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A review by lagobond
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman
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This Explains Nothing.
This book is literally the opposite of what its title would lead you to believe it is. It doesn't explain anything, or not much at all. It merely scratches the surface, or more precisely, it scratches 150 different surfaces. It reads like a series of aha moments, but they're the "hey look what I just saw in this pop-sci magazine" type of aha moments.
No real, meaningful learning experience will come of this, unless you take an idea and delve way, way deeper into books that actually have some information on whatever topic sparked your interest.
This is the science equivalent of Readers' Digest.
This book is literally the opposite of what its title would lead you to believe it is. It doesn't explain anything, or not much at all. It merely scratches the surface, or more precisely, it scratches 150 different surfaces. It reads like a series of aha moments, but they're the "hey look what I just saw in this pop-sci magazine" type of aha moments.
No real, meaningful learning experience will come of this, unless you take an idea and delve way, way deeper into books that actually have some information on whatever topic sparked your interest.
This is the science equivalent of Readers' Digest.