00:00:00 introduction and other blablabla 00:15:36 part one 00:15:58 chapter 1 How to build a universe 00:40:22 chapter 2 Welcome to the solar system 01:05:20 chapter 3 The Reverend Evans's Universe 01:33:34 Two: The size of the Earth 01:33:55 chapter 4 The measure of things 02:20:28 chapter 5 The stone-breakers 02:59:28 chapter 6 Science red in tooth and claw 03:44:25 chapter 7 Elemental matters 04:23:44 Three: A new age dawns 04:24:00 chapter 8 Einstein's universe 05:08:59 chapter 9 The mighty atom 05:47:47 chapter 10 Getting the lead out 06:15:47 chapter 11 Muster Mark's quarks 06:44:57 chapter 12 The earth moves 07:15:57 Four: Dangerous planet 07:16:16 chapter 13 Bang! 08:01:03 chapter 14 The Fire below 08:42:50 chapter 15 Dangerous beauty 09:12:49 Five: Life itself 09:13:07 chapter 16 Lonely planet 09:51:37 chapter 17 Into the troposphere 10:28:10 chapter 18 The bounding main 11:11:54 chapter 19 The rise of life 11:50:48 chapter 20 Small world 12:39:31 chapter 21 Life goes on 13:14:48 chapter 22 Goodbye to all that 13:54:35 chapter 23 The richness of being 14:46:38 chapter 24 Cells 15:11:06 chapter 25 Darwin's singular notion 15:47:47 chapter 26 The stuff of life 16:34:42 Six: The road to us 16:35:03 chapter 27 Ice time 17:11:56 chapter 28 The mysterious Biped 17:57:25 chapter 29 The restless ape 18:35:34 chapter 30 Goodbye.
don't know, why the stamps starting from chapter 21 don't work and just throw you at 12:00:00, but I'm sure you know how to get to the needed chapter manualy.
I came upon this book many years ago, and it changed the way I view learning. I thought that if anybody could accrue, sort and absorb that much information, and eventually turn in all into a book, I would probably do well to read it. And I was right. Bill Bryson turned out to be one of my favorite writers "A Brief History of Everything" has been one of my favorite titles. one of my favorite writers
This was the best book I ever listened to, it was filled with so much information that generally would make my head swim, but the author wrote so clearly and made it fun. I highly recommend this to anyone with a thirst for knowledge
The book takes about 15 minutes to just have to go into mental gymnastics in disbelief to believe that everything aligns, so perfect for so long to get from the Gloup to being human, the odds of all of this being true is astounding
This video has just helped me get through the hardest time in my life. I spent eight days in the hospital, and would listen to this video to go to sleep. I never made it more than 20 minutes at a time. So very thankful to have something so familiar, and so long.
I received this book as a gift many Christmases ago, I still have it, dog eared, worn to bits with yellow, green & red post it notes sticking out of it with tiny writing on them. Its grand to be able to listen to someone reading it while I listen, eyes closed & relaxed. What a universe we live in... fascinating.
A Masterclass on how to narrate and a brilliantly researched book I've been using this as a sleep aid and still I haven't finished it, this has been going on for weeks now I keep going back to where I remember before falling asleep. Read this years ago and it's still one of my favourite. Brilliant Thank-you 👍
@@philiphoel4290 I sleep to this as well. Sometimes i hear it in my dreams and I'll remember certain lines...Sometimes I'll ask the narrator questions in my dreams but my mind makes it up (not in the book). That's just my word, not technically proof to anyone but myself lol. I only catch or remember bits and pieces, not a huge amounts.
I’m listening while gardening. Nothing better. Having a good time planting and listening to an awesome reader while expanding my horizons. Don’t know why the negativity here. Unless you have documentation to back up what you say are lies or fake, just move on. Many of us actually love this. Bill Bryson is an amazing author and is so engaging
it never occurred to me that wind is simply the air seeking equilibrium, the movement of air from a high pressure area to a low pressure area. not sure if i'm stupid, or my learning environment has been impoverished, but i'm thankful to this book for enlightening me.
I put this audiobook on every night at bedtime when my boy was born. He learned to speak in complete sentences by the time he was 16 months. And he has quite the incisive intellect.
