{"id":1663,"date":"2010-05-17T09:34:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2012-11-12T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T01:47:08","slug":"a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-by-bill-bryson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2010\/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-by-bill-bryson","title":{"rendered":"A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1666 alignleft\" title=\"a-short-history-of-nearly-everything\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"250\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything\" target=\"_blank\">A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/a><br \/>\nBill Bryson (2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just finished reading this delightful survey of modern scientific thought and the history of how we got here. Some of the biographical vignettes are truly inspiring, and others heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>I found only one area where recent discovery has\u00a0superseded\u00a0his account\u2014so called &#8220;junk&#8221; DNA. It is now known that these areas perform important regulatory functions and are anything but junk!<\/p>\n<p>This book should be required reading by every high school senior or college freshman! It does more to explicate science and scientists than any watered-down textbook ever could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson (2004) Just finished reading this delightful survey of modern scientific thought and the history of how we got here. Some of the biographical vignettes are truly inspiring, and others heartbreaking. I found only one area where recent discovery has\u00a0superseded\u00a0his account\u2014so called &#8220;junk&#8221; DNA. It is now known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2010\/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-by-bill-bryson\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-people","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}