Short Nonfiction Collection

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English · 2h 51m

"History is profuse with abuses of some of the best thoughts and discoveries that have come to the human race," according to F. T. Ives in "Cranks." Reader-chosen topics in Vol. 109 include science, exploration, innovation, and investigative reporting: Forgetfulness; Punishment and Reward; Overlearning; A Shoal of Porpoises; Dreams as Omens; Experimental Farms; Onset of a Year Without a Summer; a New Hybrid Rose; and Wild Apples. Rounding out the volume are an essay on the Tarzan Tales; a eulogy to Beethoven; and Thoreau's playful description of a kitten. Summary by Sue Anderson

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Accident on the Ice: Onset of the Year Without a Summer (1816)	9:26	Lu par Alister
AgePage: Forgetfulness, Knowing When to Ask for Help (2020)	17:50	Lu par T.Y.Lee
Coke of Norfolk (1752?-1842): Father of Experimental Farms	29:00	Lu par Steve C
Cranks: Chapter 1 of The Hollow Earth (1904)	6:09	Lu par phineas2000
Down the River of Doubt with Theodore Roosevelt (1913-1914)	10:17	Lu par Phil Schempf
Dreams as Omens and Media of Communication between Gods and Men (1891)	12:51	Lu par Public Domain Scholar
The Effect of Overlearning on Retention (1929)	12:16	Lu par Leon Harvey
The Eruption of Vesuvius: Pliny the Younger's Description (79 AD)	17:02	Lu par Thomas A. Copeland
How Burroughs Wrote the Tarzan Tales (1922)	9:34	Lu par Ben Tucker
The Kitten, from Thoreau's Journal, February 15, 1861	2:49	Lu par Sue Anderson
A New Hybrid Rose "Psyche" (1898)	1:28	Lu par Availle
A Note on the Relative Value of Punishment and Reward as Motives (1912)	11:40	Lu par Leon Harvey
Prejudices, Fifth Series: Beethoven (1926)	12:13	Lu par mkirkpat
A Shoal of Porpoises Meets its End on the Heads of Scottish Harpoons (1815)	2:44	Lu par Alister
Wild Apples (1862)	15:57	Lu par MexIrishBrian