Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe best part about A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/span> is how successful it is in making science easy and accessible to anyone. Afterall, how many non-fiction science books make it to the top of new York bestsellers? Also playing a major part, are the easy to understand explanations that barely use any scientific jargon. This is a brief account of his description of a cell – ”If you could visit a cell, you wouldn’t like it,” he says. ”Blown up to a scale at which atoms were about the size of peas, a cell itself would be a sphere roughly half a mile across, and supported by a complex framework of girders called the cytoskeleton. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nWithin it, millions upon millions of objects — some the size of basketballs, others the size of cars — would whiz about like bullets. There wouldn’t be a place you could stand without being pummeled and ripped thousands of times every second from every direction. Even for its full-time occupants the inside of a cell is a hazardous place. Each strand of DNA is on average attacked or damaged once every 8.4 seconds — 10,000 times in a day — by chemicals and other agents that whack into or carelessly slice through it, and each of these wounds must be swiftly stitched up if the cell is not to perish.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nEven though A Short History of Nearly Everything presents a very vividly painted picture of everything discussed in the book, nothing is incomprehensible or technical. Bill Bryson knows what it is like to read boring science textbooks, and he has tried his best to not make this book one of them. His witty ways of writing are a treat all along, it was like reading a science textbook and laughing all through it (a rare phenomenon).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The author of the New York bestseller – A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson is not a scientist. He’s just a master storyteller sharing his experiences of chatting and apprenticing with some of the best minds in the world. With this book, Bryson has taken up the challenge to discover, unravel and make…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[667,669,668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36903,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32406\/revisions\/36903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}