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A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

• dmayle 11y ago
  I enjoyed this one, but the name is a misnomer. It's been awhile, but as I remember it, it was actually a history of history itself, or how mankind knows what it does about history
• yhager 11y ago
  This is a good one, but it's full of tedious details, and long boring sections with names you've never heard of. It's a fun book altogether, and there's high signal in there, but also high level of noise.
• aorth 11y ago
  I absolutely loved this one. I'm a programmer, but I love the history of the physical sciences like chemistry, physics, geology, etc and associated things like math. Scientists did the funniest things to find out what we know now!