Author Talk with Randall Munroe: xkcd Webcomic and What if? Series

Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Then join Randall Munroe online as we discuss his new book What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions!

Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of NYC to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer readers’ questions. Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall’s signature stick-figure comics, What if? 2 provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to ask.

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Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and author of several books, including the What If? series. After studying physics at university, he got a job building robots at NASA, but he left in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time. Since then, Munroe has been nominated for a Hugo Award three times and in 2013, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe.

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