圖書標籤: 科普 長知識 英文原版 2016
发表于2024-11-23
What If? pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
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.
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。
評分還行吧,作者有點刻意賣弄的感覺
評分還行吧,作者有點刻意賣弄的感覺
評分還行吧,作者有點刻意賣弄的感覺
評分還行吧,作者有點刻意賣弄的感覺
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What If? pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024