Yeah but the book says Einstein didnt speak untill he was 3 so idk if thats a good sign for your boy 😂 just kidding my man best wishes to your kid 🎉 may he shine like our galaxy
A great book, and well narrated by William Roberts, my copy there are others I believe. One major problem that Bryson himself commented on in a radio interview when asked about updating the content. A lot of the information is out of date, we even know more now about the lives of the main historical characters than we did before. Bryson said he just didn't have the energy to research all the new development, and it was suggested that some bright young writer take the job on. The stories on everyday objects and rooms in his other great book 'At Home' however is still very relevant.
My best friend lent me the book with strong recommendations when we're having a summer vacation from college. It's such a great book. I forever thank you for this Eren. I don't know what pushed you away from me. I tried to reach out so many times. I miss you so much and I forever thank you for all the good time we had.
@@patrykmaksymowicz3567 I have it on CD and leave it in the car for long drives. I've listened to it probably 100 times over the last 14ish years. Although research has surpassed bits of it now. Eg. Bryson, and science in general knew nothing of flood basalt lava eruptions back in the 90s.
While listening one day I was surprised by a passenger jet that flew across the screen. I hadn't noticed the screen was actual footage of a skyscape somewhere and the clouds were in motion. Bill has a very keen insight into the successes and ultimately the failures of the scientific community to collaborate more effectively. This book would be great required reading for high school because it touches on such a vast body of inquiry.
True that. Bill also makes subjects more interesting than they actually are! lol. To me Chemistry and Botony are the worst whilst Geology is the most interesting.
I prefer a crackling coal fire, although thunder and rainstorms are nice background sounds too, perfect bedtime story atmosphere though the coal fire and this fellas voice is just perfect, although i end up staying awake most of the night listening lol
Read this book about 14 years ago and loved it. It makes you understand what we are and how lucky we are while seeing it through the natural environment. Highly recommended for everyone. Before I die I will read it again.
Beautiful reading voice, a traveller and horse on the 21st December journeying home on the longest of nights.Even a poem as short as this,paints a vivid picture for your imagination.
Chris H which poem are you referring to? Did I miss something, or did a previous relevant comment of someone's get deleted? Dec. 21?? We are in May right now, and it says that your comment was posted only one month ago... I'm lost. help
I listen to this nearly every night, before sleep, and during some days. I just love it! Your reading of this book is fantastic! I want to know, did you speak to the 'living' people whose voices you 'do'? Depending on my frame of mind at times, I get such a laugh, not the material, but the telling, at times, it sounds like you have your tongue firmly in your cheek. I love this book, and I love your telling of it. I try and get the word out as much as possible, I find this a very important book/reading that really needs to be listened to. I'd really like it if Bill Bryson could do an updated version, so much has changed in such a short time. Thanks again. I truly love this reading !
I accidentally discovered this book a few moments ago. I feel like someone who just found a suitcase on the street, one packed with hundred-dollar bills.
One thing learned here is that science is a process of trial and error, not a settled body of absolute and dogmatic knowledge. This is a pertinent insight lately, judging by the number of people who have proudly proclaimed they ''follow the science.''
There is no comparison between the mistakes made before vs after the scientific method. And you can rely on blind replicability. You should absolutely be proud to follow the science. Dont get it twisted.
I've read the book twice (paperback and Kindle) and now just finished the audio book. It's one of my favourite books of all time and I feel it should be read/listened to by everyone at some point in their lives.
I find this book fun and interesting. The voice reminds me of instructional cartoons from Disney I’d watch as a child. It’s too bad Bill has no knowledge of God, and or no ability to weave Him into the story. Instead we are left with empty phrases like when referencing the Big Bang theory, “We always thought you couldn’t get something from nothing, but (since there’s no Creator) I guess you can!” Also, what Bill fails to tell us is that most all of these great thinkers throughout the ages were strongly religious. And my science teachers of the present were so in awe of their fields they told me they were convinced it could only be the work of God.
@@Frettingfret I’m really enjoying the Rational Bible Series by Dennis Prager. He explains almost every verse of the five Books of Moses from the original Hebrew and cultural perspective. For me, he turned the old testament into a real “page turner”. For the New Testament, Brandon Robbins on UA-cam is just as incredible. I’ve always had an eye out for the wisdom of God, but I’ve never enjoyed it as much as with Dennis and Brandon. Maybe I just wasn’t ready to hear it until now. However, I do believe I was blessed with a divine “nudge” in this direction.
Phenomenal...bravo, bravo! exceptional adventure into a spectacular story telling, educational information and over all fun...with amazing narration!!!
