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Randall Munroe – författare
- Pocket, Svenska, 2016INTERNATIONELL BÄSTSÄLJARE UTGIVEN PÅ 30+ SPRÅK Miljontals människor besöker varje vecka xkcd.com för att ta del av Randall Munroes nätserie. Munroes streckgubbar som funderar på vetenskap, teknologi, språk och kärlek (bland mycket annat) har blivit omåttligt populära, och lika uppskattade är hans svar på läsarnas mest absurda frågor. Från vilken höjd behöver man släppa en köttbit för att den ska vara färdiggrillad när den når marken? Kan man använda uppochnervända kulsprutor som en jetpack? Går det att bygga en bro av Lego över Atlanten? I jakten på svar använder Munroe avancerade datorsimuleringar, gräver djupt i militära arkiv, pratar med kärnkraftstekniker, analyserar Star Wars-filmerna med ett stoppur, ringer sin mamma och bildgooglar djur. Munroes svar är precisa och underhållande när han förklarar allt ifrån möjligheten att hitta en eventuell själsfrände, till de många hemska sätt du kan dö på om du blandar alla grundämnen. En väldigt kul bok för människor som tycker om vetenskap, filosofi och allting som rör den här stora jorden. Magnus Utvik i Gomorron Sverige "Underbar! Randall Munroe måste vara världens näst roligaste vetenskapskomiker." Jesper Rönndahl, vetenskapskomiker och programledare för Institutet i P3 Randall Munroe var tidigare anställd vid amerikanska NASA. Han fick nyligen en asteroid uppkallad efter sig Munroe 4942 som är stor nog att orsaka en massiv katastrof om den skulle krocka med jorden. Tänk om har blivit en global succé och ges ut i fler än 30 länder.
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Sikt är bokserien som samlar smarta texter från hela världen. I fyra nummer per år skriver framstående författare, forskare, historiker, tänkare och ekonomer. Syftet är att lyfta fram nya, tänkvärda och banbrytande perspektiv.
I det här numret publicerar vi stjärnförfattaren Karl Ove Knausgård och en av världens främsta fackboksförfattare Elizabeth Kolbert. Johan Olsson berättar om hur han blev världens bästa längdskidåkare, Anna Hellers skriver om företagskulturen som floppade och Kristoffer Leandoer introducerar en science fiction-klassiker av Isaac Asimov.
Dessutom: En stigande stjärna på den sydamerikanska litteraturhimlen, en Nobelpristagare i ekonomi och nya bilder på rymden från James Webb-teleskopet.
Välkommen till det fjärde numret av Sikt.
- Inbunden, Svenska, 2022
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Författaren som toppat New York Times bästsäljarlista med böckerna Tänk om och Gör så här levererar nu sina allra bästa svar på de konstigaste frågorna du aldrig tänkt på att ställa.
Miljoner människor över hela världen läste och älskade Tänk om , och de har fler frågor som faktiskt är ännu konstigare. Tack och lov är xkcd-skaparen Randall Munroe tillbaka för att reda ut saker och ting. Funderar du på att glida nerför en stång från månen till jorden? Det svåraste är att sätta landningen. Hoppas du kunna kyla ner atmosfären genom att få alla att öppna sina frysar samtidigt? Då är det nog dags för en kort introduktion till termodynamikens underbara värld. Vill du veta vad som skulle hända om du höll dig fast i rotorbladet på en helikopter, byggde en skyskrapa med en miljard våningar, gjorde en lavalampa av lava eller hoppade ner i en gejser just när den får ett utbrott? Okej, om du envisas så ...
Innan du ger dig ut på en kosmisk roadtripp, utfodrar dinosaurier i New York med stadens invånare eller proppar varenda helgedom på hela klotet full med bananer, bör du konsultera den här praktiska guiden för ytterst opraktiska idéer. Oavsett hur absurt det kan börja (eller sluta), bjuder Randall på de senaste forskningsrönen om allt från hur de fysiska lagarna kommer överens med en gungställning till design av flygplanskatapulter, för att klart och koncist svara på läsarnas frågor. Som bonus lär du dig en hel massa när du undersöker hur den vanliga världen fungerar under mycket ovanliga, för att inte säga extrema, omständigheter.
Fylld med galen vetenskap, gränslös nyfikenhet och Randalls karaktäristiska streckgubbar kommer Tänk om 2 lika säkert som naturlagarna att blixtsnabbt bli en klassiker som älskas av nyfikna läsare i alla åldrar.
