What If?

Praise for Randall Munroe, What If? and xkcd: 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 Randall Munroe is a national treasure. -Phil Plait For scientists, the price of progress is specialization. When the goal of any researcher is to lay claim to a tiny niche in a crowded discipline, it's hard for laypeople to find answers to the really important interdisciplinary questions. Questions like, 'Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?' Fortunately, such people can turn to Randall Munroe, the author of the XKCD comic strip loved by fans of internet culture. . . . For Munroe, who writes with a clarity and wit honed over eight years of writing captions for his webcomic, the fact that a question might be impossible to solve is no deterrent to pursuing it. - Wall Street Journal Speakeasy blog By speaking the language of geeks. . . while dealing with...

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