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DK Life Stories: Ada Lovelace; Helen Keller; Harriet Tubman Audiobook by Nancy Castaldo

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: DK Life Stories: Ada Lovelace; Helen Keller; Harriet TubmanCategories: Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, HistoryAuthor: Nancy CastaldoNarrator: Penelope RawlinsPublisher: DK AudioRelease date: 09-25-2020Language: Engli…

TWICM 213: Mark Kingsley on Brands in the Age of AI

Mark Kingsley, brand strategist, designer, author and founder of Malcontent, joins That’s What I Call Marketing to discuss his book "Brands in the Age of AI" and why marketers need to think much more deeply about artificial intelligence than prompts, productivity and tools. Mark’s central argument …

In Byron's Wake Audiobook by Miranda Seymour

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: In Byron's WakeCategories: Biography, Female ProtagonistAuthor: Miranda SeymourNarrator: Sandra DuncanPublisher: Audible StudiosRelease date: 02-28-2020Language: EnglishSummary:In 1815, the clever, courted and cherished Annabella…

Marylebone - Posh Streets & Dark Secrets

We'd love to hear from you! We're off to Marylebone - using the neighborhood's dark origins as a launch pad for a story of spectacular reinvention.  Our walk begins at Marble Arch, where a barely-noticed pavement plaque marks the site of Tyburn Tree - London's primary gallows for nearly six hundred…

The Vatican's Four-Hundred-Year Reading List Closes Forever

The Vatican’s Four-Hundred-Year Reading List Closes Forever On 14 June 1966, the Catholic Church quietly abolished the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, ending 409 years of official literary censorship. The Index, first published in 1557, had listed thousands of forbidden books, from Galileo’s astronom…

029 - Ada Lovelace - She Saw the Computer Before Anyone Built One

The conversation about AI and careers is almost entirely dominated by fear. And the fear is pointing in the wrong direction. In this episode we look at what AI actually changes — and what it doesn’t — through the story of Ada Lovelace. The woman who sat in a room with one of the most technically gi…

Strictly Jane Austen Episode 1: The Regency Explained — Robert Morrison on the Most Consequential Nine Years in British History

This is Episode 1 of a special six-part Jane Austen series, sponsored throughout by Strictly Jane Austen — Bath's most Austentatious travel company. We talk a lot on this show about the Regency. It's the backdrop to Jane Austen, to Bridgerton, and to a thousand romance novels and costume dramas…

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A computer in the 1800's? Listen in and let Isaac explain it.

How Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, Saw Code

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, imagined computing long before computers existed. Raised between poetry and mathematics, she recognized that machines could follow instructions, repeat processes, and manipulate symbols beyond numbers. Her notes on the Analytical Engine contained the first co…

The Tower of Babbage Audiobook by Michael Coorlim

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: The Tower of BabbageSubtitle: Galvanic CenturySeries: #6 in Galvanic CenturyCategories: Fiction, Science FictionAuthor: Michael CoorlimNarrator: Dawn HydePublisher: Michael CoorlimRelease date: 04-09-2013Language: EnglishSummary:…