I’ve read everything this author has written. I like knowing where “Chairman of the Board” comes from, or “Chest of Drawers”, or “In The Hay”, etc. Definitely worth the read. He also states that “having both poles frozen at the same time” is geologically rare. So, the fact that they are melting is the Earth getting back to normal, along with flooding all the coastal city areas which are geologically supposed to be under water. “Man exists in a small window of conditions in geologic time” .
Ancient peoples all over the world stumblimg across fossilized dinosaur skulls, especially the therapod types like Tyrannosaurus probably spawned the dragon myths that almost all cultures had. And can you imagine seing a skull as long as you are tall with banana sized steak knives for teeth and the pants shitting terror that would cause
To get from protoplasm primordial atomic globule to sentient modern upright human has required you to mutate over and over in a timely manner for an exceedingly long while. Just brilliant.
I was stuck on the side of Everest for 54 hours due to bad weather. Just a rope holding me. Believe me you start to hallucinate. Pain becomes something vague and distant. Your body shuts down. Your mind plays tricks. I will never look for discomfort ever again.
I decided to take a break at the 1 hour mark, and as if he heard my thoughts, said "we will leave that there for now and return to it much later" 59:54
Once I realized the book was humour, (eg singularity and energy = nothing, grammar such as creation, but no acknowledgement of a creator), I could get over the scientific errors and just enjoy listening.
@@freakazoid4691 Why wouldn’t? The Bible explained the science of the water cycle, the shape of the earth, the eating habits of animals, etc. in a way different from what scientists believed at the time it was written, yet the Bible was proven to be correct where it conflicted with the beliefs of scientists at the time.
Haven’t noticed anyone mention “A Walk In The Woods” by Bryson. He attempts the Appalachian Trail with a hilarious friend. The adventure is a flail and Bryson narrates it in the way you’d imagine if you pick up his sense of humor in this book. I put it a very close 2nd to A Short History.
@@trillioncrowns The narrator read it in 19 hours, I read it in 23?….the question really is, how slow do ‘you’ read? …..did you understand the sarcasm in that?🙄
@@ross-lt4mc ?… do you still run your fingers across the page and mouth the words out loud when you read Ross?… I mean how is it not possible to you to read a book in 23 hours that was narrated in 19!?
Damnit! I thought the part about "glass flow" was so cool until I found out this myth was busted within the past 10 years... then I found out that a lot of things in this book is already outdated. I guess that's to be expected...progress!
@@philarmstrong3765most likely you don’t believe in god because you were also indoctrinated. Free thinkers do not judge others for whether they believe in god, because free thinkers realize that there has yet to be anything that disproves the existence of god. Sounds like you’re a byproduct of your environment, your ideas aren’t yours
I love how the book starts. As smart as we are, we just don’t know the basics. We can recognize life, manipulate it, end it, and reproduce, but we don’t know what life is or how to create it. And from Archimedes to Einstein, we know that something cannot come from nothing. So there has to be a creator.
By listening to this book I have realized that it cant be a coincidence that we exist. There has to be a smarter being that could have possibly created all this.
Loved this. Listened while driving. Side note: I must apologise, most sincerely, to actor Dick van Dyke. I thought that no one could do a worse attempt at an accent than his in _Mary Poppins._ I was wrong. Our narrator's efforts at bringing to life a certain Australian anthropologist have surpassed those of Mr Van Dyke as the worst accent ever. 😂
Amazing! I listen while driving. In this world of drama, politics, wars, this book takes me away into the wold of cosmos , science and discovery.
Same here. My 2 hours drive from home to work is no longer a waste.😊
I hope everyone can read at least 1 book every month for our new 2024 goals ❤
00:00:00 introduction and other blablabla
00:15:36 part one
00:15:58 chapter 1 How to build a universe
00:40:22 chapter 2 Welcome to the solar system
01:05:20 chapter 3 The Reverend Evans's Universe
01:33:34 Two: The size of the Earth
01:33:55 chapter 4 The measure of things
02:20:28 chapter 5 The stone-breakers
02:59:28 chapter 6 Science red in tooth and claw
03:44:25 chapter 7 Elemental matters
04:23:44 Three: A new age dawns
04:24:00 chapter 8 Einstein's universe
05:08:59 chapter 9 The mighty atom
05:47:47 chapter 10 Getting the lead out
06:15:47 chapter 11 Muster Mark's quarks
06:44:57 chapter 12 The earth moves
07:15:57 Four: Dangerous planet
07:16:16 chapter 13 Bang!
