Randall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What If?, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd. 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, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they’re getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.
发表于2025-04-17
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“话说谷歌公司有一道很常用的面试题,就是你能把一件我不知道的事情两三分钟跟我讲明白吗?这道题当然首先考的是你的知识水准啦,但更重要的是在很短的时间内、面对一个外行把一件很复杂的事情说清楚,这个是很重要的能力呀。过去只有行业内的大师级人物才有,而未来呢跨界协...
评分本文为比尔盖茨为Randall Munroe新书《Thing Explainer:Complicated Stuffin Simple Words》(中文译本《万物解释者》)所写的书评。 由WPDang发表于界面 我发现在慈善行业里,术语是一个问题,比如在健康领域工作时,你自然会听到讨论最新医学研究时会蹦出来的那些词汇,...
评分如果地球上所有人同时将激光笔对准月亮,月亮的颜色会发生什么变化? 上周四(0630)晚上,我心下仰慕已久的世界级著名Geek兰道尔·门罗(Randall Munroe)在北京的一家书店里,用全部的演讲时间,讲述了自己是如何探究这个看起来毫无意义的问题的。【为什么毫无意义?首先,...
评分如果地球上所有人同时将激光笔对准月亮,月亮的颜色会发生什么变化? 上周四(0630)晚上,我心下仰慕已久的世界级著名Geek兰道尔·门罗(Randall Munroe)在北京的一家书店里,用全部的演讲时间,讲述了自己是如何探究这个看起来毫无意义的问题的。【为什么毫无意义?首先,...
评分这是一本比较另类的百科全书。无论是小朋友,学生还是家长,都可以在这本书里面获得极大的收获。正所谓是无图无真相,这本书在这方面做的真的很不错,他以图为骨架文字为血肉,在没有使用专业名词的情况下,用最简单的生活常见词汇对几句,几十个跨度性极大复杂,而且高精尖的...
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Have you ever tried to read up on some incredible part of the world, only to find yourself faced with incomprehensible terminology and jargon? It’s nice to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it’s even more interesting to know what they do. What if you had something that could clearly explain it all using simple words?
Thing Explainer, by Randall Munroe, does just that. Using line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words, he provides simple explanations for some of the world’s most interesting things: our food-heating radio boxes (microwaves), our very tall roads (bridges), and our computer buildings (datacenters). He also explains the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells).
Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever wondered how things work, and why.
就真正挑战的是如何用文末那1000个简单词去描述复杂事物。
评分读这书的很大一部分乐趣来源于单凭标题,或者正文先来猜测一番作者指的是什么。于我而言,最有用有益的部分是美国宪法及修正案一节,不知这部分在中国译本里是否保留了。
评分谐谑有点过了 ...
评分如何用1000个常用英语单词来描述与介绍复杂事物(比如国际空间站、核弹等等),这本书给出了很好的解决方式,那就是巧妙利用二者之间的相同点(比如细胞cell被称为袋子bag)进行转述。为了更精准的表达不同的事物,我们创造以及选择复杂的词汇,但请先暂时忘掉复杂的GRE词汇,试着用简单的生活用词来表达同样的事物,这也大概是婴儿不断学习词汇的必经之路,也是我们初学外语身在异国他乡时的第一感受。书中的黑白蓝配图特别精美,作者也是著名漫画xkcd的创作人,没事的时候可以翻一翻,尝试猜测作者到底在描述什么以及换做自己如何描述更为贴切。
评分书中巨无霸!应该是半开纸。酷炫~!内容涉及很广,而且真的都是超级简单的单词。真的怎么四处安利这本书都不过分吗。一个字,买。
Thing Explainer 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书