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.
##作者用各種無厘頭但有充分科學依據的方法來解決日常問題,絕對可以當選“搞笑工程院”院士。喜歡看《The Big Bang Theory》的人大概也會對這本書感興趣。 除瞭跟著作者開腦洞之外,還能學到不少有用或無用的奇怪的知識,當然,大部分是無用的哈哈。比如: 1、真空挖掘機技術(...
評分 評分 評分 評分 評分##很多年前流行著一句小品颱詞:“問,把大象放冰箱,分幾步?”“分幾步?”“你這都不知道嗎?分三步啊,先把冰箱門打開,把大象放進去,再把冰箱門帶上。”當時颱下掌聲雷動,大傢都覺得這個段子妙極瞭。但這個問題如果放到蘭道爾·門羅這本《如何不切實際地解決實際問題》裏...
評分##作者用各種無厘頭但有充分科學依據的方法來解決日常問題,絕對可以當選“搞笑工程院”院士。喜歡看《The Big Bang Theory》的人大概也會對這本書感興趣。 除瞭跟著作者開腦洞之外,還能學到不少有用或無用的奇怪的知識,當然,大部分是無用的哈哈。比如: 1、真空挖掘機技術(...
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