How to : absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems / Randall Munroe.
"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. [This book] 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." -- From book jacket flap.
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. Munroe has created a guide to the third kind of approach. He provides highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. In exploring the absurd, he opens up an understanding to the science and technology underlying the things we do every day. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525537106
- ISBN: 0525537104
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [292]-299) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Science > Miscellanea. Problem solving. HUMOR / Form / Trivia. SCIENCE / Essays. SCIENCE / Physics / General. Problem solving. Science. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |