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How to : absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems / Randall Munroe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : John Murray, 2020.Description: 336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781473680340 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 502 23
LOC classification:
  • Q173 .M8 2020
Summary: 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. 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 millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the moon.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 502 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R17364A0499

Originally published: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. 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 millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the moon.

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