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How To : Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe (2019, Hardcover)

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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "How To will make you laugh as you learn...With How To , you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To ." -- CNET " How To ] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend." --Simone Giertz The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, a fun-for-all holiday gift, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable 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 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the 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 vapor, 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? , Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun 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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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525537090
ISBN-13
9780525537090
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038659563

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Book Title
How to : Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Author
Randall Munroe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Form / Trivia, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, General, Essays, Physics / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Education, Science, Humor
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
7.2in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Q173.M962 2019
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"The creator of the popular, extremely excellent and not a little nerdy webcomic 'xkcd' cleverly illustrates a guide of complicated solutions to simple tasks, thinking up Rube Goldbergian solutions to tasks as common as digging a hole." --USA Today "[ How To ] tackles problems from the mundane--such as how to move to a new house--to those that may trouble a mad scientist building her first lava moat. The solutions are often hilariously, and purposefully, absurd. Embedded in these solutions, however, is solid scientific, engineering, and experimental understanding . . . [for] anyone who appreciates science-based, but Rube Goldberg-esque, solutions to life's problems." --Science Magazine "How To is a pure delight, a salty-sweet mixture of hard science and bonkers whimsy." -- BoingBoing "A brilliant provocation of a book: clamber in for a wild ride." --Nature "A witty, educational examination of 'unusual approaches to common tasks' . . . generously laced with dry humor . . . Munroe's comic stick-figure art is an added bonus. . . . Apart from generating laughter, the book also manages to achieve his serious objective: to get his audience thinking." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "An enjoyable treat for fans of logic puzzles, brain hacking, kaizen, mad science, and other forms of mental stimulation." --Kirkus Reviews "Munroe (creator of the webcomic xkcd; What If?; Thing Explainer ) creates another fun series of questions and answers that explore forces, properties, and natural phenomena through pop-culture scenarios . . . With illustrated formulas that humorously explain the science behind Munroe's conjectures, this book is sure to entertain and educate thinkers from high school on up." --Library Journal " How To is a gleefully nerdy hypothetical instruction book for armchair scientists of all ages." --Booklist, Praise for What If?: "To reinvigorate your sense of cosmic wonder...breeze through former NASA scientist Munroe's lively answers--peppered with line drawings--to some pretty bizarre questions about life, the universe, and everything else...Extreme astrophysics and indecipherable chemistry have rarely been this clearly explained or this consistently hilarious."-- Entertainment Weekly "10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year" "Consistently fascinating and entertaining...Munroe leavens the hard science with whimsical touches... An illuminating handbook of methods of reasoning." -- Wall Street Journal "It's fun to watch as Munroe tackles each question and examines every possible complication with nerdy and methodical aplomb.... The delightfully demented What If? is the most fun you can have with math and science, short of becoming your own evil genius." -- Boston Globe Praise for Thing Explainer : "Brilliant...a wonderful guide for curious minds."--Bill Gates "Required reading for the curious." -- Popular Science "This book is a feast for the eyes and a party for your brain. I cannot more highly recommend that you get this for yourself, your favorite nerd, or someone who just loves beautiful drawings." -- Scientific American
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-286610
Dewey Decimal
502
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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by temp-samuJan 29, 2023
How To- Absurd Means Of Accomplishing Your Most Mundane Tasks!
Whether you are a nerd, geek, technoid, or just need a good laugh- "How To-" will fulfill your need. If you've dreamed of finishing a daunting task using the strangest yet plausible (in your mind, anyway!) means, this book could well make it possible for you!
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