What If?

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出版者:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
作者:Randall Munroe
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页数:321
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出版时间:2014-9-2
价格:USD 24.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780544272644
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  • 科普
  • 长知识
  • 英文原版
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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.

作者简介

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.

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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...  

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一些無厘頭的問題,用科學與幽默的方式來回答,坦白說,讀完會有些收穫,卻又不怎麼營養,也不見得完全正確。它令我想到另一本經濟類別書籍 ~【親愛的臥底經濟學家】,幽默居多,實用其次,正確與否,就別計較。重要的是,在莞爾一笑外,啟發些思索。  

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阅读的是Houghton Mifflin Harcourt的kindle版,豆瓣有两个重复条目

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yay! 终于在 2015 来到之前读完了!

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阅读的是Houghton Mifflin Harcourt的kindle版,豆瓣有两个重复条目

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还行吧,作者有点刻意卖弄的感觉

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yay! 终于在 2015 来到之前读完了!

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