How to : absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems / Randall Munroe.

"For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. Munroe has created a guide to the third kind of approach. He provides highly impractical advice for everything from landing a p...

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Main Author: Munroe, Randall (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
Subjects:
Holy Cross Note:Graduating Student Library Worker 2023
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • How to jump really high
  • How to throw a pool party
  • How to dig a hole
  • How to play the piano
  • How to listen to music
  • How to make an emergency landing
  • How to cross a river
  • How to move
  • How to keep your house from moving
  • How to chase a tornado
  • How to build a lava moat
  • How to throw things
  • How to play football
  • How to predict the weather
  • How to go places
  • How to play tag
  • How to ski
  • How to mail a package
  • How to power your house (on Earth)
  • How to power your house (on Mars)
  • How to make friends
  • How to blow out birthday candles
  • How to walk a dog
  • How to send a file
  • How to charge your phone
  • How to take a selfie
  • How to catch a drone
  • How to tell if you're a Nineties Kid
  • How to win an election
  • How to decorate a tree
  • How to build a highway
  • How to get somewhere fast
  • How to be on time
  • How to dispose of this book
  • How to change a light bulb.