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Packed with amazing trivia, weird world records, and mind-blowing facts, this book is perfect for curious kids, trivia-loving teens, and even grown-ups who can't resist a quirky fact or two. Whether you're sharing hilarious facts around the table, keeping the kids entertained, or wowing your friends with your trivia skills, this book is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.

Marine algae are the supreme eco-engineers of life: they oxygenate the waters, create habitat for countless other organisms, and form the base of a food chain that keeps our planet unique in the universe as we know it. In this audiobook Josie Iselin explores both the artistic and the biological presence of 16 seaweeds and kelps that live in the thin region where the Pacific Ocean converges with the North American continent - a place of incomparable richness.

In a warm, wonder-filled voice that reads like a bedside conversation with a kind teacher, 100 Amazing Facts for Curious Kids Ages 4-12 invites children to open their eyes wide and fall in love with the world God made. Every second is a doorway: short, surprising facts arranged by topic space, oceans, animals, inventions, history, and faith written for young listeners who love to ask questions and for parents who love to answer them.

Join Albert and Colleen as they find and share some of the fascinating stories from history.

In Why We Love Serial Killers, criminology professor Dr. Scott Bonn explores our powerful appetite for the macabre, while also providing new and unique insights into the world of the serial killer, including those he has gained from his correspondence with two of the world’s most notorious examples, David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") and Dennis Rader ("Bind, Torture, Kill").

Exploring The Curious

Interviews featuring a mix of investigative journalists, affecting writers, economics, geopolitics, explorers and fascinating life stories.Whether it's the supply chain of semi-conductors, a 25 year cold-war CIA veteran, negotiation with Chris Voss, Warden of Sweden's biggest prison, Lawrence Krauss and the universe, Cricket with the GOAT Gideon Haigh, Taiwan, China, the great adventurers and explorers the list goes on...Check out the 'Starter Packs' I put together for the best place to start with the pod... economics, Subscribe to the Substack: https://curiousworldviewpod.substack.com/...

The future of work started yesterday, and everyone's scrambling to figure out what's next. Join Milly Tamati and Lindsey Lerner, as they build Generalist World and ask the quiet questions out loud. Generally Curious is the show where the minds shaping tomorrow's workforce gather to swap notes, learn, teach, shortcut, and predict. And now, you have a front-row seat! Each episode is no-nonsense, packed with answers to the questions you need to know to navigate an ambiguous future. Subscribe now for meaningful conversations that equip you with actionable strategies for your career.

It’s part philosophy, part stream-of-consciousness, and part impromptu karaoke as I can’t resist singing whatever song pops into my head mid-thought. Whether we’re chatting about manifestation, the nature of reality, or the blessing and curse of being human, it’s always raw, real, and a little bit ridiculous. Join me, Topher, as I dive into a new topic or question each episode, unravelling mysteries, exploring ideas, and sharing my nerdy musings along the way. Let’s get curious! 🤓🎙️❤️

It’s part philosophy, part stream-of-consciousness, and part impromptu karaoke as I can’t resist singing whatever song pops into my head mid-thought. Whether we’re chatting about manifestation, the nature of reality, or the blessing and curse of being human, it’s always raw, real, and a little bit ridiculous. Join me, Topher, as I dive into a new topic or question each episode, unravelling mysteries, exploring ideas, and sharing my nerdy musings along the way. Let’s get curious! 🤓🎙️❤️

This close look at Wonder Woman's history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman with a golden lasso and bullet-deflecting bracelets. The original Wonder Woman was ahead of her time, advocating female superiority and the benefits of matriarchy in the 1940s. At the same time, her creator filled the comics with titillating bondage imagery, and Wonder Woman was tied up as often as she saved the world.

Penguin Classics presents Jonathan Swift's inventive classic, Gulliver's Travels, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Hugh Laurie, star of the hit TV series House. 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each...

A weekly podcast hosted by Charlie Whyman featuring interviews with innovators, disruptors, change-makers and curious thinkers wanting to make an impact in the world and help others. The goal of this podcast is for you to take away at least one thing that inspires you to lead change in business, be it improvements in process and leadership, the motivation to get something off the ground that you've been thinking about for a while and/or ideas on people or organisations you can collaborate and work with to support you.

When Louise Root, a new client of Cecil Younger, is found murdered, the private investigator finds himself in the middle of an environmental law violation that has deadly repercussions. Cecil finds he is unable to leave behind Root, especially after her ex-lover Hannah asks him for help. On top of it all, Global Mining, the company that runs the gold mine where Root's body was found, hires Younger to get the dirt on an environmentalist who has a connection to the victim. In the midst of all this, Cecil's personal life is fraying.

Penguin Classics presents Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Julie Christie. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on...

Fitzgerald's tale of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. This story was the basis for the Oscar-winning Brad Pitt film of the same name.

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In this collection of true, quirky history, Steve Silverman provides fascinating tales to astonish and entertain. Covering a wide variety of topics, these stories that have been lost to history highlight the quirks, complexities, and curious nature of our species.

Thrive through Stoic wisdom, better communication, and global exploration. Host Sarah Mikutel is a communication coach and American expat in England who's here to help you make the most of your brief time on Earth. Memento mori. It’s time to make every moment matter.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Mark Twain was ingenious at political satire. In this short story Twain recounts his learning of the political system of the fictional Republic of Gondour. Listeners will tell quickly that Gondour had some pretty unusual laws related to the vote of the people. We end up just as confused as Twain intended, but the twist at the end brings us exactly where Twain intended for us to be - in our own country with our own politics.