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Bill Bryson

The Body

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Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.
Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body—how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you, in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, “We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted.” The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively…
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    It is divided into two hemispheres, each of which is principally concerned with one side of the body, but for reasons unknown the wiring is crossed, so that the right side of the cerebrum controls the left side of the body and vice versa. The two hemispheres are connected by a band of fibers called the corpus callosum (meaning “tough material” or literally “calloused body” in Latin). The brain is wrinkled by deep fissures known as sulci and ridges called gyri, which give it more surface area. The exact pattern of grooves and ridges in brains is distinctive to each individual—as distinctive as your fingerprints—but whether it has anything to do with your intelligence or temperament or anything else that defines you is unknown.

    Parts of brain 2 and goes on

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    E. coli can reproduce seventy-two times in a day, which means that in three days they can rack up as many new generations as we have managed in the whole of human history.

    E. Coli generations

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    Curiously, we don’t have any receptors for wetness. We have only thermal sensors to guide us, which is why when you sit down on a wet spot, you can’t generally tell whether it really is wet or just cold.

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