Reading this book will have increased the amount of ordered information in your brain. However, during the same time, the heat released by your body will have had a much greater effect increasing the disorder in the rest of the universe: about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain. I suggest you stop reading now.

I’ve been reading (very slowly) An Illustrated A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. It’s astonishing how accessible he’s made some of the most complicated scientific ideas in history, and he has a brilliant sense of humour to support it.

Look at this distinctly Python-esque illustration, which, in the context of the book, sounds more like a suggestion than a hypothesis:

It may be the best illustration ever.

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