Randall Munroe is the author of the popular webcomic xkcd and the science question-and-answer blog What If. 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, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they're getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans’ strangest questions.
The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical:
• What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?
• Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?
• What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City?
• Are fire tornadoes possible?
His responses are masterpieces of clarity and wit, gleefully and accurately explaining everything from the relativistic effects of a baseball pitched at near the speed of light to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements.
The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.
这本书应该买Kindle版本的,我却买了纸质版的,哈哈 书中罗列了各种各样奇怪的问题,很快就能翻完。里面的各种问题,有的十分有意思,有的确实有些古怪,甚至有点荒诞。世界如此之大,像书中的那样的问题,应该是数之不尽的,但是作者还是收集了些许,还用科学的态度来对待,...
評分本文发表于《三联生活周刊》微信公众号 http://weibo.com/1191965271/Ckm3l0PEe?type=comment#_rnd1448165673192 5月19日,比尔·盖茨在他的博客上推荐了7本夏日读物:《出格夸张法》、《现实的魔力》、What If?、XKCD、《如何用统计学撒谎》、《我们该吃肉吗?》、《论免...
評分So what? 读《那些古怪又让人忧心的问题》有感 What if?如果看了这本书,你会怎么样? 人类还有多少未知的东西?对于大自然,对于宇宙甚至对于人体的内部结构,随着科学的进步和文明的发展,虽然知道的越多,但都存在一些未知的区域。人类于是保持着一种敬畏与谦卑的心态在...
評分文/蓝莓兔子 如果把牙齿的温度降到很低,有没有可能在喝到热咖啡的时候牙齿就碎了?如果地球上所有的人都拿着激光笔同时照向月亮,月亮的颜色会发生变化吗?如果地球上的所有人都尽可能挤在同一个地方,一起跳起,然后全部在一刹那间同时落地,会发生什么?如果一个女性用他自...
評分这是一本能让极客爱不释手的书,但对我这样的非极客来说,也是一次妙趣横生的旅行,首先打开书我就看到了最别开生面的免责声明:不要在家里尝试书中提到的任何行为。本书作者是一位互联网漫画家而不是健康或安全专家,他喜欢看到东西着火或者爆炸,换言之他并没有把你的首要利...
yay! 終於在 2015 來到之前讀完瞭!
评分還行吧,作者有點刻意賣弄的感覺
评分5月20日下的單,啃到前天纔讀完。不是特彆吸引人,畢竟是科普沒有劇情,但作者已經寫得非常有趣,漫畫的幽默總是讓人會心一笑。英文版看不懂的地方有不少,很多詞詞典查不到,有些幽默的部分和提到人名地名的部分,由於文化差異很難有共鳴。選擇迴答的問題可能大多適閤美國人腦洞大開的口味,我個人的話看完之後受到震撼留下印象的信息很少。感覺這本書對綜閤知識和數理基礎深厚的或者科學從業者來說會更有啓發和趣味。
评分5月20日下的單,啃到前天纔讀完。不是特彆吸引人,畢竟是科普沒有劇情,但作者已經寫得非常有趣,漫畫的幽默總是讓人會心一笑。英文版看不懂的地方有不少,很多詞詞典查不到,有些幽默的部分和提到人名地名的部分,由於文化差異很難有共鳴。選擇迴答的問題可能大多適閤美國人腦洞大開的口味,我個人的話看完之後受到震撼留下印象的信息很少。感覺這本書對綜閤知識和數理基礎深厚的或者科學從業者來說會更有啓發和趣味。
评分還行吧,作者有點刻意賣弄的感覺
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