Book Notes · Mind & science
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson)
Bill Bryson's 2003 tour of science from the Big Bang to humans, told through the odd people who figured it out: the size of the universe, the age of Earth, atoms, plate tectonics, life and extinction, and how much we still don't know.
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Key idea
Prereqs: none. Next: Stars & how they die; plate tectonics; cells. Sources: Bill Bryson, *A Short History of Nearly Everything* (2003; Aventis Prize 2004); ABC Science interview.Next: 1. The structure