08:01:03 chapter 14 The Fire below
08:42:50 chapter 15 Dangerous beauty
09:12:49 Five: Life itself
09:13:07 chapter 16 Lonely planet
09:51:37 chapter 17 Into the troposphere
10:28:10 chapter 18 The bounding main
11:11:54 chapter 19 The rise of life
11:50:48 chapter 20 Small world
12:39:31 chapter 21 Life goes on
13:14:48 chapter 22 Goodbye to all that
13:54:35 chapter 23 The richness of being
14:46:38 chapter 24 Cells
15:11:06 chapter 25 Darwin's singular notion
15:47:47 chapter 26 The stuff of life
16:34:42 Six: The road to us
16:35:03 chapter 27 Ice time
17:11:56 chapter 28 The mysterious Biped
17:57:25 chapter 29 The restless ape
18:35:34 chapter 30 Goodbye.
don't know, why the stamps starting from chapter 21 don't work and just throw you at 12:00:00, but I'm sure you know how to get to the needed chapter manualy.
lol.. i was just looking for this . Thank you for taking the time...
@@iharhancharuk It's Einsteins theory of time stamps. It's only looks as though it's not working from the position of somebody observing the reader. 😊
Many thanks chum.☺️👍
Your awesome man thank you!
This is absolute gold. Well narrated, informative, interesting. Absolute quality.
This is by far the best narrated audiobook I've come across. Great book & GREAT narrator.
It's good... But keep looking.
I would say there is slot left to be discovered
I came upon this book many years ago, and it changed the way I view learning. I thought that if anybody could accrue, sort and absorb that much information, and eventually turn in all into a book, I would probably do well to read it. And I was right. Bill Bryson turned out to be one of my favorite writers "A Brief History of Everything" has been one of my favorite titles.
one of my favorite writers
I do a lot of road trips . Listening to books really helps pass the hours behind the wheel. I get educated bans entertained all at once.
My sister also listens to audiobooks on trips, but I wouldn't dare. I can either focus on my driving or on the book but not both at the same time.
Not that they help while driving , but Uncle Johns Bathroom Readers are excellent educational entertaining books!
I listen to this on my phone to sleep at night.
As a Commercial truck driver, I agree. Everyday it's audiobooks and podcasts.
I get educated virgule entertained all at once.
I listened to this 30 years ago. My atoms have kept me functioning as of today with all my issues. It really is a miracle of life.
Fabulous, this is my go to audio book every night before I sleep.
Same 👍🏼
Same 6:40:02
This was the best book I ever listened to, it was filled with so much information that generally would make my head swim, but the author wrote so clearly and made it fun. I highly recommend this to anyone with a thirst for knowledge
Ads ruin it
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That's the price you pay for free.
@@barrym3651The ads are Not too bad, at least theyre short and few.
The book takes about 15 minutes to just have to go into mental gymnastics in disbelief to believe that everything aligns, so perfect for so long to get from the Gloup to being human, the odds of all of this being true is astounding
This video has just helped me get through the hardest time in my life. I spent eight days in the hospital, and would listen to this video to go to sleep. I never made it more than 20 minutes at a time. So very thankful to have something so familiar, and so long.
Didn't it carry on while you were asleep?
@@mister3566 tbh UA-cam will auto pause your video if the screen is left untouched for like 30 mins or sth
@@sumvivus6199Mine doesn't. Depends on your phones settings.
This is Bill Bryson's best book. It's wonderful, but then again all of his books are wonderful. Read (or listen) to them all.
A Walk in the Woods is also fantastic!
I received this book as a gift many Christmases ago, I still have it, dog eared, worn to bits with yellow, green & red post it notes sticking out of it with tiny writing on them.
Its grand to be able to listen to someone reading it while I listen, eyes closed & relaxed. What a universe we live in... fascinating.
The best audio book on the internet.
With Michio Kaku's "Physics of the impossible" running a close second.
Neil's astrophysics for people in a hurry is a good one as well
Thanks listening to that as well
A marvellous book with a wonderful narrator
I so agree. It would be great if Bill Bryson brought out a new updated edition. The narrator is perfection for this book
This is a great joy after having read it beforehand. It is like visiting an old friend.
