What's Gotten Into You
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What's Gotten Into You
| Full title | What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner |
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| Author | Dan Levitt |
| Published | 2023 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Levitt traces the atoms in a human body backwards — through last night’s dinner, the biosphere, the formation of the Earth, supernovae, the first three minutes — and tells the story of the scientists who worked each step out. Literally an answer to how the world works, assembled as a chain of discoveries rather than a list of facts. |
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @SpencrGreenberg — in the thread under his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” (June 2025). The full set of replies is on A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).
Connections
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Science — the subject.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.