Big Blend Radio: Absolutely Everything!
Big Blend Radio
English - May 01, 2019 23:00 - 28 minutes - 25.1 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsSociety & Culture parks and travel music and the arts history and culture family and relationships food and drink business and leadership health and self help nature and environment home and garden. Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Join Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter travel team and publishers of Big Blend Radio & TV Magazine and Parks & Travel Magazine, for Big Blend Radio with international best-selling author Christopher Lloyd who discusses his latest book, “ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING: A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots, and Other Things Too Numerous To Mention.”
An amazing rollercoaster ride through 13.8 billion years, “Absolutely Everything” offers a comprehensive narrative look at the history of Earth, from the Big Bang to the ways in which we can shape the future. The book is divided into 15 different periods and travels the globe from a legendary Chinese Empress said to have invented silk, researchers figuring out how ancient Egyptian embalmers really got the brains out of dead people, an African emperor on a gold-laden pilgrimage, T.Rex, King Tut, Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai, wars, climate change, conquistadors, revolutions, religions, computers, artificial intelligence, and more...
Featured music is “I Made Fire” by the Tall Men Group. Thank you to show sponsor SuperCamp, the world leading summer academic and life skills summer camp for teens and pre-teens.