A Masterclass on how to narrate and a brilliantly researched book I've been using this as a sleep aid and still I haven't finished it, this has been going on for weeks now I keep going back to where I remember before falling asleep. Read this years ago and it's still one of my favourite. Brilliant Thank-you 👍
So interesting it puts you to sleep
@O. B. It is a very interesting book all jokes aside
I do the same thing with not only this book, but many others as well.
It's been proven that you actually subconsciously learn the information.
Haha I do that
@@philiphoel4290 I sleep to this as well. Sometimes i hear it in my dreams and I'll remember certain lines...Sometimes I'll ask the narrator questions in my dreams but my mind makes it up (not in the book).
That's just my word, not technically proof to anyone but myself lol. I only catch or remember bits and pieces, not a huge amounts.
I’m listening while gardening. Nothing better. Having a good time planting and listening to an awesome reader while expanding my horizons. Don’t know why the negativity here. Unless you have documentation to back up what you say are lies or fake, just move on. Many of us actually love this. Bill Bryson is an amazing author and is so engaging
Amen .. I don’t give a crap what others say or think … if I like it , I read it and that is good enough reason ..
Decided on a whim to spend a Sunday listening to an audio book. I found this and I'm still listening six hours later. Cracking stuff.
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No way, the best book ever written on audio book free on UA-cam!!!! SAVE VID.
it never occurred to me that wind is simply the air seeking equilibrium, the movement of air from a high pressure area to a low pressure area. not sure if i'm stupid, or my learning environment has been impoverished, but i'm thankful to this book for enlightening me.
It never occurred to me that some of my carbon atoms once where a tree and my calcium once fish bones.
@@BobBeatski71 it never occurred to me that you could find the gravitational constant with nothing but time, heavy lead spheres and taut wire.
I think your learning environment was lacking. But now you can make up for it!
The best introductory book on science out there. Gives a good nod to the people involved, too (the human side).
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I put this audiobook on every night at bedtime when my boy was born. He learned to speak in complete sentences by the time he was 16 months. And he has quite the incisive intellect.
give me a break lol your son was a dribbling idiot like every other 16 month old
Me too.
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Yeah but the book says Einstein didnt speak untill he was 3 so idk if thats a good sign for your boy 😂 just kidding my man best wishes to your kid 🎉 may he shine like our galaxy
The reading is absolutely fantastic! He makes the book much more interesting. Now I am addicted to this book.
I think, but an unsure, that the narrator is actor John Glover
@@WilsonFrontier001 Incorrect
He also narrated Jurassic Park audiobook…. Wonderful
Maybe we can form a support group. I’m on my 4th listen (I listen every few years)
All Bryson´s books are fascinating. I´ve read them all!!
So much information on various subjects from one single source - I'm really happy to have listened to this audiobook. Thanks for posting this here.
A great book, and well narrated by William Roberts, my copy there are others I believe.
One major problem that Bryson himself commented on in a radio interview when asked about updating the content. A lot of the information is out of date, we even know more now about the lives of the main historical characters than we did before. Bryson said he just didn't have the energy to research all the new development, and it was suggested that some bright young writer take the job on. The stories on everyday objects and rooms in his other great book 'At Home' however is still very relevant.
third of it blown away on the path of our elders it's beautiful, see ya soon for the rest
This is amazing...the narrator is a bit captivating too. Thanks so much for sharing it all.
My favorite non fiction book of all time. I have listened to it many times over the years since it found on 19? CDs at the library.
My best friend lent me the book with strong recommendations when we're having a summer vacation from college. It's such a great book. I forever thank you for this Eren. I don't know what pushed you away from me. I tried to reach out so many times. I miss you so much and I forever thank you for all the good time we had.
Thank you. Truly I’m in awe of this complex subject delivered remarkably simply. Now that’s true genius.
I would just sit all day and listen this guy read. He makes the book 10x more interesting
No, I have the editon read by Bryson himself. It's far better than this guy's high pitched whine.
@@arthurballs9632 could you link it?
@@patrykmaksymowicz3567 I have it on CD and leave it in the car for long drives. I've listened to it probably 100 times over the last 14ish years. Although research has surpassed bits of it now. Eg. Bryson, and science in general knew nothing of flood basalt lava eruptions back in the 90s.
@@arthurballs9632 the voice pitch has been changed to avoid copyright - the original sounds much better
While listening one day I was surprised by a passenger jet that flew across the screen. I hadn't noticed the screen was actual footage of a skyscape somewhere and the clouds were in motion. Bill has a very keen insight into the successes and ultimately the failures of the scientific community to collaborate more effectively. This book would be great required reading for high school because it touches on such a vast body of inquiry.
