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.
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..
As he did so brilliantly in What If? , Munroe invites us to explore the most Absurd reaches of the possible.
By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn\'t just make things difficult for himself and his readers.
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.
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.
He teaches you how to tell if you\'re a baby boomer or a 90\'s kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth.
Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos.
It\'s full of highly impractical Advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. --Simone Giertz 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. -- CNET How To ] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.
If you want some lightweight edification, you won\'t go wrong with How To .
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 humanity\'s effort to comprehend it.
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
