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
##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##如果你曾经爱过一档名叫mythbusters的节目…
评分##Please read every word because jokes abound!
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##Please read every word because jokes abound!
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##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##Please read every word because jokes abound!
评分##cute little book, would have been more intriguing if more inspiring
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