This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking audiobook runs 12.1 hours unabridged, narrated by John Allen Nelson and Khristine Hvam (about 8.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 12.1 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 20,332 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by John Allen Nelson
John Allen Nelson narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 92 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Non-Fiction shelf
1,996 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking is an audiobook by John Brockman: a 12.1-hour unabridged recording, read by John Allen Nelson and Khristine Hvam, released April 8, 2013, on the Non-Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Allen Nelson, Khristine Hvam
- Released
- April 8, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781452682501
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking audiobook?
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking runs 12.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.1 hours.
Is the This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking audiobook free?
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Who narrates This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking?
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking is narrated by John Allen Nelson and Khristine Hvam.
Is This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.1 hours, saving 4 hours.