THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hil
arious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought
to ask. Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webco
mic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump,
driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? Wh
en will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many huma
ns would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day? In pursuit of ans
wers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified milita
ry research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor op
erators.
His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented
by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at lea
st a really big explosion.
