Sunday, 19 October 2014

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

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Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It's had over a billion page hits to date. A year ago Munroe set up a new section - What If - where he tackles a series of impossible questions: If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive? How dangerous is it, really, in a pool in a thunderstorm? If we hooked turbines to people exercising in gyms, how much power could we produce? What if everyone only had one soulmate? From what height would you need to drop a steak to ensure it was cooked by the time it reached the ground? What would happen if the moon went away? 




Product Details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (September 2, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0544272994
  • ISBN-13: 978-0544272996

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