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Originally Posted by skins
Bryson also does a great job keeping it interesting by telling stories about kooky scientists and their experiments (which seem crazy by today's standards). Marie Curie's lab book, which she used frequently, is still too radioactive for people to be directly exposed to it.
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The kooky stuff is interesting (like Thomas Midgley inventing both leaded gasoline and CFC's) but he can go on a little long about some of the personal stuff of scientists I've found. Especially in the geology section, though I find geology kind of boring anyway so maybe that was it.
On a side note all they had at the store was the illustrated version and it is way to big, like college text book size. I have to read at a table because I can't stand to hold the thing in the air for more than 20 minutes.
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Originally Posted by photon
Been listening to it, and it's pretty interesting, though not very deep, it gets some of the cosmology stuff wrong so far but otherwise entertaining.
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It is definitely meant to provide a basic understanding of concepts, if you already have most of that knowledge it won't give you with much. I found it did a good job of clarifying things like particle physics and quantum mechanics which I was still kind of foggy on.
