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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER How To will make you laugh as you learnWith How To, you cant help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanitys effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you wont go wrong with How To. CNET [How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend. Simone Giertz The worlds most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, theres a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. Its full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if youre a baby boomer or a 90s kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once youre done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earths mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesnt just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.

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Do not try any of this at home. The author of this book is an internet cartoonist, not a health or safety expert. He likes it when things catch fire or explode, which means he does not have your best interests in mind. The publisher and the author disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects resulting, directly or indirectly, from information contained in this book.

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Hello!

This is a book of bad ideas.

At least, most of them are bad ideas. Its possible some good ones slipped through the cracks. If so, I apologize.

Some ideas that sound ridiculous turn out to be revolutionary. Smearing mold on an infected cut sounds like a terrible idea, but the discovery of penicillin showed that it could be a miracle cure. On the other hand, the world is full of disgusting stuff that you could smear on a wound, and most of them wont make it better. Not all ridiculous ideas are good. So how do we tell the good ideas from the bad?

We can try them and see what happens. But sometimes, we can use math, research, and things we already know to work out what will happen if we do.

When NASA was planning to send its car-size Curiosity rover to Mars, they had to figure out how to land it gently on the surface. Previous rovers had landed using parachutes and air bags, so NASA engineers considered this approach with Curiosity, but the rover was too large and heavy for parachutes to slow it down enough in Marss thin atmosphere. They also thought about mounting rockets on the rover to let it hover and touch down gently, but the exhaust would create dust clouds that would obscure the surface and make it hard to land safely.

Eventually, they came up with the idea of a sky cranea vehicle that would hover high above the surface using rockets while lowering Curiosity to the ground on a long tether. This sounded like a ridiculous idea, but every other idea they could come up with was worse. The more they looked at the sky crane idea, the more plausible it seemed. So they tried it, and it worked.

We all start out life not knowing how to do things. If were lucky, when we need to do something, we can find someone to show us how. But sometimes, we have to come up with a way to do it ourselves. This means thinking of ideas and then trying to decide whether theyre good or not.

This book explores unusual approaches to common tasks, and looks at what would happen to you if you tried them. Figuring out why they would or wouldnt work can be fun and informative and sometimes lead you to surprising places. Maybe an idea is bad, but figuring out exactly why its a bad idea can teach you a lotand might help you think of a better approach.

And even if you already know the right way to do all these things, it can be helpful to try to look at the world through the eyes of someone who doesnt. After all, for anything that everyone knows by the time they reach adulthood, every day over 10,000 people in the United States alone are learning it for the first time.

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Thats why I dont like making fun of people for admitting they dont know something or never learned how to do something. Because if you do that, all it does is teach them not to tell you when theyre learning something... and you miss out on the fun.

This book may not teach you how to throw a ball, how to ski, or how to move. But I hope you learn something from it. If you do, youre one of todays lucky 10,000.

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How to Jump Really High

People cant jump very high.

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Basketball players make some impressive leaps to reach hoops placed high in the air, but most of their reach comes from their height. An average professional basketball player can only jump a little more than 2 feet straight up. Non-athletes are more likely limited to jumping a foot or so. If you want to jump higher than that, youll need some help.

Using a running start can help. This is what athletes competing in the high jump do, and the world record height is 8 feet. However, thats measured from the ground. Since high jumpers tend to be tall, their center of mass starts off several feet off the ground, and because of how they fold their bodies to pass over the bar, their center of mass may actually pass under it. An 8-foot high jump doesnt involve launching the center of their body anything like the full 8 feet.

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If you want to beat a high jumper, you have two options:

  1. Dedicate your life to athletic training, from an early age, until you become the worlds best high jumper.

  2. Cheat.

The first option is no doubt an admirable one, but if thats your choice, then youre reading the wrong book. Lets talk about option two.

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