Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson, author of “A Short History of Nearly Everything” (ASHONE), writes to address the public about the cosmos and space in their entirety. For an adolescent to grasp the concepts of cosmology is a virtually impossible feat. Although it is a difficult phenomenon for the ‘Average Joe’ to grasp the analytical ideas, Bryson gets the job done. Whilst the vast expanse of universe overwhelms the masses, the author manages to present the information in a masterfully lackadaisical manner. Lax as Bryson may be in his narration, all of his scientific facts relate to rudimentary examples that even the quaint can find common ground in. The chapter ‘A Lonely Planet’ discusses how slim the odds are of an organism’s existence. The typical person knows that in the vast expanse of the universe, only a select few planets have a distance perfect enough from a star to maintain life sustaining temperatures. Moreover, of those few, only a slim amount has weather that allows organisms to thrive. The universe itself must have looked upon earth with mercy for the pieces to fall into place. Even in our own planet, we can only inhabit half a percent of this very world (239, Bryson). The game of odds is a very touchy thing to play. As humans, we face death in every aspect of daily life. Steel death

The average scholar has a difficult time grasping the ideas and facts of such a complicated topic, but Bryson offers the alternative. Bryson gives us ASHONE, which gifts us the rudimentary, condensed ideas of the otherwise intimidating subject. Although this information is typically one to fear solely because of its complications, Bryson helps the mediocre to understand. Bryson presents the arduous, convoluted information in a way that even the most whimsical adolescent could process, understand, and