Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be
frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing
Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, ten hundred)
most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most
interesting stuff there is, including:
* food-heating radio boxes (microwaves)
* tall roads (bridges)
* computer buildings (datacenters)
* the shared space house (the International Space Station)
* the other worlds around the sun (the solar system)
* the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates)
* the pieces everything