New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-button Fluff
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071JW5LQQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 199 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why your keyboard is laid out in QWERTY (it's not to make it easier to type) or whether the invention of the wheel was less important to civilisation than the bag (think about it)? New Scientist does. Does Anything Eat Wasps? meets Information Is Beautiful: a journey through life, the universe and everything. And now they want to take you on a whistle-stop journey from the start of our universe (through the history of stars, galaxies, meteorites, the moon and dark energy) to our planet (through oceans and weather to oil) and life (through dinosaurs to emotions and sex) to civilisation (from cities to alcohol and cooking) and knowledge (from alphabets to alchemy), ending up with tech
- the "lack of" format is exactly what I like about the book As opposed to the one star reviews - the "lack of" format is exactly what I like about the book.I can open it to any page and find something of interest - If not on THAT page - then the very next page will be of significant interest.Having only lived on this planet for 87 years - I'm still quite interested to learn new things.. Poorly formatted Karma I was excited to read this book, but the format made it unreadable, more like a shrunken magazine page. If this is fixed I will try again. Don't buy it in Kindle format given the combined two page visuals! Brad Revell Have you ever read an article from New Scientist either in print form or since they released articles on the Internet from 1996 onwards? Take the best of their publication over the many decades and combine into a book with meaningful illustrations and you have "The Origin of (almost) Everything". When I found out that "The Origin of (Almost) Everything" was being compiled I was excited to get my hands on it and read articles explaining some of the many interesting and complex aspects surrounding our lives.I bought the Kindle version and after