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

by Randall Munroe

"Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty'"
—Ben Goldacre

"Totally brilliant"
—Tim Harford

"Laugh-out-loud funny"
—Bill Gates

"Wonderful"
—Neil Gaiman

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer

For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.

"How strange science can fix everyday problems"
—New Scientist

"A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride"
—Nature