by Randall Munroe
I had two hours reads going today, The Thin Man and Real World by Natsuo Kirino for the Terrifying Women square, and I got to feeling a tad oppressed by the dark and the existential dread. It was bad: I had two hours to kill by myself in Target and I walked out with nothing, because there was just n...
“Trees make babies by dropping tiny wooden tree eggs on the ground.” It's no big news that I worship the ground Randall Munroe steps on. The idea of NASA scientist turned artist turned writer has a big appeal to me. Specially because he never really leaves behind the things he loves. He simply mix...
Really I’ve been flipping through this for a while (it’s not generally something you read cover to cover), but I restarted at the beginning and read through it more systematically so that I could count it as one of the Summer Bingo Books. I’m counting it as “Beach, sand or sun on the cover” because...
I'm not sure what to say about this beyond just regurgitating the Publisher's Description. If that's not enough to make you want to pick this up for at least a glance, I don't think I could say anything that will. But, quickly, the idea behind the book is that using drawings/diagrams and the 1,000...
This must have been a bitch to edit. I bought this sight unseen (or asked for it on my xmas list anyway) based on my adoration for his first book What If? Thing Explainer is much shorter - only 60 pages - and the concept is very cool; explain how some of the most common things work. What I didn...
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