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Four guided audios in my voice, a workbook with every practice and the book’s plates in full color, and the whole book’s evidence on a single page. Tell me where to send them, and you can download everything right away.
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Four guided audios, in my voice
Some practices are easier with your hands free and your eyes off the page
Each audio walks you through a practice from the book in real time, with the pauses where you need them. Use headphones if you can, except near traffic.
The strawberry DNA experiment, step by step, with the waiting times built in, so your hands can stay busy.
The first hour of the morning, outside: light, green, and sound, as Chapters 10, 11, and 12 describe them.
A walk through your rooms as the evening begins: the lamps, the four questions from Chapter 14, and the two-minute notebook.
Sets up the night recording from Chapter 12, protects the bedroom, and fits your earplugs with you.
The Listening Workbook
Every practice, ready to print
The book explains why your surroundings reach your genes. The workbook is for trying it at home, with a pen.
- All 15 practices and 8 Try It at Home sheets from the book, with room to write
- Logging sheets for your light, your noise, and your green
- The book’s plates and figures in full color
- Four new exercises you won’t find in the book: a Home Audit, your Sensitivity Map, the Headline Card, and a Thirty-Day Plan
DNA in Your Kitchen: pull a white thread of DNA out of a few strawberries.
Your Sensitivity Map: what overloads you and what restores you, channel by channel.
A Thirty-Day Plan: one small change to your surroundings at a time, and a way to see what it does.
The Evidence Map
What is known, and what is still a hope
Every claim graded in the book, gathered on a single page: 79 claims from 14 chapters, sorted into the book’s four seals. Read across a row to see what a chapter can promise, and what it can’t.
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The book
The Listening Genome
How Light, Noise, Nature and Love Shape Our Genes, and the New Science of Why We Are All Sensitive to Our Environment, Some More Than Others
Your surroundings are always talking to your genes. This book follows the signal from your eyes, ears, and skin all the way down to the switches on your DNA, and asks why some of us hear it louder than others. Every claim carries one of four seals, so you always know how sure science is.
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About the author
Christian Duarte, PhD
Christian Duarte is a molecular biologist with a PhD in social sciences and graduate training in biomedicine, neuroscience, and clinical genetics. He has done research at Spain’s National Center for Biotechnology and at IMDEA Nanoscience. For nearly a decade he taught research methodology and scientific writing at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid: his job, literally, was teaching students to tell a good study from one that only looks like one.
