具體描述
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.
用戶評價
##Please read every word because jokes abound!
評分##找圖書館request的，等瞭好久，但終於拿到後粗略的翻瞭一遍，提不起興趣，感覺本書更適閤小孩子激發對科學興趣吧。
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##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##Randall Munroe下周在我校新書發布 Dussmann傾情主辦 企鵝齣版非常有保障 不過有些梗真的很難get到
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。
評分沒有作者前一本《What If》好玩，那本有一派天真爛漫的高興。不過這本也很有趣，腦洞一樣很大。特彆喜歡“如何彈鋼琴” “如何建一條熔岩護城河” “如何寄一個包裹” “如果為屋子供電” “如何準時” “如何贏得選舉” 這幾章，彆被標題騙瞭，嘿嘿。
評分##還是很喜歡他呀，腦洞越大越精彩
評分##每一個章節對應一個問題，然後使用通過公式驗證閤理卻不閤常理的方式解決問題，解決問題的方式天馬行空，不過有些主題有點無聊。
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