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.
##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##Blinkist掃過。一本正經地鬍說八道的典型,齣一本書好像有點過瞭。超過光速這個小機靈和最後取名字那個小機靈實在有些無聊。
評分##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##總是說, 問齣正確的問題比找到問題的解答更重要. 這本書裏都是平凡的問題, 作者隻是不認為“這就是唯一的解答瞭嗎?”
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##前半本讀得有點煩躁,有時讀著讀著都能忘瞭標題是什麼。斷斷續續讀完後,被最後的"thanks to my wife..."打動瞭。
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##以一些基本物理規律和小計算為基礎的腦洞大開小甜品,火柴人配圖也很可愛,但是看過幾篇之後就審美疲勞瞭,最後在一半多棄瞭。忘瞭標記?2021-1-2 to 2021-1-24
評分##總是說, 問齣正確的問題比找到問題的解答更重要. 這本書裏都是平凡的問題, 作者隻是不認為“這就是唯一的解答瞭嗎?”
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