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It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much vitamin C as the average person today.

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Yanamono · @sebastianlara

61 followers · 1340 posts · Server mastodon.uy

#BillBryson

Bienvenido. Y felicidades. Estoy encantado de que hayas podido conseguirlo. Llegar hasta aquí no ha sido fácil. Lo sé. Y hasta sospecho que ha sido algo más difícil de lo que crees. En primer lugar, para que estés ahora aquí, trillones de átomos errantes tuvieron que agruparse de algún modo, en una forma compleja y extrañamente servicial para
crearte. Se trata de una disposición tan especializada y particular que no se ha ensayado
nunca antes y sólo existirá esta vez.
Una breve historia de casi todo.

#billbryson

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Alex vd Brandhof · @alexvdbrandhof

83 followers · 67 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

Mijn #Priemwoestijnen is alweer bijna 5 jaar oud, maar kwam onlangs nog op een lijstje met namen als #BillBryson, #RandallMunroe, #StephenHawking, #FransdeWaal en #TeunvandeKeuken. 😲 Ben overigens een nieuw boek aan het tikken. https://www.hebban.nl/artikelen/challenge-top-10-een-populair-wetenschappelijk-boek

#teunvandekeuken #fransdewaal #stephenhawking #randallmunroe #billbryson #priemwoestijnen

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Maura Kelly · @maurack

8 followers · 14 posts · Server mastodon.social

It’s me again, reading Bill Bryson books and posting about them on Mastodon. I'm reading At Home, and I loved the anecdote about the Erie Canal. The waterway, completed in 1925, was an achievement in construction and transformed the economy of New York. Surprisingly, four amateur civil engineers with little prior experience led the successful project. Something to remember next time you're feeling out of your depth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Canal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Home:_A_Short_History_of_Private_Life
#BillBryson #books #bookstodon

#billbryson #books #bookstodon

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J. Mat B. Wilcoxson 👋 · @jmbw

44 followers · 83 posts · Server social.vivaldi.net

Just a little book review I wrote about The (spoiler: fabulous) Bill Bryson book, "One Summer: America 1927".

#ReaderCommunity
#BillBryson
https://jmbwilcoxson.wordpress.com/2023/01/07/book-review-one-summer-america-1927/

#readercommunity #billbryson

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John Stephenson · @johnstephenson

802 followers · 6 posts · Server universeodon.com

(#BillBryson was writing about #Durham: "'If you have never been to Durham, go there at once. Take my car, it's wonderful.")

#billbryson #durham

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Danie van der Merwe · @danie10

1025 followers · 8622 posts · Server mastodon.social

@tbs I only heard about him last night when reading the #BillBryson book The Road to Little Dribbling. He really deserved wider recognition and appreciation.

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Count Stex · @countstex

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Open media

My recent trip back to England was a chance to pick up some English language reading material.
I think we can call that a successful trip!
#wilwheaton #scalzi #lennyhenry #stephenfry #terrypratchett #richardegrant #billbryson

#wilwheaton #scalzi #lennyhenry #stephenfry #terrypratchett #richardegrant #billbryson

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Jenny · @tiamat271

118 followers · 1154 posts · Server mastodon.online

Each day, I try to share three things I like/enjoy/am grateful for as my contribution to a positive space. (H/T
@IanThistlethwaite)

Here’s today’s list:

1) “A Christmas Carol” by Tom Lehrer
2) NY-style pizza (extra cheese, please)
3) Books by Bill Bryson

How about you? 😊

#ReasonsToBeCheerful #Positivity
#Christmas #TomLehrer #NYPizza #BillBryson #3GoodThings @3goodthings

#3goodthings #billbryson #nypizza #tomlehrer #christmas #positivity #reasonstobecheerful

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Old British Telly · @oldbritishtelly

2011 followers · 1398 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

[1999] Notes from a Small Island - Following his successful book, American travel writer Bill Bryson sets off on a new tour of Britain. Starting at Dover, where he recalls his first disembarkation in 1973 to a land of rain, sweet tea and disagreeable land-ladies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_7dkutxGCA

#OldBritishTelly #BillBryson

#OldBritishTelly #billbryson

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NERRAD · @nerradneerg

7 followers · 12 posts · Server mindly.social

Hashtagging myself up to appeal to like minded souls: #modernhistory #culturalhistory #thecure #throwingmuses #suede #depechemode #naturism #mindfulness #Selsey #horror #forteantimes #cats #PeepShow #calvinandhobbes #billbryson and that's all I can think of for now.

#modernhistory #culturalhistory #thecure #throwingmuses #Suede #depechemode #naturism #mindfulness #selsey #horror #forteantimes #cats #PeepShow #calvinandhobbes #billbryson

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Laurie Grassi · @LaurieGrassi

29 followers · 20 posts · Server mastodon.online

Jumping on the #bookstodon bookshelf (😉) with some of my fave authors! This list is by no means definitive—how can such a list ever be!—but I admire the writing of these authors, which stays with me, and have read multiple works by each.

#KateAtkinson
#JaneAusten
#BillBryson
#HelenHumphreys
#GuyGavrielKay
#JohnLeCarré
#DeborahLevy
#RuthOzeki
#WGSebald
#AliSmith