- Inbunden, Svenska, 2019
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Världens mest underhållande och oanvändbara självhjälpsguide, från geniet bakom den virala webserien xkcd och New York Times-bästsäljarna Tänk om... och Så funkar allt.
För varje uppgift du tar dig an så finns det ett rätt sätt, ett fel sätt, och ett sätt som är så uselt och dumt att ingen någonsin borde försöka sig på det. Gör så här är en guide till det tredje sättet en bok full av extremt opraktiska råd för alla situationer, från att landa ett flygplan till att gräva ett hål.
Här förklarar bästsäljande författaren och serietecknaren Randall Munroe hur du gör för att förutsäga vädret genom att analysera pixlarna i dina Facebookfoton. Han lär dig hur du avgör om någon är babyboomer eller nittitalist genom att mäta radioaktiviteten hos deras tänder. Han erbjuder tips och tricks för att ta selfies med teleskop, korsa en flod genom att koka den och komma i tid till alla dina möten genom att spränga månen. Och om du vill göra dig av med boken när du är klar med den går han igenom dina alternativ för korrekt återvinning: att lösa upp boken i havet, omvandla den till ånga, nedsänka den i jordskorpan med hjälp av kontinentalplattornas rörelse eller skjuta den rakt in i solen.
Genom att utforska de mest komplicerade sätten att utföra enkla uppgifter krånglar Munroe inte enbart till det för sig själv och sina läsare. Som han så träffsäkert gjorde i Tänk om bjuder Munroe in oss att utforska de mest absurda gränserna för vad som är fysiskt möjligt, om än inte säkert eller ens lämpligt. Full av smarta, fyndiga illustrationer är Gör så här en underbart hisnande genväg till att förstå vetenskapen och teknologin bakom de mest grundläggande delarna av våra liv.
Sagt om Tänk om...
För att återuppväcka din förundran inför universum läs igenom före detta NASA-vetenskapsmannen Munroes livliga svar strösslade med streckgubbar på ett gäng rätt bisarra frågor om livet, universum och allt annat Extrem astrofysik och obskyr kemi har sällan förklarats så här tydligt eller lika genomgående skitkul. För varje uppgift du tar dig an så finns det ett rätt sätt, ett fel sätt, och ett sätt som är så uselt och dumt att ingen någonsin borde försöka sig på det. Gör så här är en guide till det tredje sättet en bok full av extremt opraktiska råd för alla situationer, från att landa ett flygplan till att gräva ett hål. Entertainment Weekly, "10 best nonfiction books of the year"
Genomgående fascinerande och underhållande Munroe lättar upp de hårda vetenskaperna med rejäla nypor fantasi En upplysande handbok i logisk metod. The Wall Street Journal
Det är kul att se på när Munroe tacklar varje fråga och undersöker varje möjlig komplikation med nördig och metodisk säkerhet Den underbart galna Tänk om är det roligaste du kan ha med matte och vetenskap, förutom att bli ett ondskefullt geni. The Boston Globe
Sagt om Så funkar allt:
Briljant en underbar guide för nyfikna sinnen. Bill Gates
Obligatorisk läsning för den nyfikne. Popular Science
Den här boken är en fest för ögonen och ett party för hjärnan. Jag kan inte nog rekommendera att du skaffar den här åt dig själv, din favoritnörd eller någon som bara älskar vackra teckningar. Scientific American
- Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Wonderful' Neil GaimanAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing ExplainerFor any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad 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. 'How strange science can fix everyday problems' New Scientist'A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride' Nature - Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Nerd royalty' BEN GOLDACRE 'Totally brilliant' TIM HARFORD'Required reading across the world' NEW YORK TIMESFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day?In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. - Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro. It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do. Richard Feynman once said that if you can't explain something to a first-year student, you don't really get it. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this: he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words.Many of the things we use every day - like our food-heating radio boxes ('microwaves'), our very tall roads ('bridges'), and our computer rooms ('datacentres') - are strange to us. So are the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells). Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button?In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and many, many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone -- age 5 to 105 -- who has ever wondered how things work, and why. - Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2023
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'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Totally brilliant' Tim HarfordWHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move mountains, fill the solar system with soup and alter the space-time continuum to answer them?Whether it's how to make a lava lamp out of lava or feeding the inhabitants of New York to a T. Rex, welcome to the weird, wonderful (and sometimes terrifying) world of WHAT IF? 2 - Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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SPECIAL UPDATED 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSICWHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. 'Randall Munroe is nerd royalty' BEN GOLDACRE 'Brilliant' ROLLING STONE'Smart answers to silly questions: Munroe reveals all' GUARDIAN'Required reading' NEW YORK TIMESRandall Munroe is the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com. His readers ask him a lot of strange questions: What would happen if absolutely everyone jumped at the same time? How could we build a Lego bridge between London and New York?What if my DNA vanished?How long could a submarine last in space?What are the odds of meeting my soulmate?In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults everyone from astronauts to nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)Welcome back to the mind-blowing world WHAT IF? . . . Now with 10 x the science and 10 x the jokes Featuring brand-new 2-colour annotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition will leave you feeling much smarter, whether you have a Nobel Prize or not. - Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An NPR Best Book of 2022"The questions throughout What If? 2 are equal parts brilliant, gross, and wonderfully absurd and the answers are thorough, deeply researched, and great fun. . . . Science isn’t easy, but in Munroe’s capable hands, it surely can be fun." —TIMEThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Munroe consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airliner catapult–design to answer his readers’ questions, clearly and concisely, with illuminating and occasionally terrifying illustrations. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances. - E-bokSvenska
