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How To

The world`s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling `What If?` and `Thing Explainer`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 analysing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you`re a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the moon. And if you want to get rid of this 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 vapour, 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 doesn`t just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in `What If?`, he invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, `How To` is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.

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