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Clodfobble · 11-13-2015, 02:29 PM

Randall Monroe writes the comic xkcd.

Awhile back he wrote a book called "What If?" providing funny but accurate answers to highly theoretical and weird questions, which Minifob loved.

Now he's coming out with a new book called "Thing Explainer," which explains common scientific principles, but only using the 1000 most common words in the English language (which must be called "ten-hundred," because "thousand" isn't one of them.) To illustrate the concept and promote the book, he teamed up with a popular YouTube channel to create a sample video about becoming an astronaut, or "How to Go to Space." It's fucking hiliarious.

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Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Randall Monroe writes the comic xkcd. Awhile back he wrote a book called "What If?" providing funny but accurate answers to highly theoretical and weird questions, which Minifob loved. Now he's coming out with a new book called "Thing Explainer," which explains common scientific principles, but only using the 1000 most common words in the English language (which must be called "ten-hundred," because "thousand" isn't one of them.) To illustrate the concept and promote the book, he teamed up with a popular YouTube channel to create a sample video about becoming an astronaut, or "How to Go to Space." It's fucking hiliarious. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal