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.
这是一本坏点子合集!作者针对一些稀松平常的问题,却用了很脑洞的方式进行回答。比如如何过河?如何搬家?如何弹钢琴?如何降落……这些问题看似很白痴,但是实际上作者通过开脑洞,刷新了我们对身处的世界和自然的认知,甚至通过这些天马行空的思考和讨论,也让我们学习到了...
评分 评分##作者用各种无厘头但有充分科学依据的方法来解决日常问题,绝对可以当选“搞笑工程院”院士。喜欢看《The Big Bang Theory》的人大概也会对这本书感兴趣。 除了跟着作者开脑洞之外,还能学到不少有用或无用的奇怪的知识,当然,大部分是无用的哈哈。比如: 1、真空挖掘机技术(...
评分 评分##科普的事情,就该由科学家来做。 科普对提高国民素质,提升居民整体知识水平是一件利国利民的大好事。功在当代,可惜利在千秋。作为科普学者的收益,比起作为顶尖科学家的收益,是远远不如的。我们不能总指望有人能燃烧自己来发光发热,正确的引导好的科普作品的问世,少一点宝...
评分##在茫茫书海中,什么样的书才能第一时间抓住读者的眼球?恐怕最有效的就是一个好的书名吧。这一点,兰道尔·门罗的最新作品《如何不切实际地解决实际问题》可以说很好地做到了! 美国科普类畅销书作家兰道尔·门罗(Randall Munroe)本身就很传奇:他曾在NASA工作,参与制造机器人...
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