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Understanding the Science for Tomorrow: Myth and Reality

By: Jeffrey C. Grossman, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Jeffrey C. Grossman
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Summary

Science and technology are, without a doubt, two forces that will change the way you live your life in the coming months, years, and decades. And in recent decades, these forces have evolved and developed at a lightning-fast pace.

Explore the many possibilities of what your future may look like with these 24 lectures: a scientifically accurate and enlightening survey of today's most advanced research in fields such as engineering, biology, chemistry, and theoretical physics.

You'll see firsthand how recent developments in science and technology can potentially fulfill this need in a range of modern-day, real-world areas like transportation, computing, medicine, and energy. The lectures are filled with intriguing sneak peeks at the latest developments and technologies in a range of scientific fields, including nanorobots that could identify and destroy cancer cells, personalized medicine that could be customized to an individual’s specific genome, and biofuels that could be created from food industry waste.

In discussing these and other eye-opening topics, Professor Grossman always makes a point to emphasize fact and truth over fiction and hype. By the final lecture, you'll have a stronger sense of some important fundamental scientific principles being used right this moment to innovate your life. You'll also find yourself filled with a sense of excitement and wonder for both how, and how quickly, science and technology are working to make your world a better place.

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This is AUDIO

It is really frustrating to constantly hear in every lecture of an audio course, stuff like "As you can see on this map...", "Take a look at this diagram...", "This picture shows...". I can only think that the lecturers that do this are unaware of just how many people taking advantage of the courses are Audible/Audio listeners. The accompanying PDF's never include all the diagramatic material that the lecturers mention. It's very disappointing.

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