1. 1 year ago 
    So I just finished this book.  My conclusion is, everything is amazing!  Written as a book about science for people that don’t like science, or just feel disenfranchised by the way it was presented to us in school, the book does a really great job of making learning about everything really interesting.  And it is about just about everything.  It covers not just the science, but the history behind the numerous scientific discoveries made in the last few centuries.  It covers everything from the Universe to the atom and everything in between.  It’s hardly a dry reference book, though.  It reads like a narrative, telling the unlikely stories behind the discoveries and the eccentric men and women who made them.  The whole thing was enrapturing to me, and all I can wish is that it was longer.  I could handle a thousand pages of this stuff. If you think we, as humans, have learned almost all there is to know in this world, after you read this you’ll realize we’ve hardly scratched the surface on the way the world works. Must read. I posted this on my other blog, but I had to repost it here for its relevance.  This is a great book for the game designer to read.  You should know a little bit about as much as you can as a designer, and this is a damn good start.

    So I just finished this book.  My conclusion is, everything is amazing!  Written as a book about science for people that don’t like science, or just feel disenfranchised by the way it was presented to us in school, the book does a really great job of making learning about everything really interesting.  And it is about just about everything.  It covers not just the science, but the history behind the numerous scientific discoveries made in the last few centuries.  It covers everything from the Universe to the atom and everything in between.  It’s hardly a dry reference book, though.  It reads like a narrative, telling the unlikely stories behind the discoveries and the eccentric men and women who made them.  The whole thing was enrapturing to me, and all I can wish is that it was longer.  I could handle a thousand pages of this stuff.

    If you think we, as humans, have learned almost all there is to know in this world, after you read this you’ll realize we’ve hardly scratched the surface on the way the world works.

    Must read.

    I posted this on my other blog, but I had to repost it here for its relevance.  This is a great book for the game designer to read.  You should know a little bit about as much as you can as a designer, and this is a damn good start.

     
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