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Författaren som toppat New York Times bästsäljarlista med böckerna Tänk om och Gör så här levererar nu sina allra bästa svar på de konstigaste frågorna du aldrig tänkt på att ställa.Miljoner människor över hela världen läste och älskade Tänk om , och de har fler frågor som faktiskt är ännu konstigare. Tack och lov är xkcd-skaparen Randall Munroe tillbaka för att reda ut saker och ting. Funderar du på att glida nerför en stång från månen till jorden? Det svåraste är att sätta landningen. Hoppas du kunna kyla ner atmosfären genom att få alla att öppna sina frysar samtidigt? Då är det nog dags för en kort introduktion till termodynamikens underbara värld. Vill du veta vad som skulle hända om du höll dig fast i rotorbladet på en helikopter, byggde en skyskrapa med en miljard våningar, gjorde en lavalampa av lava eller hoppade ner i en gejser just när den får ett utbrott? Okej, om du envisas så ...Innan du ger dig ut på en kosmisk roadtripp, utfodrar dinosaurier i New York med stadens invånare eller proppar varenda helgedom på hela klotet full med bananer, bör du konsultera den här praktiska guiden för ytterst opraktiska idéer. Oavsett hur absurt det kan börja (eller sluta), bjuder Randall på de senaste forskningsrönen om allt från hur de fysiska lagarna kommer överens med en gungställning till design av flygplanskatapulter, för att klart och koncist svara på läsarnas frågor. Som bonus lär du dig en hel massa när du undersöker hur den vanliga världen fungerar under mycket ovanliga, för att inte säga extrema, omständigheter.Fylld med galen vetenskap, gränslös nyfikenhet och Randalls karaktäristiska streckgubbar kommer Tänk om 2 lika säkert som naturlagarna att blixtsnabbt bli en klassiker som älskas av nyfikna läsare i alla åldrar. - Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
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From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, a hilarious and informative book of popular science that provides answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?
In pursuit of answers for these fascinating thought experiments, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves STEM books and pondering the hypothetical.
Randall Munroe's fully-researched, deeply unserious answers explore:
Absurd Science: From draining the oceans to building a periodic table out of the actual elements, discover the often-explosive consequences of taking silly ideas seriously.Hypothetical Questions: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? Or if a robot apocalypse finally happened?Physics Explained: Munroe breaks down complex topics like relativistic physics and thermodynamics with clarity, wit, and detailed computer simulations.Signature Stick-Figure Comics: Each answer is complemented by the iconic xkcd comics that make complex science accessible and hilarious. - Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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A special 10th anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcdrevised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to important questions you never thought to ask.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by his signature xkcd comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)
In celebration of 10 years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revised his classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10. The result is 10x the adventure of scientific inquiry. Featuring brand-new 2-color annotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition is far more than a book for geeks, What If? explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much smarter for having read.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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A collection of twenty pieces that represent the best science and nature writing published the previous year and explores our ever-changing world.On his selections for this year’s The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Randall Munroe writes, “Rather than simply telling people facts, I leaned toward articles that explained why we knew those facts, and why we cared, sharing portraits of people trying earnestly to understand the world around them.” The essays in this collection are deeply informative and ultimately uplifting explorations into our ever-changing world—and our ever-changing place in it. From water shortages in Pakistan, to a medical device reversing the effects of vertigo, to the politics of the 2025 Los Angeles fires clean-ups, these stories span mental health, conservation, politics, climate, and more, celebrating our unending quest to better understand the world around us.THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2026 INCLUDES: Sabrina Imbler • Rivka Galchen • Rachel Aviv • Nathaniel Rich • Tatiana Schlossberg • Trevor Quirk • Roy Richard Grinker - Häftad, Engelska, 2027
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A special 10th anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcdrevised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to the most absurd hypothetical questions you never thought to ask.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away?
