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> Tag: theoretical physics

cbr12bingo – How To!

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe

September 16, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 1 Comment

Randall Munroe, the engineer/author/cartoonist extraordinaire (most importantly- the creator of the excellent webcomic xkcd) is at it again with How To. He takes all sorts of simple questions and expands, explodes, and/or completely blows up the possible answers into a cacophony of hard science and absolute absurdity. Say you want to throw something really far- he starts out with an anecdote about George Washington hucking (technical term) a silver dollar across a river, which turns into a breakdown of how far silver dollars could be […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: absurdity, cartoonist, cbr12bingo, How-To, math, physics, popular science, Randall Munroe, science, Self-help, silly science, theoretical physics, webcomic, What If?, xkcd

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:102 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: absurdity, cartoonist, cbr12bingo, How-To, math, physics, popular science, Randall Munroe, science, Self-help, silly science, theoretical physics, webcomic, What If?, xkcd ·
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I’ll be fine,” said Bayliss. “I just need to dinosaur Jell-O escalator.”

June 30, 2017 by borisanne 2 Comments

When I read The Everything Box, it never occured to me that it was the first in a series!! HUZZAH AND HURRAY, more Coop! I love these books. I’m going to get to more Richard Kadrey eventually (see also: I’m working through the “Dark Tower” series AND the “Rivers of London” series concurrently, currently), because I absolutely howl with laughter when I read his books, and I cannot put them down unless absolutely compelled to. He is my new Douglas Adams. I’m on board for […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: coop, department of peculiar science, dops, elephant, gadgets, kadrey, magic, mayhem, mummies, mummy, Richard Kadrey, spooks, theoretical physics, Urban Fantasy

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: coop, department of peculiar science, dops, elephant, gadgets, kadrey, magic, mayhem, mummies, mummy, Richard Kadrey, spooks, theoretical physics, Urban Fantasy ·
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  • narfna on We will present our findings together. I will impress my sponsor. You will make a name for yourself and set the scientific community clamouring for your book, which I understand is out next year.I met an Irish wolfhound for the first time in real life two days ago and the first thing I thought after WHOA BIG was,...
  • Malin on Nobody Should Ever Let Me Live-Text Them About Anything, Ever AgainOK, a whole bunch of people have told me that I need to read these books, but it was your review that convinced me that...
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