<b>Smart answers to silly questions: Randall Munroe reveals all</b>

GUARDIAN

<b>A masterclass and a great deal of fun...</b> Like all the best lessons, you only realise how much you've learnt once you've finished it

THE ECONOMIST

<b>I love XKCD's <i>What If</i> -- 'Dear Abby for mad scientists'</b>

NEIL GAIMAN

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<b>With this book, you're a kid with a chemistry set all over again</b>. . . <b>required reading for all grown-ups </b>and a fun reminder that science is really, really cool.

REGISTER

<b>Essential </b>

NATURE

<b>Expert research and accessible wit... a favourite among both geeks and laymen</b>

TIME

<b>Brilliant</b>

ROLLING STONE

<b>Delightfully free-wheeling and whimsical</b>... despite all the hard facts and gigantic numbers, <b>you really don't have to be a rocket scientist to enjoy <i>What If?</i></b>

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

<b>Brilliant, funny and fascinating</b>

GRAEME LE SAUX, DAILY EXPRESS

<b>The best bathroom book you'll ever buy... Eminently approachable and full of beautiful expositions on the impossible </b>that illuminate the furthest reaches, almost to the limits, of the modern sciences. The physics is real; and so is the emotional content

NEWSWEEK

<b>It will satisfy the curious and arouse curiosity in anyone who's not - and it's got great jokes</b>

IRISH TIMES

<b>Totally brilliant</b>

TIM HARFORD

<b>XKCD is</b> <b>nerd royalty, the alpha dork, there's no geek more widely cited and loved</b>

BEN GOLDACRE

<b><i>What If?</i> is brilliant, scientifically rigorous and utterly absurd... It. Is. A. Triumph</b>

BOINGBOING

<b>Fantastic... <i>What If?</i> has solved my gift dilemmas for a large group of people . . . . Here's a "What If?" question from me: What if everyone on the planet simultaneously bought a copy of this book, stopped what they were doing and read it cover to cover, would modern civilization and our global economy collapse? It's an experiment worth trying</b>

HUFFINGTON POST

<b>Wonderful and incredibly fun</b>

AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Thoughtful, scientific, and <b>highly entertaining</b>

PARADE

If you're the kind of person whose brain whizzes with questions, <i>What If? </i>may calm the noise. Randall Munroe's done all the hard work for you

SHORTLIST

<b>Dangerously absorbing . . . I could not think of a better book</b>

VARSITY

The reader is left constantly subject to <b>outbursts of laughter</b>, lin­gering doubts concerning the sanity of the human race, and <b>an ever-growing fascination with the way our world and the universe works </b>. . . Though science geeks will be the first to <b>acknowledge Munroe's greatness,</b> even people suffering from a chronic hatred towards anything concerned with math will find the humour and absurdity of <i>What If? </i>hard to resist

THE STUDENT

From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd, What If? gives 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. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind - or at least a really big explosion.

This audiobook edition is read by geek icon Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stand by Me, The Big Bang Theory) and has been adapted for audio in collaboration with the author.

(P)2014 Blackstone Audio
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Science's most intriguing questions answered by the web's favourite writer, the genius behind xkcd.com. Munroe's hilarious and compelling answers explain everything from the odds of meeting your one true soulmate to how many humans a rampaging T-Rex would need to eat a day.
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XKCD is nerd royalty, the alpha dork, there's no geek more widely cited and loved - BEN GOLDACRE, author of BAD SCIENCE

It's totally brilliant and everyone who matters already knows that! - TIM HARFORD, THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST

Required reading across the world - New York Times

With this book and with XKCD, you're a kid with a chemistry set all over again. [Randall Munroe's] enthusiasm for all things scientific is infectious . . . required reading . . . for grown-ups, it's just fun to remember that science is really, really cool - Register
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Science's most intriguing questions answered by the web's favourite writer, the genius behind xkcd.com.

Munroe's hilarious and compelling answers explain everything from the odds of meeting your one true soulmate to how many humans a rampaging T-Rex would need to eat a day.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781473609853
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Aldersnivå
00, J, G, 02, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Lydfil

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Biografisk notat

Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and bestselling author of What If?, Thing Explainer and xkcd: Volume 0. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006 he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full time, and has since been nominated for a Hugo Award three times. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth.