Randall Munroe 
How To [EPUB ebook] 
Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd

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 BESTSELLERThe 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