In pursuit of answers for these wild thought experiments, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by his signature xkcd comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)
In celebration of 10 years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revised his classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10. The result is 10x the adventure of scientific inquiry. Featuring brand-new 2-color annotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition is far more than a book for geeks; this popular science book explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much smarter for having read.
What happens when you apply real-world physics to the wildest hypotheticals?
Humorous Science: Discover the city-leveling destruction that would occur if a baseball were pitched at 90 percent the speed of light.Physics and Math Explained: Follow along as complex topics are explored using computer simulations, declassified military research, and signature stick-figure comics.Outrageous Scenarios: Calculate the global chaos that would ensue from draining the oceans or building a jetpack out of machine guns.A Perfect Gift for Nerds: Praised as a laugh-out-loud, educational, and entertaining read, this book is the ideal present for anyone with a curious and slightly twisted mind. - Häftad, Engelska, 2027
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Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, ';ten hundred') most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including:
food-heating radio boxes (microwaves)tall roads (bridges)computer buildings (datacenters)the shared space house (the International Space Station)the other worlds around the sun (the solar system)the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates)the pieces everything is made of (the periodic table)planes with turning wings (helicopters)boxes that make clothes smell better (washers and dryers)the bags of stuff inside you (cells)How do these things work? Where do they come from? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we opened them up, heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyoneage 5 to 105who has ever wondered how things work, and why.
- Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
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- E-bokEngelska, 2019
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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- E-bokEngelska, 2022
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- E-bokEngelska, 2014
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From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans’ strangest questions. The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical: • What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool? • Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns? • What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City? • Are fire tornadoes possible? His responses are masterpieces of clarity and wit, gleefully and accurately explaining everything from the relativistic effects of a baseball pitched at near the speed of light to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements. The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical. - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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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. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To.” —CNET “[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, and What If? 2, coming September 13, 2022For 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. - E-bokEngelska, 2024
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CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSIC WITH A SPECIAL EDITION. THIS IS WHAT IF? . . . x10.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''Nerd royalty'' BEN GOLDACRE ''Totally brilliant'' TIM HARFORD''Required reading across the world'' NEW YORK TIMESFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Fans of Randall Munroe ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)In celebration of 10 years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revised his classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10. Featuring brand-new 2-colour annotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition will leave you feeling much smarter, whether you have a Nobel Prize or not.
- E-bokEngelska, 2015
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From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams (''blueprints'' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro. It''s good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it''s much more interesting to know what they do. Richard Feynman once said that if you can''t explain something to a first-year student, you don''t really get it. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this: he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words.Many of the things we use every day - like our food-heating radio boxes (''microwaves''), our very tall roads (''bridges''), and our computer rooms (''datacentres'') - are strange to us. So are the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells). Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button?In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and many, many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone -- age 5 to 105 -- who has ever wondered how things work, and why.
- E-bokEngelska, 2019
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Randall Munroe is . . .''Nerd royalty'' Ben Goldacre''Totally brilliant'' Tim Harford''Laugh-out-loud funny'' Bill Gates''Wonderful'' Neil GaimanAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe world''s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling 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 bad 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. ''How strange science can fix everyday problems'' New Scientist''A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride'' Nature
- Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask.The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger.Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing.Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer doors at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics.Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-storey building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.Welcome (back) to the mind-blowing world of What If?Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers' questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall's signature stick-figure comics, What If? 2 is sure to be another instant classic adored by inquisitive readers of all ages. - Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to askThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger.Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing.Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer doors at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics.Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-storey building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.Welcome (back) to the mind-blowing world of What If?Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers' questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall's signature stick-figure comics, What If? 2 is sure to be another instant classic adored by inquisitive readers of all ages. 122 kr
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WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask.
The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger.
Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing.
Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone''s freezer doors at the same time? Maybe it''s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics.
Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-storey building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.
Welcome (back) to the mind-blowing world of What If?
Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers'' questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.
Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall''s signature stick-figure comics, What If? 2 is sure to be another instant classic adored by inquisitive readers of all ages.
- E-bokEngelska, 2014
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe''s iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day?In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.