How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Randall Munroe

320 pages first pub 2019 (view editions)

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This book is ideal for curious readers who enjoy humorously exploring the extremes of scientific problem-solving through creative, unconventional approaches to everyday challenges.

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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 advi...

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