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  1. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the first place?' It is rather as if all the ingredients in your kitchen somehow got together and baked themselves into a cake - but a cake that could moreover divide when necessary to produce more cakes. It is little wonder that we call it the miracle of life. It is also little wonder that we have barely begun to understand it.
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  2. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    In Australia and the Americas," says Tim Flannery, "the animals probably didn't know enough to run away.
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  3. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose-Timothy Ferris, Richard Fortey and Tim Flannery are three that jump out from a single station of the alphabet {and that's not even to mention the late but godlike Richard Feynman}-but,
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  4. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose-Timothy Ferris, Richard Fortey and Tim Flannery are three that jump out from a single station of the alphabet {and that's not even to mention the late but godlike Richard Feynman}-but, sadly, none of them wrote any textbook I ever used.
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    It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it. The
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  6. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    We live in a world that doesn't altogether seem to want us here.
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  7. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    22 million tonnes of such unwanted fish are dumped back in the sea each year, mostly in the form of corpses.
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  8. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it-not the stars as they are now but as they were when their light left them.
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  9. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    If we were randomly inserted into the universe," Sagan wrote, "the chances that you would be on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion.
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  10. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    further research has shown that there is or may well be a bacterial component in all kinds of other disorders46 – heart disease, asthma, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, several types of mental disorders, many cancers, even, it has been suggested {in Science no less}, obesity.
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  11. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    Goldilocks effect"-that everything is just right. {For the record, these three possible universes are known respectively as closed, open and flat.} Now,
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  12. Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly

    Travelling faster than a bullet, an incoming meteor would be moving much too swiftly to be seen, much less to provoke alarm. {Credit
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