A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

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Some parts were completely beyond them; the structure of DNA and the basics of genetics were a real struggle; I would have been better skimming over that section.

El autor lo explica todo de forma muy amena, se te hará fácil de entender aunque no domines el tema del que te habla. We generally read this book once or twice a week just before their bedtime to keep their awesome, developing minds focused on the wonders found in the world of science and discovery. And of course Google is always there, there's no excuse to be uninformed and/or anti-science nowadays. of the entire time it has been in existence, the actions we do or do not undertake will pretty much slam the book shut on "nearly everything"; thus, "a really short history" of it.

He saw exhaust coming out of a vehicle this morning on the way to the bus stop and instantly understood what air pollution was and its harmful effect on our environment and, more important, on "the animals' environment, too" because,"what the heck," he reasoned, "they [the animals] have a right to a healthy environment, too! If you burned this book now, its matter would be changed to ash and smoke, but the total amount of ‘stuff’ in the universe would be the same. I find it difficult to stick with a book when every 2 pages it feels as if you're starting something new. In The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson's hilarious first travel book, he chronicled a trip in his mother's Chevy around small town America. 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.

I can't say I understand everything perfectly, but Bryson explains it all well enough and it's never tedious. But some parts completely gripped their imagination - how often do you have conversations with your children about Newtons' Laws of Motion? Zo kun je er bijvoorbeeld achterkomen dat de opa van Darwin Josiah Wedgwood was van het bekende servies bedrijf Wedgwood. 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. 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.The fact that Mother Nature sends out hundred's of billions of tons of carbon dioxide via volcanoes and dead and decaying flora and fauna was an interesting fact I had neither heard nor considered before now. A Short History deviates from Bryson's popular travel book genre, instead describing general sciences such as chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics. Young readers, the intended audience, would also derive benefit from many of the discussions, while many others would likely leave them clueless due to the truncated explanations, for each topic is relegated to two-page spread with much of the space dedicated to illustration.

It is also fun in many ways, using humor and illustrations to explore a topic and make learning interesting.As the name says, it covers everything from cosmology to evolution, in a fantastic way that even children can understand in a way that makes sense. 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. Está bien que mezcle hechos importantes, con anécdotas curiosas y a veces irrelevantes que hacen la lectura más entretenida. Weighing in at a mere 168 pages, this is an abridged, illustrated version of his meatier and much longer book with the slightly different title. I highly recommend this as "bedtime reading" to anyone over six or seven but under twelve years of age; teens may find the information a bit too simple or uninteresting.