Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff In Simple Words

From The No. 1 Bestselling Author Of What If? - The Man Who Created Xkcd And Explained The Laws Of Science With Cartoons - Comes A Series Of Brilliantly Simple Diagrams ('Blueprints' If You Want To Be Complicated About It) That Show How Important Things Work: From The Nuclear Bomb To The Biro. It'S Good To Know What The Parts Of A Thing Are Called, But It'S Much More Interesting To Know What They Do. Richard Feynman Once Said That If You Can'T Explain Something To A First-Year Student, You Don'T Really Get It. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe Takes A Quantum Leap Past This: He Explains Things Using Only Drawings And A Vocabulary Of Just Our 1,000 (Or The Ten Hundred) Most Common Words. Many Of The Things We Use Every Day - Like Our Food-Heating Radio Boxes ('Microwave...Show More