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2019., Riverhead Books Call No: HI-INT 502 MUN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 plane to digging a hole. Cartoonist Randall Munroe (xkcd) 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 radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible and helps us better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.--
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2010., Bearstache Books Call No: SCI-FI F MAC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Machine of Death Volume: 1
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2015., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: HI-INT 500 MUN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The creator of the popular webcomic "xkcd" uses line drawings and common words to provide simple explanations for how things work, including microwaves, bridges, tectonic plates, the solar system, the periodic table, helicopters, and other essential concepts.
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[2014], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: HI-INT 500 MUN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Writer and artist Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic xkcd, answers a compendium of bizarre hypothetical questions regarding science, society, and survival with fact-based explanations. Includes black and white illustrations.
