What If
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
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“Also, this was covered in the @xkcdComic book What If (great book). | Munroe’s approach is a great way to learn about science. | The kids are obsessed with this. They can quote it from memory. They’ve learned probably more science from What If than they have from their science class in the last two years. | Thoroughly enjoying Randell Munroe's (of @xkcdComic fame) book "What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" Funny and smartly written, and highly educational. With great illustrations of course.”
Source →“Also, this was covered in the @xkcdComic book What If (great book). | Munroe’s approach is a great way to learn about science. | The kids are obsessed with this. They can quote it from memory. They’ve learned probably more science from What If than they have from their science class in the last two years. | Thoroughly enjoying Randell Munroe's (of @xkcdComic fame) book "What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" Funny and smartly written, and highly educational. With great illustrations of course.”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Bill Gates and Astro Teller
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in That Make You Smarter, Most Recommended Books, and Science.
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. 'My friend and I were argui...
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in That Make You Smarter, Most Recommended Books, and Science.
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Gates Foundation
“Also, this was covered in the @xkcdComic book What If (great book). | Munroe’s approach is a great way to learn about science. | The kids are obsessed with this. They can quote it from memory. They’ve learned probably more science from What If than they have from their science class in the last two years. | Thoroughly enjoying Randell Munroe's (of @xkcdComic fame) book "What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" Funny and smartly written, and highly educational. With great illustrations of course.”
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