书名：How To: Absurd Scientific Advice如何：应对现实生活常见问题的古怪科学建议

作者：Randall Munroe

出版社名称：Penguin Random House USA 

出版时间：2019 

语种：英语

 ISBN：9780593086377 

商品尺寸：17.8 x 2.3 x 22.8 cm 包装：平装 

页数：320（以实物为准）

网路漫画xkcd创办人，比尔·盖茨力推，纽约时报畅销书《Thing Explainer》《What If》作者兰道尔·门罗又一创意新作！

不教你怎么做好一件事，堪称没用的导览上架啦！

要处理一件事情，有正确的作法、错误的作法、大家都不推的超麻烦作法，已经有几千百本关于前两种作法的书或导览，但却没什么书为大家介绍不切实际的麻烦作法。

本书就要来开你的脑洞，教你怎么麻烦地处理一件事，诸如：

• 分析脸书照片的像素来推论气象（喂！看气象报告就好啦！）

• 分析牙齿的放射性物质来判断这是婴儿潮的孩子还是90后的孩子（喂！直接问不是比较快！）

• 用望远镜自拍（喂！拿出口袋的手机不就得了！）

•把河水煮沸好过河（喂！划船比较实际吧！）

•破坏时空结构来产电（这…太难了吧！）

如果看腻这本书，除了把它丢在角落占空间外，作者还提供了各种摆脱这本书的方法，譬如将书溶进海水、把书变成水蒸气、藉由板块运动把书埋进地幔里、甚至把书丢到太阳系……

作者是要为大家找麻烦，才这些超麻烦作法吗？不，作者是想带领我们跳出框架，思索更多可能性，才不厌其烦地以生动的文字，各式图表及插画解释藏在我们日常生活中的各种科学知识。

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer

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 amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.

Randall Munroeis the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full-time. He lives in Massachusetts.

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