try and keep it short or chances are you will lose it and cry

Has anyone read Bill Brysons A Short History of Everything.  It is a good book.   And it seems that lots of people are trying their hand at such efforts of similar genre.  It would have to be guessed that it would happen if one were really aware of the world of science at all these days.  The world is SO big and it is so facsinating and it is only made to seem all the more miraculous by what we discover about it and the journey that got us to this point.  Of course Man it could be said may or may not have gained greater knowledge if his paradigms at any given time in scientific history had been different, and It is certainly questionable what more we could do now if the paradigms of the now were  be different.  Now that may not be a thing so far away.  After all, as the public educates itself more and more in the sciences all on their own,  there is a push to do so in less intrusive ways.  This is due mainly to the discovery that isolation of our objects of study in many ways have been shown to tell us less than we thought than if we were to study them in relation to the environment in which they situate themselves.  Also because we have learned that (and much to the thanks of Thomas Khun who's book The history of Scientific Revolutions had a start in our  pricking up our ears) Scientist are not near as objective as they make them selves out to be.  And scientists are being humbled before nature like no time before in history as well.  Also we are coming to note that there are some big deficits in our knowledge about certain,...one would think to be extremely important....issues.   Like why do we know so little about love?  And why has no one tryed their had at finding more about it?  And why do we know so little about sleep? 1/3rd of our lives is occupied by it.   Also why did anyone ever decide that subjects of study were intities seperate unto themselves and that one or the other didn't have much to do with another when common sense tells you this is simply nonsense yet our children still come home asking such questions ( you think school would answer this as a matter of course) why do we need to learn about history or math or.......?  Also one hears preposterous things like..... thats is religion and this is scientific.  Well if they don't match to some degree doesn't that put one in a bit of a quandary and wouldn't we put more effort finding out why there are so many religions (thousands if not more if you include individual denominations) and yet so few mainstream scientific positions.