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 o...
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.
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, support...
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.
比如说03 How to dig a hole modern technique，翻译版说的是先进的技术，modern在词典里是没有先进这个意思的。另外现代的未必是先进的，就像书里想透露的核心思想是，所谓现代化的科技。往往也只是符合当下的经济效益而已。 再比如说，还是这一章节，As long as the rock is ...
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4 有用 夏丽芭仁 2019-10-11 03:24:25
this makes me happy. 虽然致谢最后藏了一把狗粮“书中一半儿是她教的&共同探索世界”。全程嗷嗷叫。
4 有用 花袭人出来玩啊 2020-04-10 10:53:51
没有作者前一本《What If》好玩，那本有一派天真烂漫的高兴。不过这本也很有趣，脑洞一样很大。特别喜欢“如何弹钢琴” “如何建一条熔岩护城河” “如何寄一个包裹” “如果为屋子供电” “如何准时” “如何赢得选举” 这几章，别被标题骗了，嘿嘿。
0 有用 野斑马 2020-06-25 23:40:20
脑洞很不错。唯一不满的是，读到60%多，突然就没有更多了（因为后面是references和notes……）
0 有用 沙拉勺子 2020-07-16 21:07:37
本来觉得他的书是绝好的茶几书，没想到有声书也很有意思，像听了一套podcast.
0 有用 冷月如霜 2019-10-08 12:48:04
机灵抖多了就腻了，大概是我老了
0 有用 EricD 2023-12-31 18:30:09 浙江
相信我，读英文版，笑点超过中文版10倍
0 有用 小闹钟 2023-09-26 11:17:19 美国
Let's fulfil all stereotypes of nerds of science! :p
0 有用 🐟 2023-02-26 19:50:56 英国
超喜欢这种无厘头搞笑故事
0 有用 火羽 2023-02-19 13:39:49 陕西
还是熟悉的味道，用科学讨论荒诞，用脑洞大开进行严肃科普。
0 有用 Blueberry 2022-06-24 04:10:21
非常好玩的书