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Solving the Black Dahlia
- By: Douglas Laux
- Narrated by: Douglas Laux
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 205
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 186
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Story4 out of 5 stars 187
In 1947, a young woman named Elizabeth Short was murdered in Los Angeles.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Big claims, doesn't deliver.
- By Shaun V. Hewitt on 17-01-22
- Solving the Black Dahlia
- By: Douglas Laux
- Narrated by: Douglas Laux
On balance ...
Reviewed: 14-04-24
It seems likely that Dr Bayley was Elizabeth's killer, though this will sit uncomfortably with many people. As discussed (briefly), in the final episode, humans are simply not built to accept the unknown (pp.) We want everything presented all neat and tidy, but life is seldom like this. While Bayley doesn't check every box, he checks enough of them to distinguish himself as the person who killed this young woman all those years ago.
I, for one, am convinced!
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Inside The Nudge Unit
- By: The Behavioural Insights Team
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Discover the fascinating and surprising world of behavioural insights. Find out how understanding the ways people really think and behave through behavioral science can help deliver a fairer society for us all. Brought to you by The Behavioural Insights Team, The Nudge Unit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hail to the makers of dairy products
- By Lee on 17-09-23
Hail to the makers of dairy products
Reviewed: 17-09-23
I've often thought that AI would be useful in offender risk assessment, and to hear it discussed on this podcast was really heartwarming.
I am not convinced that we are any more accurate at assessing high-risk and low-risk offenders than we are at under/over scoring medium-risk offenders, but the fact that AI was piloted in the custody setting shows that people may be coming around to the idea of working alongside something they probably don't really understand.
Something of a word salad, but a significant step forward.
Great show guys. Looking forward to more.
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The Black Swan Problem
- Risk Management Strategies for a World of Wild Uncertainty
- By: Hakan Jankensgård
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Renowned risk and finance expert Håkan Jankensgård delivers an extraordinary and startling discussion of how firms should navigate a world of uncertainty and unexpected events. It examines three fundamental, high-level strategies for creating resilience in the face of "black swan" risks, highly unlikely but devastating events: insurance, buffering, and flexibility.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Taleb does it again....
- By Lee on 28-12-22
- The Black Swan Problem
- Risk Management Strategies for a World of Wild Uncertainty
- By: Hakan Jankensgård
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Taleb does it again....
Reviewed: 28-12-22
What does one write about a book dedicated to the great Taleb?
Well, any review can be reduced to just two words...
READ IT!
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Irrationality
- By: Stuart Sutherland
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Why do doctors, generals, civil servants and others consistently make wrong decisions that cause enormous harm to others? Irrational beliefs and behaviours are virtually universal. In this iconoclastic book Stuart Sutherland analyses causes of irrationality and examines why we are irrational, the different kinds of irrationality, the damage it does us and the possible cures.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Topic, but this really goes on
- By Paul on 24-05-10
- Irrationality
- By: Stuart Sutherland
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
if you remain in doubt...
Reviewed: 23-10-22
after listening to this exceptional piece of literature then there's little hope for you. You are destined to inhabit your irrational world until the day you float up to your non-existent place in the clouds.
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Unmasking Autism
- The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity
- By: Devon Price
- Narrated by: Devon Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 404
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 343
Have you, a friend or family member been living with undiagnosed autism? For every visibly autistic person you meet, there are countless 'masked' people who pass as neurotypical. They don't fit the stereotypical mould of autism and are often forced by necessity to mask who they are, spending their entire lives trying to hide their autistic traits. In particular, there is evidence that autism remains significantly undiagnosed in women, people of colour, trans and gender non-conforming people, many of whom are only now starting to recognise those traits later in life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very American
- By Lulus Mummy on 12-10-22
- Unmasking Autism
- The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity
- By: Devon Price
- Narrated by: Devon Price
What can one say...
Reviewed: 17-09-22
To be invited to experience such a diverse lifestyle is a pleasure in itself, but to be invited in and to be escorted around, as one meets every type of diversity, is something else altogether.
Devon's narration is second to none. I can honestly say that this is the clearest and most concise description of something most of us will go a whole lifetime without understanding: some will probably go their whole life without even noticing its presence.
Shame on them!
Well done Devon. I enjoyed this from beginning to end. If more stars were available, you would have them.
Lee (Team PPMI)
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Gravity's Century
- From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
- By: Ron Cowen
- Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved place of gravity in quantum theory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Amber Geddes on 26-11-22
- Gravity's Century
- From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
- By: Ron Cowen
- Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
Another cracker...
Reviewed: 06-09-22
for those with even a fleeting interest in cosmology. This is well worth the listen. Grab it, keep it!
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The Brain that Changes Itself
- By: Norman Doidge
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 291
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting topic, strange focus
- By Icewraithuk on 04-05-15
- The Brain that Changes Itself
- By: Norman Doidge
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
I enjoyed this book so much...
Reviewed: 03-09-22
I went out and purchased a hard copy. There's so much relevance to my profession - criminal justice - that such reads are pivotal in understanding why people act the way they do.
An awesome read and definitely one for the bookcase.
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The Socratic Method
- A Practitioner’s Handbook
- By: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The way Socrates asks questions, and the reasons why, amount to a whole way of thinking. This is the Socratic method - one of humanity’s great achievements. More than a technique, the method is an ethic of patience, inquiry, humility, and doubt. It is an aid to better thinking, and a remedy for bad habits of mind, whether in law, politics, the classroom, or tackling life’s big questions at the kitchen table.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How applicable the teachings were to everyday life.
- By Foluso Moran on 06-05-24
- The Socratic Method
- A Practitioner’s Handbook
- By: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrated by: John Lescault
I liked it so much...
Reviewed: 24-08-22
... that I bought a hard copy.
I've been reading Plato for a number of years, and I am fairly familiar with the Socratic Method; however, I have not heard it described in such a digestible fashion before today.
I highly recommend this book, especially to those who are seriously considering taking this Method forward into their daily lives.
Brilliant, just brilliant!
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The Accidental Universe
- The World You Thought You Knew
- By: Alan Lightman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
With all the passion, curiosity, and precise yet lyrical prose that have marked his previous books, Alan Lightman here explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in science, focusing most intently on the human condition and the needs of humankind. He looks at the difficult dialogue between science and religion, the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature, the possibility that our universe is simply an accident, the manner in which modern technology has separated us from direct experience of the world, and our resistance to the view that our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific logic and laws.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Science in Context
- By Scott Seivwright on 04-05-15
- The Accidental Universe
- The World You Thought You Knew
- By: Alan Lightman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Think again...
Reviewed: 06-07-22
Much of what we take for granted is thrown into question by this book. While the opening itself is certainly irregular, the main body is extraordinary in its narrative. A definite must have for any budding evolutionary psychologist.
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The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
- By: Steve Stewart-Williams
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 94
The Ape That Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, our languages, and science? The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Starts well then drops off
- By G on 07-06-23
- The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
- By: Steve Stewart-Williams
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
Wow...
Reviewed: 29-06-22
Anyone harbouring doubts as to evolutionary theory should hear this; those that retain those same doubts after listening to this should give up upon and all further research, because nothing short of divine intervention will sway them 😏
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