How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems - Randall Munroe - Books - Penguin Publishing Group - 9780593086377 - September 3, 2019
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Randall Munroe

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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

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.


320 pages

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Released September 3, 2019
ISBN13 9780593086377
Publishers Penguin Publishing Group
Pages 320
Dimensions 228 × 177 × 23 mm   ·   598 g
Language English  

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