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Wild Ideas in Science

By: Scientific American
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Bernadette Dunne, Mack Sanderson, John Lescault
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Science history is chock full of world-changing innovations that initially faced skepticism and ridicule for being too unconventional: light bulbs, cars, and home computers are just a few examples. In this audiobook, we take a look at the latest out-of-the-box ideas to tackle today’s biggest challenges, including so-called sponge cities designed to combat flooding, technology that mimics photosynthesis to produce fuel, modifying bacteria’s genetic circuits to treat genetic diseases, and much more.

©2020 Scientific American, a division of Springer Nature America, Inc. (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Technology Innovations History & Culture Future Studies Social Sciences

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I'm almost done with this audio book, and it wasn't what I expected.
I thought it would be about wild scientific concepts. It's mostly a review of historical science failures that went on to cause horrible environmental damage or mass suffering.
I'm sure some people will like it, but I didn't.

The reader is great, but the content was not-fun.

Historical science fails.

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