Essential reading for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and felt small—or looked inside themselves and felt curious.
Bryson, a travel writer by trade, was not a scientist. He was, by his own admission, a scientific “duffer”—curious but easily intimidated. That very insecurity became the book’s greatest strength. He decided to embark on a journey to interview the world’s most brilliant scientists and ask them the questions he had always been too afraid to ask in school: How do we know how much the Earth weighs? What is inside a proton? Why do we have to die? libro una breve historia de casi todo
He also doesn’t shy away from the terrifying: asteroids, supervolcanoes, climate change, and the fact that 99.9% of all species that ever lived are now extinct. We are, he reminds us, living on borrowed time in a cozy corner of a violent universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything is more than a science book. It is a user’s manual for existence . It won the Royal Society’s Aventis Prize and has sold over two million copies for a reason: it gives you back the gift of awe. Essential reading for anyone who has ever looked
