How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems - Hardcover

Randall Munroe applies physics, chemistry, and mathematics to stupidly simple questions. What happens if you try.

Munroe, the cartoonist behind XKCD, has written a guide to doing ordinary things in the most scientifically complex way possible. How do you light a match on Mars. How much coffee is too much coffee. How do you get down from a ladder safely. The answers are rigorous, hilarious, and completely impractical.

Engineers and math teachers give this to students who need permission to be playful with equations. It's assigned in seminars on scientific communication because it proves you can explain real physics while being genuinely funny. You keep it on your desk to read when committee meetings drain your will to live.

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