The Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonÂ
Read by Richard Matthews
Take-home messages:
- Hell hath no fury as two scientists bickering.
- Science consists of scientists bickering, feuding, and/or driving each other into obscurity or suicide.
- In the large scheme of things, the existence of humanity is a monumental accident and a rather fleeting millisecond.
- People are really rather terrible.
- People are really rather terrible for the planet.