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How to

Paperback • 2019 • English • 1. edition

How to: absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems

By Randall Munroe

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioacti...Show more

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ISBN

9780593086377

Publisher

Riverhead books

Published year

2019

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

How to

Format

Paperback

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