{"id":400,"date":"2018-09-28T15:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T13:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2018-09-28T15:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T13:01:06","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/09\/28\/what-if\/","title":{"rendered":"What if? by Randall Munroe"},"content":{"rendered":"
Genre: popular science. \u2b50\ufe0fStars from Goodreads: 4.17.\u2b50\ufe0fStars from me: 5.<\/p>\n
What if this lake dries out completely? Piva lake is an artificial lake, but even this lake lost a lot of water last summer. It was that hot.<\/p>\n What if?<\/em><\/a>\u00a0visited Piva lake and even though the book doesn’t answer any questions about the lake, it answers many other unusual questions. Here\u2019s the book\u2019s photo session and review.<\/p>\n What if?<\/em> is a masterpiece by Randall Munroe<\/a>. As the book states on its cover, it contains \u201cserious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n I am quite far away from science. Apart from a wish to understand things, I possess no scientific inclinations. Yet I laughed my head off while reading this book. No other book ever made me laugh so much.<\/p>\n Randall Munroe is a unique author because he\u2019s both a famous cartoonist and a scientist. The book is a collection of absurd questions the author had been receiving on his blog and his answers to them. Here are some examples of the questions:<\/p>\n The answers are accompanied by Munroe\u2019s illustrations.<\/p>\n Some questions are so weird they received no answer but a cartoon.<\/p>\n Truth be told there are some rare moments when Randall goes deeper into formulas and explanations and I did skip those parts. I have formula intolerance. I don\u2019t like numbers. Even phone numbers make me drowsy. Still I was able to enjoy this book very much.<\/p>\n Here’s a Wikipedia article<\/a> about the book if you want to learn more.\u00a0I think it’s better to order a paper copy of the book<\/a>, not a digital one, because of all the illustrations.<\/p>\n I highly recommend this book. It\u2019s an awesome read and a great present for anybody with a curious mind.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The book is a masterpiece that contains \u201cserious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions\u201d. It’s hilarious and interesting. Read on for more photos and the review. Continue reading What if? by Randall Munroe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[140,267,465,483,493,666,667],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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