Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask One key to the strip's success may be that it doesn't just comment on nerd culture, it embodies nerd culture." - Wired, in an issue featuring "the people who have shaped the planet's past 20 years" "With his steady regimen of math jokes, physics jokes, and antisocial optimism, xkcd creator Randall Munroe, a former NASA roboticist, scores traffic numbers in NBC.com or territory. The delightfully demented What If? is the most fun you can have with math and science, short of becoming your own evil genius." - Boston Globe "It's fun to watch as Munroe tackles each question and examines every possible complication with nerdy and methodical aplomb. An illuminating handbook of methods of reasoning." - Wall Street Journal "Consistently fascinating and entertaining.Munroe leavens the hard science with whimsical touches. "Extreme astrophysics and indecipherable chemistry have rarely been this clearly explained or this consistently hilarious." - Entertainment Weekly "10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year" "Randall Munroe is a national treasure." -Phil Plait "What If? is one of my Internet must-reads, and I look forward to each new installment, and always read it with delight." -Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing "A delight for science geeks with a penchant for oddball thought experiments." - Kirkus A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time. Randall Munroe is the author of the number one New York Times bestsellers How To, What If?, and Thing Explainer the science question-and-answer blog What If? and the popular web comic xkcd.
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