AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To
you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth
of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification you won't go
wrong with How To. -CNET [How To] has science and jokes in it so 10 10 can recommend. -Simone
Giertz The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide a fun-for-all holiday gift
from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the bestsellers 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 complex excessive and inadvisable 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 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your
teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope crossing a river by boiling it and
powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the
book once you're done with it he walks you through your options for proper disposal including
dissolving it in the ocean converting it to a vapor using tectonic plates to subduct it into
the Earth's mantle or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do
simple tasks Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did
so brilliantly in What If? Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the
possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations How To is a delightfully
mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do
every day.
