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.
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...
评分每天上班路上,有一条河堤路,路上只有两条车道双向的。经常有车来来往往,想要超车比较需要技术,一定是对面车道没有车或者车离着比较远的时候,迅速超越前车,加速,油门,转向,加速,加大油门,转向,请为一个开车娴熟的女司机鼓掌,谢谢。 这段路上总会经过一个阶段式的减...
评分如果要用一个词来定义这本书,我会认为是“好奇心”。 不知道从什么时候开始,好奇的都是诸如办公室八卦、朋友间的绯闻动态,或者是一些明星、行业领袖的新闻。 而一些更“幼稚”的问题,比如天空有多高、有人在星星上生活吗,已经甚少提及,到底是什么时候我们学会了不再提问...
评分如果要用一个词来定义这本书,我会认为是“好奇心”。 不知道从什么时候开始,好奇的都是诸如办公室八卦、朋友间的绯闻动态,或者是一些明星、行业领袖的新闻。 而一些更“幼稚”的问题,比如天空有多高、有人在星星上生活吗,已经甚少提及,到底是什么时候我们学会了不再提问...
评分怎么说呢?作为给小白看的科普读物,又讲解的不够细致跟清楚,让我看的时候不停有疑问,而书里又没有给出答案,比如第一个例子中潮汐力是什么,潮汐锁定的地外行星又是什么?作者就这样用了,也不解释原因,第二个例子里为什么空气快速撞上棒球就会发生核聚变,又射出伽马射线...
还行吧,作者有点刻意卖弄的感觉
评分阅读的是Houghton Mifflin Harcourt的kindle版,豆瓣有两个重复条目
评分yay! 终于在 2015 来到之前读完了!
评分5月20日下的单,啃到前天才读完。不是特别吸引人,毕竟是科普没有剧情,但作者已经写得非常有趣,漫画的幽默总是让人会心一笑。英文版看不懂的地方有不少,很多词词典查不到,有些幽默的部分和提到人名地名的部分,由于文化差异很难有共鸣。选择回答的问题可能大多适合美国人脑洞大开的口味,我个人的话看完之后受到震撼留下印象的信息很少。感觉这本书对综合知识和数理基础深厚的或者科学从业者来说会更有启发和趣味。
评分5月20日下的单,啃到前天才读完。不是特别吸引人,毕竟是科普没有剧情,但作者已经写得非常有趣,漫画的幽默总是让人会心一笑。英文版看不懂的地方有不少,很多词词典查不到,有些幽默的部分和提到人名地名的部分,由于文化差异很难有共鸣。选择回答的问题可能大多适合美国人脑洞大开的口味,我个人的话看完之后受到震撼留下印象的信息很少。感觉这本书对综合知识和数理基础深厚的或者科学从业者来说会更有启发和趣味。
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