{"id":1123,"date":"2005-01-18T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T04:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T19:54:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T23:54:47","slug":"a-short-history-of-nearly-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short History of Nearly Everything."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>I already discussed Bryson<\/a> when I got to the chapter on earthquakes, but I finally finished the entire book today (which even came as a surprise to me, as I didn’t realize that there were many, many pages of endnotes that I didn’t need to read). It’s an excellent book, and I highly recommend it. In the real world, I’ve even convinced two of my co-workers to read it.<\/p>\n

It’s immensely readable, and Bryson really covers, at a basic level, the entire of scientific history, both on a micro (atomic structure and cells) to a macro (the universe) level. But the absolutely most entertaining part were the side anectdotes about various intellectual luminaries’ lives (and intercollegiate conflicts). It turned what could have been a dry science book into, well, an entertaining science book.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Other books that I’ve finished recently include America: the Book<\/a>, which was as funny as the hype. It’s not something to sit and read all the way through, so I picked it up at random intervals when I wanted something short (and funny) to read.<\/p>\n

I’m also updating the reading list – I stopped off at the B&N today amongst my errands and bought a few more books (It’s the finish one, buy four philosophy which will prevent me from ever having nothing to read again in my life).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I already discussed Bryson when I got to the chapter on earthquakes, but I finally finished the entire book today (which even came as a surprise to me, as I didn’t realize that there were many, many pages of endnotes that I didn’t need to read). It’s an excellent book, and I highly recommend it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-i7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}