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What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSIC WITH A SPECIAL EDITION. THIS IS WHAT IF? . . . x10. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Nerd royalty' — BEN GOLDACRE 'Totally brilliant' — TIM HARFORD 'Required reading across the world' — NEW YORK TIMES From the... Read More
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What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

BRAND NEW ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO CELEBRATE A DECADE OF WHAT IF?

Science's most intriguing questions answered by the web's favourite writer, the genius behind xkcd.com: Munroe's hilarious and compelling answers explain everything from the odds of meeting your one true soulmate to how many humans a rampaging T-Rex would need to eat a day.

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CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSIC WITH A SPECIAL EDITION. THIS IS WHAT IF? . . . x10. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Nerd royalty' — BEN GOLDACRE

'Totally brilliant' — TIM HARFORD

'Required reading across the world' — NEW YORK TIMES

From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, experience hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.

Fans of Randall Munroe ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T. Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day?

In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)

In celebration of 10 years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revised his classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10. Featuring brand-new 2-colour annotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition will leave you feeling much smarter, whether you have a Nobel Prize or not.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399818964

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 November 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 186.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 880g

Pages: 328

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About the Author

Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and bestselling author of What If?, Thing Explainer and xkcd: Volume 0. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006 he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full time, and has since been nominated for a Hugo Award three times. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth.

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