How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
By: Randall Munroe
4.16
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildl…
Want to Read $ 4.99"It turns out that if you accelerate at 1 G for several years, you can reach almost any destination in the universe. After a few years have passed [traveling at that rate], the effects of relativity really start to add up. When 3 years have passed for you ... you'll have traveled nearly 10 light-years - far enough to reach many nearby stars. If you continue accelerating, it would take you less than 20 years of your time to reach a neighboring galaxy. If you keep pressing the accelerator for a little over two decades, you'll find your vehicle traveling billions of light-years per subjective "year", carrying you across a substantial fraction of the observable universe."-Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
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1. We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
By: Jorge Cham , Daniel Whiteson
4.28
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Prepare to learn everything we still don't know about our strange, mostly mysterious universe. P… read more
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"Antiwater would look and feel and behave the same way as regular water except that if you drank it you would explode in a blinding flash of light, which, we admit, would be antirefreshing."-Jorge Cham, We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
"A single gram of antiparticles combined with a gram of normal particles would release more than 40 kilotonnes of explosive force, which is more than twice as powerful as the atomic bombs dropped by t…"-Jorge Cham, We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
2. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
By: None
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
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3. Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
By: Zach Weinersmith , Kelly Weinersmith
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Hardcover
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4. Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
By: Philip Plait
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lively astronomy primer that uses cataclysmic scenarios to explain the universe's most fascinatin… read more
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5. And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling Over Niagara
By: Cody Cassidy , Paul Doherty
3.32
Format: 240 pages,
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7. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
8. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
By: Cody Cassidy
4.06
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
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9. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
By: Philipp Dettmer
4.59
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more
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10. Saint Richard Parker
By: Merlin Franco
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
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11. The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
By: Nancy Omeara
4.33
Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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13. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
By: Randall Munroe
4.16
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildl… read more
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14. How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
By: Ryan North
4.14
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
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15. Math with Bad Drawings
By: Ben Orlin
4.22
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
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"Reality is a lovely starting point, but the coolest destinations lie far beyond it."-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings
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16. Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games―And Why They Matter
By: Ben Orlin
4.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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"Why are mathematical games so universal? I truly don't know. But perhaps it's because the universe is so mathematical."-Ben Orlin, Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games―And Why They Matter
"The secret to our brilliance is that we never stop learning, and the secret to our learning is that we never stop playing."-Ben Orlin, Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games―And Why They Matter
"Filling a mind with facts is not like filling a vessel with water. For anyone with a worldview—that is, anyone with a pulse—assimilation is an active process."-Ben Orlin, Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games―And Why They Matter
17. How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
By: Ryan North
4.01
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
A tongue-in-cheek introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, revealing the true poten… read more
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18. Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe
By: Jorge Cham
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
Delightful, funny, and yet rigorous and intelligent: only Jorge and Daniel can reach this exquisite… read more
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19. The Planets
By: Andrew Cohen
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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20. Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
By: Ben Orlin
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"Psychology: it's sociology for sociopaths."-Ben Orlin, Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
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"Paradox is the grain of sand that helps form the pearl of theory."-Ben Orlin, Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
"All the world's a differential equation, and the men and women are merely variables."-Ben Orlin, Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
21. Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
By: Grady Hillhouse
4.26
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
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