Tuesday, November 15, 2011

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson


I picked this book up from the local library a few years ago, shortly after it came out. Wonderful! For the first time ever, I really felt like I really understood the relationship between physics and astronomy. The arguments for and against human evolution - not over-simplified; and dozens of bits and pieces of stuff that just made lots of random science make sense as a cohesive whole. Very, very well done.

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  1. I find Bryson to be a very engaging writer. . . I'll have to check this one out when I get a chance.

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