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A fun continuation of the quirky questions posed in the first installment, this book really highlights the precarious balance of the universe and how many ways in which everything could explode or implode or evaporate before having the chance to do either.

So you‘ve decided to evaporate a one-meter cube of iron in your backyard.

So you‘ve decided to install an ultracold cube of iron in your living room.

I remember liking the first one, but unfortunately, no matter how funny Munroe is (which is VERY), there's just too much math and physics for me to fully enjoy this one. That said, it's absolutely not a bad book for the more math inclined of the population.

still. Soupiter.

The problem here is that Munroe is so consistently funny that I get distracted from the content.

Soupiter.

I‘ve always wondered this myself and totally agree with the above 😆 #themoreyouknow

I like ridiculous questions because nobody is expected to know the answer, which means it's okay to be confused.

#FirstLineFridays, @ShyBookOwl

I needed to listen to something relaxing, and, as it turns out, funny math relaxes me. I don‘t know how much of it I internalized (not much, probably), but that wasn‘t the goal. A safe nonfiction choice. It seemed more concise than the first one. Still rambly, though—like a mantra.

3.5/5

Finished this fun yet educational book.

#nonfiction #science

130/150 I'm glad to see that this book was as informative, if silly, as the first book. The questions are ridiculous mostly, but the author's answers do make you think about things in a different way. I highly recommend the audiobook version, narrated by the ever delightful Wil Wheaton. 4⭐⭐⭐⭐

I enjoy this combination of in-depth research and amusing cartoons. I also really like the « weird and worrying » section where Munroe presents with little or no comment questions that are too weird for him to answer ?
October 2022 #BookSpin completed in record time for me!

Just like the first book, this one was a blast!

But beware of the fact that if you're reading this on your phone, it ends only 66.5% of the way through due to all of the indexing and source materials.

Olive Garden's breadstick "with garlic topping" is 140 calories, so in order to support your normal resting metabolism, you'd need to eat slightly less than one breadstick per hour. If you divide each breadstick into 20 bites, and chew them at a rate of 1 second per chew, and chew each bite 200 times, then you can have infinite breadsticks.

A small child asked Randall Monroe, XYCD comic creator, what would happen if the solar system filled with soup….it turns out that much soup is too dense. A black hole would form and rip the solar system and then the Milky Way apart. This is the type of earnest, ridiculous scientific debate I live for.

(Continued)...meters away from your window, you should put them closer than 1 meter.

In a broader sense, all water in the ocean has at some point been part of a dinosaur. When this water is used in photosynthesis, molecules from it become part of the fats and carbohydrates in the food chain--but a lot more of that water is in your body right now in the form of water.

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Out tomorrow! Do you like science and laughing? If so, What If 2 is for you! Munroe gives real science answers to crazy questions from adults and kids. My favorite is the top one, where Neptune and Uranus are big problems! Another had exponentially breeding dogs, where 10^101 Dalmatians take over the universe. I loved the Q about funneling Niagara Falls into a straw, too. While I‘ve enjoyed his audiobooks, the cartoons are great in the print book!

I‘ve read Munroe‘s other books on audio, and Wil Wheaton does a fantastic job of narrating, but I‘m excited to see the cartoons this time. Thanks @RiverheadBooks !

And I‘m thinking on two book reviews…another about elder care (because it‘s on my brain) and Mercury Pictures Presents, which I didn‘t like as much as I hoped to. 🤔🤔🤔