How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Ra

By Randall Munroe

Book Overview

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "How To will make you laugh as you learn...With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473680344
• ISBN13: 9781473680340
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: John Murray
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Eliza could have used this book.

In February 1838, a young woman, Eliza Harris, escaped across the frozen Ohio River. If she had read this book, she would not have had to wait for winter. Chapter 6. How to cross a river. I found a section on the thesis for surface pressure. In the military, we find this same conundrum when a tank tread has less pressure on a land mine than a Humvee wheel. The book does leave out ice flows. “Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems” on the surface looks like one big joke. Even the disclaimer states, “Do not try this at home.” However, by slowing down and reading the book, including the amusing footnotes, you will find some real-world physics that can be applied or understood in a different context. Let us face it, author Randall Munroe is a real physicist hiding behind a cartoon.

How to be hilarious is not what this book is trying to say, but it is saying it well.

This book is hilarious, interesting, and highly educational. It teaches you everything from how to make (and fill) a pool, to how to cross a river and how to dig a hole, but in the most humorous, most literal, most scientific way possible.