'what if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions' by Randall Munroe.
If you're at all familiar with the xkcd online comic, you've got a glimpse of Munroe's delightful sense of humour, and this book is no different.
Ever wonder what would happen of you tried to collect ALL the elements of the periodic table in a display case? Spoiler alert: it would be really, really bad. Have you ever computed the odds of dialing a phone number at random and saying,'God bless you' to a person who just sneezed? No need, Munroe's done all the heavy lifting for you.
This is a really funny book. Although Munroe trained as a physicist and worked as a roboticist for NASA (cool points for that), the book touches on meterology, archery, genetics, printing out Wikipedia (don't try, you can't afford it), statistics and a helluva lot more.
Highly recommend it.
Boru
If you're at all familiar with the xkcd online comic, you've got a glimpse of Munroe's delightful sense of humour, and this book is no different.
Ever wonder what would happen of you tried to collect ALL the elements of the periodic table in a display case? Spoiler alert: it would be really, really bad. Have you ever computed the odds of dialing a phone number at random and saying,'God bless you' to a person who just sneezed? No need, Munroe's done all the heavy lifting for you.
This is a really funny book. Although Munroe trained as a physicist and worked as a roboticist for NASA (cool points for that), the book touches on meterology, archery, genetics, printing out Wikipedia (don't try, you can't afford it), statistics and a helluva lot more.
Highly recommend it.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson