The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (Audiobook, MP3)
Over the past few decades, a handful of scientists have been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only four percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every star and planet. The rest is completely unknown. Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of the quest to find this ''dark'' matter and an even more bizarre substance called ''dark energy.'' This is perhaps the greatest mystery in all of science, and solving it will bring fame, funding, and certainly a Nobel Prize.
Whatever held you back in the past can be gone. You can whisk away outdated beliefs and easily install new, positive beliefs that create a lifetime of "yes I can" possibilities. You are capable of getting a new job, writing better, skiing, PhotoReading, giving a speech, selling, finding love, and more. Successful people strongly believe in their ability to perform.
Life, on the Line: A Chefs Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat (Audiobook, MP3)
In this curious memoir, chef Achatz and his business partner, Kokonas tell of their Chicago restaurant, Alinea, as well as his cancer diagnosis and recovery. Achatz grew up in Michigan in and around restaurants, the only child of a troubled marriage who spent an otherwise contented adolescence around kitchens. He eventually attended the Culinary Institute of America and studied with Charlie Trotter and Thomas Keller with whom he began developing both his palate and culinary vision.
Charlatan: Americas Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam (Audiobook, MP3)
Witness the rise and fall of the greatest medical con man of all time in this enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men. John Brinkley, who grew up poor in rural North Carolina but attended Rush Medical College in Chicago, got his start touring as a medicine man hawking miracle tonics and became famous for transplanting goat testicles into impotent men. Brinkley built his own radio station in 1923, hustling his pseudoscience over the airwaves and giving an outlet to astrologers and country music.
Unlocking Your Intuitive Power: How to Read the Energy of Anything (Audiobook, MP3)
Laura Alden Kamm has been described as a "walking MRI" for the accuracy of her medical intuition. She is the author of Intuitive Wellness and the founder and director of The Center for Applied Energy Medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona. This audio learning course contains six CDs, runs five-and-three-quarters hours, and has a 34-page study guide. Kamm has stated: "Intuition is both an insight from beyond the analytical level and a vehicle that allows us to tap into the collective unconscious. It's the ability to ask a direct question and receive a direct answer from a source we are all connected to. That's the magic of it. And everybody has the ability to do that. Everybody does."
