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In this worldwide exclusive, the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer books reveals the world’s most entertaining and useless ...

Excerpted from What If? 2 by Randall Munroe. Copyright © 2022 by Randall Munroe. Excerpted by permission of Riverhead, an imprint and division of Penguin Random ...

In 2014, Randall Munroe, the creator of the popular web comic XKCD released his first book, “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.” The book used Munroe’s background ...

Randall Munroe's first book of scientific answers to the absurd questions people have was so popular that he wrote another one. In What If? 2, the author and cartoonist answers confusing and often ...

Randall Munroe is an engineer, author and cartoonist who is best known for creating the webcomic xkcd. With the tagline “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”, xkcd covers just about ...

When the students threw up their hands, Fermi would walk them through a rough-and-ready estimation process that went something like this: If we know Chicago has a population of about 3 million, and we ...

The new volume will continue in What If?’s absurd scientific footsteps, attempting to answer new questions from readers like how you’d ride a fire pole from the moon to Earth, or what would happen if ...

So question for you. If you unleashed a T. rex in New York City, how many humans would it have to eat to meet its basic caloric intake each day? My next guest says just half an adult per day, or an ...

A vast majority of the world's software runs on open-source code. Can it be secured? Fans of physics, chemistry, math, and astronomy will love these educational toys and kits. While waiting for your ...