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Munroe, Randall.
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Science -- Miscellanea.
Science -- Humor.
Problem solving -- Miscellanea.
Problem solving -- Humor.
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Munroe, Randall.
Science -- Miscellanea.
Science -- Humor.
Problem solving -- Miscellanea.
Problem solving -- Humor.
MARC Display
How
to :
absurd
scientific
advice
for
common
real-world
problems
/ Randall Munroe.
by
Munroe, Randall.
Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
Call #:
502 M968h
Subjects
Science -- Miscellanea.
Science -- Humor.
Problem solving -- Miscellanea.
Problem solving -- Humor.
ISBN:
9780525537090 (hc.)
Description:
307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [292]-299) and index.
Contents:
Introduction --
How
to jump really high --
How
to throw a pool party --
How
to dig a hole --
How
to play the piano --
How
to listen to music --
How
to make an emergency landing --
How
to cross a river --
How
to move --
How
to keep your house from moving --
How
to chase a tornado --
How
to build a lava moat --
How
to throw things --
How
to play football --
How
to predict the weather --
How
to go places --
How
to play tag --
How
to ski --
How
to mail a package --
How
to power your house (on Earth) --
How
to power your house (on Mars) --
How
to make friends --
How
to blow out birthday candles --
How
to walk a dog --
How
to send a file --
How
to charge your phone --
How
to take a selfie --
How
to catch a drone --
How
to tell if you're a Nineties Kid --
How
to win an election --
How
to decorate a tree --
How
to build a highway --
How
to get somewhere fast --
How
to be on time --
How
to dispose of this book --
How
to change a lightbulb.
Summary:
"For any task you might want to do, there’s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable 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 powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. 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 fun illustrations,
How
To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day."--From publisher.
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