and other scientists have taken up where Darwin left off and transformed our understanding of sexual selection, shedding new light on human behavior in the process. Learn More

Tasting the Past

by Kevin Begos; read by PJ Ochlan

A chance encounter with an obscure vintage made near Jerusalem leads journalist Kevin Begos to seek the origins of wine. What he discovers is a whole world of forgotten grapes, each with distinctive tastes and aromas, as well as the archaeologists, chemists, and botanists who are deciphering wine down to molecules of flavor. Learn More

Tech Generation

by Mike Brooks, PhD & Jon Lasser, PhD; read by Steven Jay Cohen

Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World guides parents in teaching their children how to reap the benefits of living in a digital world while also preventing its negative effects. Learn More

Technically Wrong

by Sara Wachter-Boettcher; read by Andrea Emmes

In Technically Wrong Sara Wachter-Boettcher provides a revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products―and harm us all. Learn More

The Terroir of Whiskey

by Rob Arnold; read by John McLain

In this book, the master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. Learn More

Tesla

by Richard Munson; read by Charles Constant

Though Tesla's inventions transformed our world, his true originality is shown in the visionary ambitions he failed to achieve. Learn More

The 100% Solution

by Solomon Goldstein-Rose; read by Adam Lofbomm

The world must reach negative greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change. Yet no single plan has addressed the full scope of the problem—until now. Learn More

Theories of the Universe

Stephen Hawking, et al. ; read by Julian Lopez-Morillas

The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Learn More

They Are Already Here

by Sarah Scoles; read by Suzie Althens

An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery—both terrestrial and cosmic. Learn More

The Things We Make

by Bill Hammack; read by Jonathan Todd Ross

Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan Award–winning professor of engineering and viral "The Engineer Guy" on YouTube, has a lifelong passion for the things we make, and how we make them. Now, for the first time, he reveals the invisible method behind every invention and takes us on a whirlwind tour of how humans built the world we know today. Learn More

Third Ear

by Elizabeth Rosner; read by Elizabeth Rosner

This illuminating book weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbringing with the latest scientific breakthroughs in interspecies communication to show how the skill of deep listening enhances our curiosity and empathy toward the world around us. Learn More

Through a Glass Brightly

by David P. Barash; read by Charles Constant

Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This viewpoint—a persistent paradigm of our own unique self-importance—is as dangerous as it is false. Learn More

Timefulness

by Marcia Bjornerud; read by Tanya Eby

This compelling book presents a new way of thinking about our place in time, enabling us to make decisions on multigenerational timescales. The lifespan of Earth may seem unfathomable compared to the brevity of human existence, but this view of time denies our deep roots in Earth’s history—and the magnitude of our effects on the planet. Learn More

Totally Wired

by Andrew Smith; read by Adam Lofbomm

From award-winning journalist Andrew Smith, the never before told story of the late 1990s dot-com bubble, its tumultuous crash, and the rise and fall of the visionary pioneer at its epicenter. Learn More

Toxic Water, Toxic System

by Michael Mascarenhas; read by Malcolm Hillgartner

Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost—including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people. Weaving together narratives of frontline activists along with archival data, Michael Mascarenhas provides a powerful exploration of the political alliances and bureaucratic mechanisms that uphold inequality. Learn More

Trafficking Data

by Aynne Kokas; read by Hannah Choi

From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Chinese government is capitalizing on this data flow for political gain. Learn More

Transient and Strange

by Nell Greenfieldboyce; read by Nell Greenfieldboyce

An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life. Learn More

Trolling Ourselves to Death

by Jason Hannan; read by Ray Greenley

Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Learn More

The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change

by Jerome R. Corsi, PhD, foreword by Marc Morano; read by Bob Souer

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available June

Want to know the truth about how energy, temperature, and climate work? Listen to The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change—but prepare to be shocked. Learn More

Turing's Vision

by Pietro Perconti and Alessio Plebe; read by Walter Dixon

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available December

Chat-GPT, humanoid robotics, and self-driving cars are just a few of the things that are changing our everyday lives. The rapid advancement of AI is eroding one by one all the cornerstones considered unique of human nature: language, consciousness, creativity, and moral responsibility. This book argues that the revolution we are facing is driven by Alan Turing's "vision". Learn More

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