Title text:
The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3159/
Bill Brysons books are amazing! Since you like Short History,I highly recommend At Home, also by Bryson.
Just found an epub!
I take everything he says with a grain of salt, though.
This is wise when reading or hearing anything
but then I would get salt overdose and high blood pressure
Yep. I later found inaccuracies in A Short History of Nearly Everything. Nothing that changed much, but still, I wasn’t nitpicking either.