A review by isabellarobinson7
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
3.5
Rating: 3.5 stars
A summary of this book: this is a whole bunch of stuff that happens in the world and we have no idea why. Ernest Rutherford was awesome (I already knew that but it was cool that his discoveries were mentioned comprehensively). This thing has a less chance of happening than there are atoms in existence and if it didn't happen we would be dead. New Zealand actually had a lot of scientific achievements! Here are some! (Yes! Recognition for my country! Finally! The amount of times New Zealand was mentioned made me so happy.) Here's some more stuff we don't know about. This guy was really smart but the other scientists thought he was stupid, and then they realised that they were stupid and so then they stole the guy's discovery and credited to some other dude. A science-y name that has a Greek root word (×1000000). Scientists are only pretending to know everything because they are actually quite dumb. Also, we lost a planet. And it's up to 10 times the size of Earth.
Conclusion: we must all have Mat Cauthon (from Wheel of Time)'s luck because we haven't blown everything up yet.
A summary of this book: this is a whole bunch of stuff that happens in the world and we have no idea why. Ernest Rutherford was awesome (I already knew that but it was cool that his discoveries were mentioned comprehensively). This thing has a less chance of happening than there are atoms in existence and if it didn't happen we would be dead. New Zealand actually had a lot of scientific achievements! Here are some! (Yes! Recognition for my country! Finally! The amount of times New Zealand was mentioned made me so happy.) Here's some more stuff we don't know about. This guy was really smart but the other scientists thought he was stupid, and then they realised that they were stupid and so then they stole the guy's discovery and credited to some other dude. A science-y name that has a Greek root word (×1000000). Scientists are only pretending to know everything because they are actually quite dumb. Also, we lost a planet. And it's up to 10 times the size of Earth.
Conclusion: we must all have Mat Cauthon (from Wheel of Time)'s luck because we haven't blown everything up yet.