Take a photo of a barcode or cover
snix 's review for:
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
And this is the book where I realized I hate science writing. Or more accurately, math writing. Or more accurately, absurdist humor mixed with math writing and science writing. I love Wil Wheaton and would love to hear him narrate another audiobook, but this book was not my jam at all. The answers are not serious or scientific - most of the time, the questions were the most interesting part, and then the author changed the question as he answered them.
One of the Amazon reviews gives this example:
Obviously that reviewer LOVED the idea, but I found it annoying. There were a few questions I liked, most notably the one about draining the ocean and what to do if you and someone else were the only people on earth and needed to find one another, but those were the least math-oriented questions in the book. Of course a history teacher would like a geography and strategy question.
If I didn't have a road trip I needed to fill I probably never would have finished it. As it was, it made decent background noise, and now I know I hate math in every form, even literary.
One of the Amazon reviews gives this example:
Some simply don't have fun answers, but he takes them a step further to make them fun! Similar to Mythbusters, where the see what would have to happen to get the desired result. What happens if everyone on earth shined a laser pointer at the moon? Nothing noticeable. What about if everyone on the earth shined a megawatt laser at the moon? something much more interesting.
Obviously that reviewer LOVED the idea, but I found it annoying. There were a few questions I liked, most notably the one about draining the ocean and what to do if you and someone else were the only people on earth and needed to find one another, but those were the least math-oriented questions in the book. Of course a history teacher would like a geography and strategy question.
If I didn't have a road trip I needed to fill I probably never would have finished it. As it was, it made decent background noise, and now I know I hate math in every form, even literary.