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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

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When we die our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere—as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew. A few editions in audiobook form are also available, including an abridged version read by the author, and at least three unabridged versions. Her lab books are kept in lead-lined boxes and those who wish to see them must put on protective clothing. Bill Bryson’s own fascination with science began with a battered old school book he had when he was about ten or eleven years old.

A Short History deviates from Bryson's popular travel book genre, instead describing general sciences such as chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics. The book received generally favourable reviews, with reviewers citing the book as informative, well-written, and entertaining. It’s a slightly troubling fact that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.It is also fun in many ways, using humor and illustrations to explore a topic and make learning interesting. The idea of lots of startled cars and people falling off the edge of that sudden cliff (and 4,000 miles is a pretty long way to fall) was what grabbed him in the beginning, but gradually his attention turned to what the picture was trying to teach him: namely that Earth’s interior is made up of several different layers of materials, and at the very centre is a glowing sphere of iron and nickel, as hot as the Sun’s surface, according to the caption. I was aware that this is an abridged, illustrated and watered down version of A Short History of Nearly Everything, targeted at a younger audience.

Ook hun karakter, anekdotes en hun onderzoek wordt op een toegankelijke manier beschreven ook geschikt voor niet-wetenschappers.Some of it was, of course, and even if some things were vaguely familiar, I've never fully understood them, so it was good to have a simple, concise introduction to them. So when the YA version caught my eye, I jumped to the chance to learn stuff about nearly everything again. Everyone needs more understanding of the world around us and the history of science is sadly neglected in our schools ('much more important than the history of monarchs).

The atom: Ever atom is mode from three kinds of particles - Protons, which have a positive electrical charge; Electrons, which have a negative electrical charge; And neutrons, which have no charge” Which makes me think of what one granddaughter (almost 4 years old) would ask me, “What makes up a Protons? Uncover the mysteries of time, space and life on earth in this extraordinary book – a journey from the centre of the planet, to the dawn of the dinosaurs, and everything in between. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. A Short History of Nearly Everything by American-British author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject. It was one of the bestselling popular science books of 2005 in the United Kingdom, selling over 300,000 copies.

Few books have been as influential on my life as Bill Bryson’s A Very Brief History of Nearly Everything. Se trata de un libro que efectivamente nos habla de casi todo en la historia del planeta y la humanidad, de forma sencilla y clara. A Short History of Nearly Everything was lauded with critical acclaim, and became a huge bestseller.

And of course Google is always there, there's no excuse to be uninformed and/or anti-science nowadays.The illustrations and summary pages at the end of each section helped and the finally summing up; "we should be custodians not pillagers of our planet", had them suitably upset by the current rate of extinction and the risks of global warming. However, I was delighted to find that, apart from standing by itself as a nice little general science introduction book, this more colourful version is also like a nice little summary to the meatier original travelogue to science.

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