"Origin (almost) all" is an instructive and bright book of editor of magazine New Scientist Грэма Лоутона. A preface to her was written by Stephen Хокинг. Every story is provided with magnificent graphic инфографикой. Here narrated really about an origin almost all - our Universe, planet, life, civilization, knowledge, many inventions strongly becoming in life of modern man (toilet paper, keyboard, internet). Author not only madly elevates mind reader, but also does not give to feel miserable not on a second. Did you, for example, know that one chemist three years seriously had engaged in scientific research of question, where fluff undertakes from in a belly-button?