Ever wonder what it takes to land a plane on top of a train? Or what’s the best way to send nuclear waste to the sun? Or how to take a selfie with yourself and the moon? Well, Randall Munroe has answers, filled in a humorous tone.
The beauty of how science generalizes – particularly, physics – is how it applies to all sorts of absurd situations. Munroe understands how to create such situations in his mind and explain how science can address our craziest imaginations.
I give this book my endorsement, but my biggest endorsement comes from my child. They heard me listening to it in the car and demanded that I look up other books by the author so that we can listen to them from the beginning in the car together. Both a science geek and their freshman-level child give Munroe’s work a huge thumb’s up. We start the What If? series tomorrow.
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
By Randall Munroe
Narrated by Wil Wheaton
Text copyright (c) 2019
Riverhead Books
Audio copyright (c) 2019
Penguin Audio
ASIN B07NGFZBGL
Length: 6:15
Genre: Science, humor
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