This is exactly the kind of thing I enjoy listening to on audiobook - a little bit about a lot of topics. The structure is basically how various scientists (usually the author points out how cheerful or otherwise notable their names are) discovered various facts about the universe, our solar system, our planet, and life on it (not a lot of social or behavioral science in here).
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It's a great book, it's just a shame it's so outdated but it is over 20 years old! 
Justifies the pop-science fandom it has. 

Brilliant, informative, amusing, understandable, entertaining, fascinating.
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DID NOT FINISH: 0%

Not my thing! And I struggle with audiobooks
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Absolutely loved this book. Learnt so much!

every single book like this manages to end on a melancholy note re: extinction, climate change, & human culpability for both & honestly? we deserve it
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