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A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson, 2003

The universe, the earth and life, explained with curiosity and jokes.

Start here on Science Won the Aventis Prize for science books in 2004 and the EU Descartes Prize for science communication in 2005. Source: Wikipedia

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  1. Which fact made you stop and tell someone about it?
  2. Bryson writes as a curious outsider. Did that make science easier or harder to trust?
  3. What does the book suggest about how much scientists still don't know?

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