具体描述
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.
用户评价
##前半本读得有点烦躁，有时读着读着都能忘了标题是什么。断断续续读完后，被最后的"thanks to my wife..."打动了。
评分##Blinkist扫过。一本正经地胡说八道的典型，出一本书好像有点过了。超过光速这个小机灵和最后取名字那个小机灵实在有些无聊。
评分##陆陆续续看完了这本书，涉及到科学公式的部分也不是全然的晦涩难懂。在家挖个游泳池从海里取水，如何过河，作者用他的无限脑洞给我们展示了一个非常规和理性的世界，令人惊叹的是作者拿出精密的数据作为论证，而不是空口无凭的异想天开。真是个有趣的人儿。
评分##前半本读得有点烦躁，有时读着读着都能忘了标题是什么。断断续续读完后，被最后的"thanks to my wife..."打动了。
评分##机灵抖多了就腻了，大概是我老了
评分##找图书馆request的，等了好久，但终于拿到后粗略的翻了一遍，提不起兴趣，感觉本书更适合小孩子激发对科学兴趣吧。
评分##Randall Munroe下周在我校新书发布 Dussmann倾情主办 企鹅出版非常有保障 不过有些梗真的很难get到
评分##每一个章节对应一个问题，然后使用通过公式验证合理却不合常理的方式解决问题，解决问题的方式天马行空，不过有些主题有点无聊。
评分##非常好玩的书
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