True that. Bill also makes subjects more interesting than they actually are! lol. To me Chemistry and Botony are the worst whilst Geology is the most interesting.
I prefer a crackling coal fire, although thunder and rainstorms are nice background sounds too, perfect bedtime story atmosphere though the coal fire and this fellas voice is just perfect, although i end up staying awake most of the night listening lol
@ 56:56
15:28:33 looks like more than once :)
16:08:10
Just finished this fascinating book. Shout out to the narrator who did a superb job. 10/10
"BULLSHIT!"
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i listen to this most nights. Its my favorite audiobook!
This is one of the best books out there and they should have this is high school for people in America.
Easy listening due to an awesome narrator and well written book, so glad i stumbled on it.
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Think it's actor John Glover but I can't verify. Audible has a different narrator. 🤔
Read this book about 14 years ago and loved it. It makes you understand what we are and how lucky we are while seeing it through the natural environment. Highly recommended for everyone. Before I die I will read it again.
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I'm 24 mins in, my heads blown away a d dizzy, 😅👆
I have accidentally find this great book, thank you so much for upload, happy listenins all
I've listened to this audio book 3 times already, Such a brilliant book!
Right around 56:58 you can see a plane fly across this rolling cloud background. Well done, audiobook!
To simply be able to look into some of the things discussed and put them across to us so easily tells me bill must be one clever man.
Beautiful reading voice, a traveller and horse on the 21st December journeying home on the longest of nights.Even a poem as short as this,paints a vivid picture for your imagination.
Chris H which poem are you referring to? Did I miss something, or did a previous relevant comment of someone's get deleted? Dec. 21?? We are in May right now, and it says that your comment was posted only one month ago... I'm lost. help
Is that a Calvino reference?
@@carollevola9047 Pretty sure he's referring to Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Not sure why, must've been a mistake
@@ThatGreatGuyJesus thank you. Still came pretty much outta left field though, didn't it? For sure! Lol
I listen to this nearly every night, before sleep, and during some days. I just love it! Your reading of this book is fantastic! I want to know, did you speak to the 'living' people whose voices you 'do'? Depending on my frame of mind at times, I get such a laugh, not the material, but the telling, at times, it sounds like you have your tongue firmly in your cheek. I love this book, and I love your telling of it. I try and get the word out as much as possible, I find this a very important book/reading that really needs to be listened to. I'd really like it if Bill Bryson could do an updated version, so much has changed in such a short time.
Thanks again. I truly love this reading !
I agree!…… I fall asleep and then get to go back and hear things I missed, time after time
I do too it love the Audible slower and british
Bill Bryson is a great author.
Bill Bryson is such an entertaining and amusing writer! Great stuff.
In fact, his travel books are a hoot. I din't think he was capable of the research this book needed!
I accidentally discovered this book a few moments ago. I feel like someone who just found a suitcase on the street, one packed with hundred-dollar bills.
filled with errors
wow! i have some property in Siberia you may be interested in, this is terrible! lol…
can’t believe the many good comments; this is a waste of time, terrible
And drugs.
So many cynics posting here.
I enjoyed reading this book which is a sort of "this is the actual state of affairs" compendium of knowledge.
One thing learned here is that science is a process of trial and error, not a settled body of absolute and dogmatic knowledge. This is a pertinent insight lately, judging by the number of people who have proudly proclaimed they ''follow the science.''
There is no comparison between the mistakes made before vs after the scientific method. And you can rely on blind replicability. You should absolutely be proud to follow the science. Dont get it twisted.
@@rickwrites2612 this 👆
Thanks for taking the time to correct!
I've read the book twice (paperback and Kindle) and now just finished the audio book. It's one of my favourite books of all time and I feel it should be read/listened to by everyone at some point in their lives.
Was the primary book in my first college course of ecology and evolution. Thank You Bill Bryson.
Different channel... But same video/file...
Listening to this again... Who knows how many times... I love this book, and him as a narrator...
i have just started reading this. I have a hard back signed copy I found yesterday on top of a trash can......crazy world.
Well look at that!
Get the illustrated hardback. Its the textbook we all wished we’d had in High
School.
i didn't know an illustrated edition existed thank you
My favourite book to listen to before bed. Well researched, written, and read.
this is just for myself bc i’m going to fall asleep lol
chapter 1: 16:00
Thank You So Much for helping out so many people !
