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

基础信息

Randall Munroe (Author)           

Format Paperback | 307 pages

Dimensions 181 x 229 x 22mm | 600g 

Publication date 03 Sep 2019

Publisher Penguin LCC US           

Imprint Riverhead Books

Language English                  

ISBN-10 0593086376

ISBN-13 9780593086377

内容简介

畅销网络漫画xkcd兼畅销书《如果这样，会怎样》和《万物解释者》

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荒谬科学实作：用荒诞爆笑的科学解决现实世界的难题

当你想达成一项任务时，解决的方式有很多种，有快速的、错误的、复杂的或是不合适的，也有一种叫做没人愿意尝试的荒谬方式。从如何成功降落飞机到在地上挖一个洞，内容中所教导的方法都是不切实际的，但又令人不禁捧腹大笑。

作者以详尽的科学解析分享如何透过分析脸书照片的画素来预测天气；检测牙齿上的放射性物质判断你是婴儿潮或是90年代出生；用望远镜自拍的技巧、透过煮沸河流成功渡河，还有摧毁时空的结构就能免费帮住家供电。如果你想处理掉看过的书籍，门罗将提供你以下几个选项：把书溶解在大海中、将书本转化为蒸气，或是将书本发射到太阳裡。

透过荒诞的科学研究及过程，用复杂的方式解决简单的任务，内容丰富且娱乐性十足，为读者带来无限快乐。

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The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the 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 fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.