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How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World ProblemsAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "How To will make you laugh as you learn With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To." CNET " How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10 10 can recommend." Simone Giertz The world's most entertaining and useless self help guide from the
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"How To will make you laugh as you learn...With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To." --CNET
" How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend." --Simone Giertz
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the bestsellers 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 complex, excessive, and inadvisable 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. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 09/03/2019
ISBN: 9780525537090
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.00w x 1.20d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/17/2019
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2019
Library Journal 08/01/2019 pg. 118
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 10
Shelf Awareness 09/20/2019
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Sizing is way wayyy off.
Size: 5T, Color: Beige
I ordered three of these in different sizes for my 5yro&7yro -They’re average to their age sized kids.
So ordered size 5 for my 7 yro (I read other reviews on it being big). Everything fit except the pants we’re closer to a size 8 (I ordered a size 5 remember) so disappointed.
And a size 4 for my 5yro. The size 4 pants fit my 7yro! But not my 5yro at all. The rest of size 4 outfit was only a little big but not big enough to trade up to the other child. Unfortunately the gigantic pants are beyond the problem. They are definitely running 3 sizes too big. They’re not even something I could fix with my sewing machine. Company says they’ll work with you & send one item “free”but then say their shipping & handling fees are more expensive than the suit. Feels like it’s a ploy.
update, the third suit arrived after a month of waiting and its a size 3-well its supposed to be a size 3. The pants are the size of an 8 year old. Im pissed. it's now past the return date, I have 3 suits for $45 each, and I had to rig the pants to fit my 4yro for my wedding. looked like crap obviously bc an 8yro's pants don't fit a 4 yro.. Don't bother buying from this company unless you're buying for an absurdly proportioned person.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Absolutely loved it
Size: 12 Years, Color: Black
My son looked awesome in this suit! True to size. Great value for the price.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Great suit
Color: Light Grey (Stretch Fabric), Size: X-Small, Color: Light Grey (Stretch Fabric), Size: X-Small
My son wore on 2 different occasions. Very nice for the price. No one could believe what we paid for it.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Very high quality suit for the price! Might as well buy, then rent.
Color: Deep Grey (Stretch Fabric), Size: X-Small
I bought this for my son for his Prom, as he decided to go last minute. He weighs around 125 pounds and is about 5'11. The XS fit was pretty amazing. As the supplier says, follow the size chart on the second picture. There is also some stretch to the material and the pants have belt loops. The only thing we noticed that we didn't like is that the sleeves were a little large at the opening around the wrist. Since the cuff-links are sew on, there isn't really on easy way to adjust this. All in all, this was a great purchase and I would highly recommend YND suits.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Good buy for sure.
Color: Burgundy (Stretch Fabric), Size: X-Large
The suit looks and feels great for the price I’m 6’3 190-200lb and ordered a size XL. I’m going to have the sleeve dropped a tad bit and waist taken in. The hem is perfect and to my liking. Will be buying 2-3 in the future.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2026
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