First of all, I would like to encourage everyone to try audible.com. It's amazing. I just go running or draw or eat lunch or clean my room (you know, on the rare occasion when that happens) and I get smarter at the same time. It's amazing. I get so anxious to go on long runs because it gives me time to "read" so much. When I went running yesterday I listened to all the latest information in the science world, like stuff about diseases, the Korean research and bio ethics. I'm finishing up Bill Bryson's A History of Nearly Everything, which is very interesting and then I'll be starting Mere Christianity, which I've been trying to read forever but haven't yet.
I'm going to try and blog more often about things that I read for 3 main purposes:
1. try and get myself to retain more of what I read
2. enlighten others with interesting (or semi-interesting to not-so-interesting) knowledge
3. I bet there's some other reason I haven't figured out yet and 2 is just too small to make a list
So today I listened to more of Bill Bryson's a history of nearly everything, about what the world was like 400 million years ago and all these different time periods I've never heard of. 99.9% of all species that have existed on earth are now extinct. Scientist think there has been anywhere from 30 million different species to 4,000 million. The bones in the museums are mostly all just plaster casts, even in NY and London. Species learned how to fly to avoid getting eaten. There have been 5 major time periods of extinction. There were once guinea pigs the size of rhinos and rhinos the size of two story houses.
1. try and get myself to retain more of what I read
2. enlighten others with interesting (or semi-interesting to not-so-interesting) knowledge
3. I bet there's some other reason I haven't figured out yet and 2 is just too small to make a list
So today I listened to more of Bill Bryson's a history of nearly everything, about what the world was like 400 million years ago and all these different time periods I've never heard of. 99.9% of all species that have existed on earth are now extinct. Scientist think there has been anywhere from 30 million different species to 4,000 million. The bones in the museums are mostly all just plaster casts, even in NY and London. Species learned how to fly to avoid getting eaten. There have been 5 major time periods of extinction. There were once guinea pigs the size of rhinos and rhinos the size of two story houses.
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