Randall Munroe is the author of the popular webcomic xkcd and the science question-and-answer blog What If. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006, he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full-time, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they're getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times 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 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 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 getting to your appointments on time by destroying the Moon. 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 amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
##this makes me happy. 雖然緻謝最後藏瞭一把狗糧“書中一半兒是她教的&共同探索世界”。全程嗷嗷叫。
評分 評分##腦洞很不錯。唯一不滿的是,讀到60%多,突然就沒有更多瞭(因為後麵是references和notes……)
評分 評分 評分##陸陸續續看完瞭這本書,涉及到科學公式的部分也不是全然的晦澀難懂。在傢挖個遊泳池從海裏取水,如何過河,作者用他的無限腦洞給我們展示瞭一個非常規和理性的世界,令人驚嘆的是作者拿齣精密的數據作為論證,而不是空口無憑的異想天開。真是個有趣的人兒。
評分##科普的事情,就該由科學傢來做。 科普對提高國民素質,提升居民整體知識水平是一件利國利民的大好事。功在當代,可惜利在韆鞦。作為科普學者的收益,比起作為頂尖科學傢的收益,是遠遠不如的。我們不能總指望有人能燃燒自己來發光發熱,正確的引導好的科普作品的問世,少一點寶...
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