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3.76k reviews for:
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
4.14 AVERAGE
3.76k reviews for:
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
4.14 AVERAGE
Una fuente de información curiosa, de esa que no va a salvarte la vida y que, por otra parte, si es usada adecuadamente, puede convertirse en algo verdaderamente valioso. Me gustó mucho
Los niños en edad de preguntar “¿por qué?” Ya saben leer? De ser así: cómprenles este libro para que al menos hagan preguntas más interesantes.
My first nonfiction book for this year and I'm pretty happy for it to be a science one.
I respect the amount of time and effort the author puts into questions that normally garner a “wait…what?” reaction.
While most of the things were over my head (you have to have a fair amount of scientific knowledge to follow his logic) his writing style is incredibly funny and the comics deliver the right punchlines at the right time.
While most of the things were over my head (you have to have a fair amount of scientific knowledge to follow his logic) his writing style is incredibly funny and the comics deliver the right punchlines at the right time.
Not what I was expecting from this book. It was good but I don’t know that I’d be jumping to read more. A comical and fun way to answer and understand some strange questions, and a nice light read when you want a break from novels.
Thanks to Suhasa's motivation I could finish this crazy book..
Some of the questions are really weird, anything related to space and neutron stars are my favourite.
Some of the questions are really weird, anything related to space and neutron stars are my favourite.
Funny but accurate, Quirky but scientific.
It was an easy and smooth-going read, as most of the questions were very interesting and unimaginable and sometimes impossible to fathom.
"Boy, that escalated quickly" meme would be appropriate for many of the questions as it takes you on a rollercoaster ride by increasing the variables.
Finally I assure you, this book won't let you snooze and you'll learn 1000 new and exciting possibilities of how you might die ;)
It was an easy and smooth-going read, as most of the questions were very interesting and unimaginable and sometimes impossible to fathom.
"Boy, that escalated quickly" meme would be appropriate for many of the questions as it takes you on a rollercoaster ride by increasing the variables.
Finally I assure you, this book won't let you snooze and you'll learn 1000 new and exciting possibilities of how you might die ;)
Entertaining! Listend to the audiobook (read by Wil Wheaton) while on a road trip. It kept me awake and at points laughing!
funny
informative
medium-paced
Did you know that in 2060, there will be more dead people on Facebook than people who are still alive? And in a non-related story, if everyone who were to quarantine themselves for a few days until everyone who currently had the common cold felt better, it would not eradicate the cold from spreading, but it would likely crash the global economy? And how long would it take for the last man-made light to disappear from earth if all the humans became extinct?
These are just a few of the questions that this book attempts to answer. Most of the answers were funny, yet stayed true to science. As a result, some were over my head, but still a very entertaining read.
These are just a few of the questions that this book attempts to answer. Most of the answers were funny, yet stayed true to science. As a result, some were over my head, but still a very entertaining read.