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2025-02-07
Thing Explainer 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
“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...
评分看了《万物解释者》,可还是无法给同乘的小孩,讲清楚为什么电梯不会掉下去。 《场论》曾经考了99分,可还是没法给化学博士的弟弟,讲清楚电场的美妙。 也许,我们从来都不缺乏对于复杂问题的理解,而是匮乏于对于复杂问题的表达。 所以,我们需要科普漫画书,需要像兰道尔·门...
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...
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.
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评分It was mentioned on Gates Notes, so I took a look. It's indeed a good book. I wish it was published when I was little. It's fun to read, and more importantly, it makes sense of things. Thing explainer.
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评分It was mentioned on Gates Notes, so I took a look. It's indeed a good book. I wish it was published when I was little. It's fun to read, and more importantly, it makes sense of things. Thing explainer.
Thing Explainer 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书