Biological Age

In this audiobook, the acclaimed author of The Fate of Rome and Plagues upon the Earth delivers a monumental history of the world that lays bare the devastating human toll on animal life Humans are a force of nature like no other animal on the planet. For thousands of years, we have radically...

Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves' actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed.

What if getting older could be undone?In animals, it already has been. Researchers took cells from old mice, switched them back toward a younger state, and the animals changed too. Blind mice saw again. Aged mice recovered lost memories. Mice treated near the end of life lived more than twice as...

A science-backed guide to reversing chronic symptoms and slowing aging by restoring your body’s most powerful healing force: your cells INCLUDES A QUIZ TO ESTABLISH YOUR ORGANS’ AGE AND HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR RESULTS Your cells are talking. The question is: Are you listening? You can be eating...

The definitive guide to you and your age, showing you how to live your best life healthy and happy. Research suggests that only 10-30% of our lifespan is determined by our genetics. This means that the vast majority of how we age is directly related to choices we make everyday - how and what we...

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Introduction to Christianity and Science: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that...

In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history - and our part in it - is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face an intensified replay of that great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history.

As at home with Galileo and his daughter in Florence as he is with Diderot in Enlightenment France, William and Alice James in fin-de-siècle Boston, or the latest research on the genome, Gerald Weissmann distills the lessons of history to guide us through our troubled age. His message is clear: "Experimental science is our defense-perhaps our best defense-against humbug and the Endarkenment."

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology.

In accessible language and with periodic references to Star Trek, motorcycle daredevils, and near-classic movies of the '80s, developmental molecular biologist John Medina explores the neurological and evolutionary factors that drive teenage behavior and can affect both achievement and engagement. Then he proposes a research-supported counterattack: a bold redesign of educational practices and learning environments to deliberately develop teens' cognitive capacity to manage their emotions, plan, prioritize, and focus.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Living longer only matters if you can keep the life you actually care about. This practical audiobook cuts through the noise around longevity, anti-aging, supplements, biological age tests, fasting, and futuristic therapies. Instead of selling a miracle...