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Randall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What If?, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd. 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.
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- 2015
Have you ever tried to read up on some incredible part of the world, only to find yourself faced with incomprehensible terminology and jargon? It’s nice to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it’s even more interesting to know what they do. What if you had something that could clearly explain it all using simple words?
Thing Explainer, by Randall Munroe, does just that. Using line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words, he provides simple explanations for some of the world’s most interesting things: our food-heating radio boxes (microwaves), our very tall roads (bridges), and our computer buildings (datacenters). He also explains the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells).
Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever wondered how things work, and why.
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如果地球上所有人同时将激光笔对准月亮，月亮的颜色会发生什么变化？ 上周四（0630）晚上，我心下仰慕已久的世界级著名Geek兰道尔·门罗（Randall Munroe）在北京的一家书店里，用全部的演讲时间，讲述了自己是如何探究这个看起来毫无意义的问题的。【为什么毫无意义？首先，...
评分本文为比尔盖茨为Randall Munroe新书《Thing Explainer：Complicated Stuffin Simple Words》（中文译本《万物解释者》）所写的书评。 由WPDang发表于界面 我发现在慈善行业里，术语是一个问题，比如在健康领域工作时，你自然会听到讨论最新医学研究时会蹦出来的那些词汇，...
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书的理念非常有意思：以最常用的一千个词汇描述解释一些复杂的概念和东西。排版、装帧、颜色和插图都很合我的口味，但是认真读解释的时候，会不由自主地去想他所描述的到底是哪一个概念。对成年人来说，这本书有点像猜谜语，比如“tiny bags of water you’ve made of”，这是什么呢？”stuff in earth we can burn”? 只有tree可以直接说tree, 因为它在一千基本词范围之内。这本有趣的书从反面证明各种精确词汇的必要性，但我绝对理解赞赏它严格使用一千单词来解释万物的努力。这就像给小一小二的学生出考卷，单词量就那么多，每份卷子必须不一样，必须考出学生的水平，对于出题者，是有意义的挑战。对于《What If》的作者来说，创作这书一定巨好玩。
评分这本书的路线非常神奇，有空我一定写一个书评（for real
评分Over-simplification lowered the quality of this book.
评分买了一年了，再读有种想要翻译的冲动
评分就真正挑战的是如何用文末那1000个简单词去描述复杂事物。
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