Munroe takes seemingly ordinary activities like skiing or taking a selfie and finds amusingly intricate methods for tackling them, illustrating each section with graphs, diagrams, and his signature stick figures. Where his previous book, Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, was a guide to complex subjects using only the thousand most common words in the English language-tectonic plates, for instance, are “flat rocks we live on”- How To does just the opposite. Chris Hadfield about how to make an emergency landing and asking Serena Williams to test his theories for catching a drone by hitting tennis balls at one. But he does not come off as a jerk, and in fact consults plenty of experts from those other fields and beyond, interviewing Col. Munroe’s new book, How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, is all about taking a physicist’s approach to other fields. It’s nice to have a friendly rivalry, but sometimes that rivalry is only going in one direction, and then maybe it’s not really a rivalry. “That attitude has done a little bit more harm than good. Bring a tent.“I get along with almost everyone I meet who did physics, but I think the flaw we have is that we think we could do everyone else’s field as well if we tried,” he said. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they're getting tired. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. In 2006, he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full-time, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. It was lovingly assembled from high-resolution original scans of the comics (the mouseover text is discreetly included), and features a lot of doodles, notes, and puzzles in the margins.Ībout the Author Randall Munroe is the author of the popular webcomic xkcd and the science question-and-answer blog What If (which was later published as this book in 2014).
The artist selected personal and fan favorites from his first 600 comics. Xkcd: volume 0 is the first book from the immensely popular webcomic with a passionate readership (just Google "xkcd meetup", you'll see!)
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