About the Book: Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff In Simple Words
From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If?-the man who created xkcd and
explained the laws of science with cartoons-comes a series of brilliantly simple
diagrams (blueprints if you want to be complicated about it) that show how
important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro. Its good to know what
the parts of a thing are called, but its much more interesting to know what they
do. Richard Feynman once said that if you cant explain something to a first-year
student, you dont really get it. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe takes