Everything All at Once: How to Think Like a Science Guy, Solve Any Problem, and Make a Better World

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Harmony/Rodale/Convergent, Nov 20, 2018 - Science - 384 pages
In the New York Times bestseller Everything All at Once, Bill Nye shows you how thinking like a nerd is the key to changing yourself and the world around you.

Everyone has an inner nerd just waiting to be awakened by the right passion. In Everything All at Once, Bill Nye will help you find yours. With his call to arms, he wants you to examine every detail of the most difficult problems that look unsolvable—that is, until you find the solution. Bill shows you how to develop critical thinking skills and create change, using his “everything all at once” approach that leaves no stone unturned.

Whether addressing climate change, the future of our society as a whole, or personal success, or stripping away the mystery of fire walking, there are certain strategies that get results: looking at the world with relentless curiosity, being driven by a desire for a better future, and being willing to take the actions needed to make change happen. He shares how he came to create this approach—starting with his Boy Scout training (it turns out that a practical understanding of science and engineering is immensely helpful in a capsizing canoe) and moving through the lessons he learned as a full-time engineer at Boeing, a stand-up comedian, CEO of The Planetary Society, and, of course, as Bill Nye The Science Guy.

This is the story of how Bill Nye became Bill Nye and how he became a champion of change and an advocate of science. It’s how he became The Science Guy. Bill teaches us that we have the power to make real change. Join him in... dare we say it... changing the world.
 

Contents

Scout Lifeguarding
16
Me Against the Rock
24
When Slide Rules Ruled
34
The First Earth Day and National Service
44
How My Parents Quit Smoking
58
Ned and the THANKS Sign
67
Why the Bow Tie?
75
Land of the Free Home of the Nerds
86
Time for Measured Urgency
226
A Mind Is a Wonderful Thing to Change
237
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
249
Are You an Imposter?
251
How High Can You Go?
261
Tragedy of the Traffic Accident
272
Cold Hard Facts of Ice
285
West Virginians and All That Coal
297

Everybody Knows Something You Dont
98
The Joy of Constraints
115
UpsideDown Pyramid of Design
131
Comedy and Me
144
Not Faking It
163
Resonating to the Nerd Beat
175
Critical Thinking Critical Filtering
188
A Vaccine Against Deception
204
Destiny Be DamnedFull Speed Ahead
216
Security Through Nerdiness
307
Think Cosmically Act Globally
317
Humans Control the Earth Nerds Should Guide the Humans
330
A Reasoners Manifesto
341
Design for a Better Future
355
Acknowledgments
365
Index
367
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Bill Nye has been the public face of science and discovery for more than twenty years. Best known as the host of Emmy Award-winning PBS/Discovery Channel show Bill Nye the Science Guy, and current host of Netflix show Bill Nye Saves the World, Nye is a science educator, mechanical engineer, and New York Times bestselling author of Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation and Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World. He is the CEO of The Planetary Society, holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, and has seven honorary doctorate degrees.

Corey S. Powell is the science editor of Aeon and former editor-in-chief of American Scientist and Discover. He is a visiting scholar at NYU's SHERP program and a writer for Popular Science and Scientific American.

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