Jak na to - Absurdní vědecká řešení obyčejných každodenních problémů – Munroe Randall (2020)

The most entertaining and least useful home advisor. From the imaginative creator of the popular webcomic xkcd and the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer. Whatever you decide to do, there is always a good solution, a bad solution, and a solution so upside down that no sane person would attempt it. How To is a guide to the third of these approaches. The book is full of highly impractical advice for various activities from landing an airplane to digging holes. Popular author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing pixels in Facebook photos. He will teach you to determine if you are an old-timer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity in your teeth. He advises you on how to take a selfie with a telescope, how to cross a river by bringing it to a boil, or how to destroy the moon to make it to a meeting on time. And if you want to get rid of this book after reading it, it will guide you through various suitable disposal options, including dissolving it in the sea, changing its state to vapor, sucking it into the Earth's mantle using tectonic plates, or shooting it into the sun. Exploring complicated solutions to simple tasks is not just a gimmick that Munroe uses to give himself and his readers extra work. Just like in What If…