Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
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Bill Nye
Bill Nye is a scientist, engineer, comedian, and inventor. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University where he studied under Carl Sagan, and worked on the 747 as an engineer at Boeing before creating and hosting his much-loved Emmy award-winning PBS/Discovery Channel show Bill Nye the Science Guy. He holds six Honorary Doctorate degrees from Lehigh University, Willamette University, Quinnipiac University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Goucher College, and Johns Hopkins, and teaches at Cornell regularly as a visiting professor.
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Reviews for Everything All at Once
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I would like Bill Nye to be my life coach. Really great book and got me thinking - how can I change the world? What will I do with my, maybe, 30,000 days on Earth to make it better.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm a fan of the TV show "The Big Bang Theory" and recently saw snippets of Bill Nye's appearances on that show, so when my library was selling this audiobook, I decided I would buy it to listen to while I drove. I bought it fully expecting that I was going to be arguing with Mr. Nye as I listened. I was surprised that I wasn't arguing with his thoughts as much as I thought I would be.Certainly in areas of biology/evolution, he and I hold vastly different views. I also don't agree with some of what he says Christians believe. (For example, we don't all say evolution doesn't exist--microevolution certainly does exist in the world. But do I believe all that evolution teaches--no, I don't.) I think he denigrates Ken Ham several times in the book--mostly because Mr. Ham doesn't believe the way Mr. Nye does, apparently. I enjoyed one of Mr. Nye's early (in the book) stories about physics class--and how it captured his interest. I enjoyed his stories about slide rules. (I owned one once--that my dad gave me--but never did learn to use it. I grew up in the calculator era instead, I guess.) I do think he has some good ideas about renewable energy and about how to go about changing the world.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent book. I like Nye’s writing style. A lot of what he wrote here makes sense.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Corny, nerdy, boorish and worthy of a solid 2 1/2 stars. But hey, it's Bill.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bill Nye wants us to use what he calls the Nerd Mindset to tackle the worlds big problems. The book covers topics from how to tie you shoes to the issue of Climate Change.As a Nerd born and raised, little of the book was new to me. His discussion of GMOs was well informed and detailed, and while I agree with him, there is no evidence the GMOs are dangerous in and of themselves, I regretted that he did not include any discussion on the patent law aspect of the debate, which is where my concern is.As read by the author, it was a fun read, and one of those books that lays the foundation of future rumination and ideas.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In Everything All at Once, Bill Nye describes a method of thinking that "gives us the tools to identify problems and work out solutions in he most honest, effective way we can" (pg. 360). Nye draws upon his own life's experience to show the value of this type of thinking and to argue for how we can better our world. He believes that by ensuring clean drinking water, renewably produced electricity, and universal access to the Internet, we can decrease world poverty, increase opportunity, and mitigate the effects of climate change. Nye argues for thinking like a nerd and being open to new possibilities while pursing knowledge to better one's own life and the world. He offers a Nerd Code of Conduct: "Be open and be honest. Don't pretend you know what you don't know (often a little too easy to do). Show the world as it is, rather than the way you wish it would be. Respect facts; don't deny them just because you don't like them. Move forward only after you trust your design" (pg. 174). Though Nye uses examples from his own life that draw upon his work as an engineer, he demonstrates how his concepts can be distilled into basic ways of thinking for any goal, be it making a TV show or writing the U.S. Constitution. Nye offers hope if we work together, writing, "The whole idea of 'us versus them' looks absurd when you are aware that every person alive is gravitationally held on the same 12,742-kilometer-wide wet rock hurtling through space. There's no option to go it alone. We are all on this ride together" (pg. 319). In many ways, Everything All at Once is a culmination of ideas Nye began describing in his previous two books, Undeniable and Unstoppable. While it is not necessary to have read those, prior knowledge of their content makes this book all the more meaningful.