a short history of nearly everything reddit

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Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. The only downside to the audiobook comes when discussing some numbers where the sheer immensity gets lost a bit without seeing it written down but it's the most minor of quibbles for a truly special text introducing reasonable intelligent science to the reasonably intelligent person.Transcript The Democrats’ Dianne Feinstein Problem The senator’s absence is at the center of a growing political crisis. This is by no means complete, but there is a surprisingly large amount covered including cosmology, geology, biology and lots of other things you hated at school because they weren't presented this clearly or interestingly. This is interspaced with tales of the people behind the discoveries (many oddballs and eccentrics). Split in fairly broad swathes by subject, he addresses what we know, what we suspect and what we thought we knew but now figure we got wrong. I highly rate this book, the writing is good, and there were times I laughed out loud, at the authors humour which kind of sneaks up on you.īill Bryson is best known for writing fun travelogues of his journeys around the world and, here, he turns the same sense of humour and writing style to this brief walk through the history of science. It rarely strays into the extremely technical or detailed, but still conveys the main thrust of the ideas.

If you're interested in the general topics I mentioned, and just want a nice, 'for the average person with an interest in science' presentation of this material, you'll thoroughly enjoy this audio book.

Even though this is probably one of the longest audio books on this site, you'll still be wanting more when it's over. But it follows a coherent path about all those little tidbits of the history of our planet, our species and our universe, that everyone should know, but most of us never bothered to investigate. The actual content is far too wide ranging to cover specifically in a short review. At first the narrator was slightly irritating, he sounds like the kind of 'crazy professor' types they get to host pop science shows for kids, but after a while he grew on me, and in the end I think it was very well narrated.

This is my favourite audio book from audible so far.

A short history of nearly everything reddit