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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd by Randall Munroe (Hardcover, 2019)

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This hardcover book titled "How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems" is a must-have for anyone interested in science and cartooning. Written by Randall Munroe of Xkcd, this book provides hilarious and informative insights into solving common real-world problems using scientific principles. With 320 pages, this book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn more about topics such as science, cartooning, and problem-solving. The book measures 202mm in height and 162mm in width, and weighs 450g. It was published in 2019 by John Murray Press and is available in English. This book is categorised under "Books, Comics & Magazines" and "Books".

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The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer Randall Munroe is . . . 'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 millennial 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 this 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 vapour, 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?, he 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.