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How To
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer.
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.
Best-selling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analysing 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.
By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his listeners. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, he invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
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- brad
- 27-10-19
Great book
Really enjoyed this and has furthered my interest in physics. It's great to have a book you can learn from but is also really entertaining and keeps you interested even when it's all about numbers and formulas
Could not rate Randall Munroe any higher
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- M. Marshall
- 17-09-19
No comparison to What If?
Was looking forward to this as I loved What If? This is no where near the same level. Learning about all the ways you can cross a river is no comparison to learning how long you'll survive in a submarine in space, or whether a machine gun jetpack would work.
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- Hal
- 13-07-20
Entertaining information
I totally didn't recognize Will's voice til he said ot at the end. I face-palmed. Great read!
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- l
- 14-03-24
Funny and intelligent
I really enjoyed this book I listened to it after listening to what if and what if 2 Randall Munroe is a brilliant author who writes scientifically correct answers to obserd questions often made by peoples five year old children
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- Anonymous User
- 16-02-24
Disappointingly unsurprising
I don't feel like I learnt anything interesting or was surprised by this book. If I had guessed at the answers to the questions posed I would have been in the right ballpark for everything.
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- Charles Cowie
- 30-03-23
idk it's good
idk it's good and its rely funy and cleaver I enjoyed this I recomend for peopl who need a book
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- Kevin Nagurski
- 30-08-22
If you liked What If, then you’ll like this too
What If is laugh out loud funny and surprisingly informative. This is just the same. I hope Randle continues to write even more user manuals for life
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- longarmjon
- 15-11-21
escape to the real world
guy's a genius....highly entertaining way of looking at science 🤩⭐🧘⭐🤩 let's all put our houses on an aeroplane!!!
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- Mr. Baker
- 01-10-21
information you may need for further information
information you may need for further information for future applications and planning of projects
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- mtg101
- 06-02-21
xkcd and Wil
yeah it's what it said it would be, excellent. nerdy numbers in a fun way, with great narration
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