How to: absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems
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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. Randall Munroe provides highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. 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. He invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible and uses infographics and illustrations to help us better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
Munroe, R. (2019). How to: absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems. New York, Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Munroe, Randall. 2019. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-world Problems. New York, Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Munroe, Randall, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-world Problems. New York, Riverhead Books, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Munroe, Randall. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-world Problems. New York, Riverhead Books, 2019.
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