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How To - Absurd Scientific Advice For Common Real-World Problems (Paperback)
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How To - Absurd Scientific Advice For Common Real-World Problems (Paperback)
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The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the
brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the
million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer
Randall Munroe is . . .
'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre
'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford
'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates
'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way,
and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is
a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical
advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to
predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He
teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by
measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a
selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to
your appointments on time by destroying the moon. And if you want to
get rid of this book once you're done with it, he walks you through
your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean,
converting it to a vapour, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the
Earth's mantle, or launching it into the sun.
By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe
doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he
did so brilliantly in What If?, he invites us to explore the most
absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing
illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better
understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every
day.
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