Thank You for this upload 🙏🏻 ❤
I find this book fun and interesting. The voice reminds me of instructional cartoons from Disney I’d watch as a child.
It’s too bad Bill has no knowledge of God, and or no ability to weave Him into the story. Instead we are left with empty phrases like when referencing the Big Bang theory, “We always thought you couldn’t get something from nothing, but (since there’s no Creator) I guess you can!”
Also, what Bill fails to tell us is that most all of these great thinkers throughout the ages were strongly religious. And my science teachers of the present were so in awe of their fields they told me they were convinced it could only be the work of God.
Reading this book finally made me believe that science backs the evidence of God
@@Frettingfret I’m really enjoying the Rational Bible Series by Dennis Prager. He explains almost every verse of the five Books of Moses from the original Hebrew and cultural perspective. For me, he turned the old testament into a real “page turner”.
For the New Testament, Brandon Robbins on UA-cam is just as incredible.
I’ve always had an eye out for the wisdom of God, but I’ve never enjoyed it as much as with Dennis and Brandon. Maybe I just wasn’t ready to hear it until now. However, I do believe I was blessed with a divine “nudge” in this direction.
Great narrator. Great content. Top shelf.
What a fun audio book!So glad I decided to listen to it…
I’ve read the book 2 or 3 times and now look forward to listening to it.
Just finished all 18 hours
Think I've forgotten most of it already
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Most definitely my favourite popular science book.
Would like to see an updated version or even a sequel as so much has been discovered since the early 2000's.
Amazing book…I highly recommend this
Astonishingly informative at times , hilariously funny at others. Intensely interesting the entire way !!
Phenomenal...bravo, bravo!
exceptional adventure into a spectacular story telling, educational information and over all fun...with amazing narration!!!
I’ve read everything this author has written. I like knowing where “Chairman of the Board” comes from, or “Chest of Drawers”, or “In The Hay”, etc. Definitely worth the read. He also states that “having both poles frozen at the same time” is geologically rare. So, the fact that they are melting is the Earth getting back to normal, along with flooding all the coastal city areas which are geologically supposed to be under water. “Man exists in a small window of conditions in geologic time” .
Sooo... normal for the world, but not the world to which we're adapted... not to mention losing land to desertification, flooding by the sea etc...
@@markp6621 Man will do man in before the Earth does. Man does not move in geological time.He is a flicker, soon extinguished.
did you read the whole thing? go to 10:27:00 ish
The "This is audible" in the beginning killed me
Somewhere on the internets there’s a version of this read by a British guy with a nice tone so good
Probably the best science book for liberal arts majors ever.
I am a voracious reader. It is very enjoyable and educational to let somebody read to me while I'm at work.
To get the ladder there I'm going back to sleep and you'll have been in the face of life
Yes it is a game changer
"I am a voracious reader..."
Just sounds suspect.
@@leftyshawenuph4026 How's that?
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Ancient peoples all over the world stumblimg across fossilized dinosaur skulls, especially the therapod types like Tyrannosaurus probably spawned the dragon myths that almost all cultures had. And can you imagine seing a skull as long as you are tall with banana sized steak knives for teeth and the pants shitting terror that would cause
I read this book a good number of years ago after managing to gain temporary ownership at the good will of my sweet mother.
I really enjoyed it.
You bought your mother at a Good Will store? Nice!
Oh, sorry. I just noticed you only have temporary ownership, when do you have to return her?
@@dehydratedwater9806 You should never try use those no longer here as a source for jocular modality as it just ain't good morality.
This conversation broke my lil mind
@@BrentTheGent1
Who are you assuming is no longer here?
@@leftyshawenuph4026 Why are you assuming that i am assuming the passing of my very own mother?
I just finished reading it today. It was a very good read ❤
Best book ever.
To get from protoplasm primordial atomic globule to sentient modern upright human has required you to mutate over and over in a timely manner for an exceedingly long while. Just brilliant.
Thank you so much for this great reading.
This is ny first time lolking up audiobooks and this popped up. 😂 I actually own this book and read it last month. At least the algorithm is working.
I read this in Vietnam. It was a great vacation, but this book held most of my attention
Really glad I ran across this, really enjoyed it.
Wonderful AudioBook. Very informative and entertaining. I appreciate the upload, thank you!
