| I just finished reading (actually, listening to) a | | | | scientific endeavor. |
| scientific book by Bill Bryson, someone I knew | | | | Reading this book is like wandering through |
| nothing about, on a subject that has been - for | | | | history, somewhat haphazardly, though did I grow |
| most of my life - a kind of love/hate relationship. | | | | tired or bored. It's just so enchanting, how divisive |
| If you want to read a book full of complex | | | | people were (are), and how an individual's life can |
| scientific and mathematical computations, where | | | | be summed up in a single sentence, leaving you |
| its companion title being an unabridged dictionary, | | | | wondering what else there was. I think this is why |
| look elsewhere. A Short History of Nearly | | | | I chose history as my specialty in both my |
| Everything is a book for the rest of us. For all of | | | | undergraduate degree, and now as a graduate |
| us. | | | | student. I am in awe of people who come before |
| I've always loved learning about science, but not | | | | me, and now only exist through pictures, remains |
| necessarily doing science. At least, not what I was | | | | and through the written record. This book seems |
| exposed to as a student K-12 in the American | | | | to capture the exhilaration I feel. |
| public school system. But this book captivated my | | | | If you are even remotely interested in scientific |
| attention before I finished the first chapter and I | | | | topics, this book is a must read. It has re-sparked |
| became engrossed and fascinated with the | | | | my love of scientific discovery and enlivened in |
| shocking, if not often, hilarious accounts Bryson | | | | me a renewed desire to learn more on the |
| describes concerning the history of human | | | | subject. |