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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The water off Peru warms. Fish disappear. Rain floods places built for drought, while farms thousands of miles away wait for rain that never comes. Ships stall. Food prices rise. At first, these look like separate crises. Super El Niño follows the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The world has a plan for many disasters but almost none for a threat that is far more likely to strike first. A volcano does not have to be near anyone to hurt them. The largest eruptions throw sulfur into the upper atmosphere and dim the sun across the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The largest brain that has ever existed on Earth belongs to a sperm whale. It is about six times heavier than a human brain, and it spends its life a kilometer down, in total darkness, talking. Sperm whales trade rapid patterns of clicks for hours...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What would count as evidence that somebody is really there? What happens if we believe a machine too readily—or fail to recognize one that can suffer? The answer could change how we build AI, how we treat it, and what we think a mind is. Machines can...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A man presses a button on a remote control, and his own hand begins to shake. He presses it again, and the shaking stops. The difference between a body that obeys and one that does not is a single setting on a machine implanted in his brain. Machines...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The largest living space on Earth is a place almost no one has ever seen. Below the reach of sunlight lies a world of permanent darkness, near-freezing cold and pressure that can crush a submarine in a fraction of a second. It covers most of the planet...