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2024-11-24
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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...
评分不记得什么渠道看到这本书,就记下来,买回来自己看的。没有想到,这本书被我家小屁孩霸占了!成了3岁半小孩子的睡前故事! 书中是以图的形式表现的,但是实际上,文字部分非常多,有很多图上的注释之类的,是小孩子可以理解的平实的科学知识。 我家孩子最喜欢“高路”,“汽车...
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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.
Over-simplification lowered the quality of this book.
评分应该完全是给小学三年级以下的人看的,任何稍微懂得相关术语的人再看这本书时都不得不费力思考这些simple words所指涉的概念,这大约就是沃格林说的语言的分殊化是个不可逆的过程——没有人愿意在知道更准确表达方式的前提下仍然忍受一般化和弱智化的表达。
评分综合类的青少年科普书。图文并茂。
评分想法不错,画风也有卖点,但实际上感觉不出explain了多少东西。
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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