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By: Steve Inskeep
Narrated by: Steve Inskeep
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frรฉmont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple
John C. Frรฉmont, one of the United Statesโs leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in... Read more
Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
By: Stephen B. Heard, PhD
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance.
Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes.... Read more