I was stuck on the side of Everest for 54 hours due to bad weather. Just a rope holding me. Believe me you start to hallucinate. Pain becomes something vague and distant. Your body shuts down. Your mind plays tricks. I will never look for discomfort ever again.
I decided to take a break at the 1 hour mark, and as if he heard my thoughts, said "we will leave that there for now and return to it much later"
59:54
...well, did you?
Once I realized the book was humour, (eg singularity and energy = nothing, grammar such as creation, but no acknowledgement of a creator), I could get over the scientific errors and just enjoy listening.
Why would a book about science mention a creator?
@@freakazoid4691 Why wouldn’t? The Bible explained the science of the water cycle, the shape of the earth, the eating habits of animals, etc. in a way different from what scientists believed at the time it was written, yet the Bible was proven to be correct where it conflicted with the beliefs of scientists at the time.
Haven’t noticed anyone mention “A Walk In The Woods” by Bryson. He attempts the Appalachian Trail with a hilarious friend. The adventure is a flail and Bryson narrates it in the way you’d imagine if you pick up his sense of humor in this book. I put it a very close 2nd to A Short History.
Agreed, it is a brilliant book.
Will have to check it out ☺️
His best book 📖 imo …..never laughed so much
It's a classic. "What's your star sign?" "Cunnlingus..." Best line in the whole book.
He also did A Sunburned Country about his trip to Australia. Having been there made it extra funny!
Thank you 😊🫶
An excellent book.. read it in one sitting from London to Sydney in 23 hours..
Are you serious? Audio or read? Ur a crazy fast reader! How many pages per min? Did you even understand it?
@@trillioncrowns The narrator read it in 19 hours, I read it in 23?….the question really is, how slow do ‘you’ read? …..did you understand the sarcasm in that?🙄
No you didn’t
@@ross-lt4mc ?… do you still run your fingers across the page and mouth the words out loud when you read Ross?… I mean how is it not possible to you to read a book in 23 hours that was narrated in 19!?
@@Alienalloy hes full of it! he fell a sleep and had daydreams through 95% of the readings
Christopher Timothy and All Creatures Great and Small et al. What a voice.
What an absolutely captivating read and amazing reader! Thank You!
Who is the reader? Bryson?
Damnit! I thought the part about "glass flow" was so cool until I found out this myth was busted within the past 10 years... then I found out that a lot of things in this book is already outdated. I guess that's to be expected...progress!
8:12:42, moving left to right you will see the jet.
You sir are man of the year!
Everything that came before 32:30 is why i beliebe in God
More likely you believe in god because you were cullturally indoctrinated and never developed critical thiking skills.
@@philarmstrong3765most likely you don’t believe in god because you were also indoctrinated. Free thinkers do not judge others for whether they believe in god, because free thinkers realize that there has yet to be anything that disproves the existence of god. Sounds like you’re a byproduct of your environment, your ideas aren’t yours
I read this book yrs back while in prison....I looked forward to get locked in my cell so I could continue reading.....
Count time.....
Im in prison now reading it.
First Degree Murder.
U jelly?
@@JoelSonofJackActually he was doing pretty much the opposite
@@mattc825 I think the joke was that he couldn't read because it was time for count.
@@notsocrates9529 Thanks! I get it now!
I love how the book starts.
As smart as we are, we just don’t know the basics. We can recognize life, manipulate it, end it, and reproduce, but we don’t know what life is or how to create it.
And from Archimedes to Einstein, we know that something cannot come from nothing. So there has to be a creator.
Thanks for the audiobook
And the incessant adverts that ruin the flow?? 🙏
@@DaveSCameron ummm no I had zero adverts. YT Premium is the way to go. The only way to get rid of adverts on your end is to demonitize it.
@@terranhealer
He’s always the troll who shows up to gripe if you let him in. Ignore him.
@@DaveSCameron lmao bro wtf is with the pray hands
@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 Says the person using anonymous title, attacking other comments, are you even aware of the definition? 🙏
Loved this book. Glad I found this
By listening to this book I have realized that it cant be a coincidence that we exist. There has to be a smarter being that could have possibly created all this.
Then there has to be an even smarter being that created that being. And so on.
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Loved this. Listened while driving.
Side note: I must apologise, most sincerely, to actor Dick van Dyke. I thought that no one could do a worse attempt at an accent than his in _Mary Poppins._ I was wrong. Our narrator's efforts at bringing to life a certain Australian anthropologist have surpassed those of Mr Van Dyke as the worst accent ever. 😂