Thing Explainer

Thing Explainer

By
Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe
2015 • 64 pages

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36 books

Non-Fiction

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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
Who Moved My Cheese?
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Jewish History, Jewish Religion
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

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3 books

Favorites

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Jo
The Angel Experiment
Thing Explainer
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe

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312 books

Considered

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Annie
The Science Delusion
Before the Big Bang
When Dimple Met Rishi
Anna and the French Kiss
Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age
Design in nature
Be Angry But Don't Blow It

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631 books

Owned

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The Storm We Made
The Intern
Wellness
The Haunted Showboat
The Clue in the Jewel Box
The Fox Wife
Ahsoka

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127 books

To Find Buy

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Juliette DESEILLIGNY
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Relativity
What doesn't kill us how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning will renew our lost evolutionary strength
Anatomy Trains
Why Knot?
Traité du funambulisme
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

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359 books

Nonfiction

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What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Обезьяны, нейроны и душа
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Year of Living Biblically
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Grand Design
No Logo

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25 books

Humor

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Alexander
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Drop dead healthy one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
The Year of Living Biblically
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
Thing Explainer

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5 books

Technology

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Packing for Mars
Thing Explainer
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
How Music Got Free
The Shallows

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30 books

Physics

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The Universe in a Nutshell
The Nature of Space and Time
Brief History of Time
The Grand Design
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Thing Explainer
Time Reborn

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0 books

Owned

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All Our Shimmering Skies
Black Tide
Carpentaria
Grave Peril
Catch-22

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22 books

Technology

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The Alignment Problem
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
How Google Works
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Life 3.0

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59 books

Year 2018

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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
I Can't Breathe
We Are Legion
Age of Swords
Artemis
Grimoire of the Lamb
Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions

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417 books

High Priority

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Deep Learning
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Programming the Universe
Energy and Civilization: A History
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Selfish Gene

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19 books

Engineering

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The most powerful idea in the world
Hackerlar
507 Mechanical Movements
How We Got to Now
The Pattern on the Stone
101 Things I Learned in Engineering School

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441 books

Dot

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The America's Test Kitchen Cooking School Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Become a Great Cook
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
The Intelligent Investor
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Hacking The Art Of Exploitation
Autobiography of a yogi
The Annotated Turing

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62 books

To Read 2018

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Thing Explainer
The Three-Body Problem
The Future Is History
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
Nexus

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53 books

Science

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The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics
Fermat's last theorem
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Drunkard's Walk
The Dragons of Eden
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Universe in a Nutshell

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858 books

Owned

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Make Your Mark
Maximize Your Potential
Manage Your Day-To-Day
Lies Sleeping
The Furthest Station
The Hanging Tree
Foxglove Summer

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48 books

Comics

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Saga, Vol. 5
Saga, Vol. 1
Doom Patrol, Vol. 4: Musclebound
Star Wars: The High Republic: Edge of Balance, Vol. 1
Star wars, crimson empire III
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981

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63 books

Culture

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Caste
Fermat's last theorem
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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63 books

Science

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
The World Is Flat
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
The God Delusion
Fermat's last theorem
Bad Science

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17 books

Ravenclaw Reading List

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Akata Witch
To Be or Not To Be
Where Am I Now?
Thing Explainer
The Martian
Modern Romance
Outlander

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2 books

Owned

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Was, wenn wir einfach die Welt retten? Handeln in der Klimakrise
The Ascent of Rum Doodle
Before Your Memory Fades
Are You Experienced?
AchtNacht
Ready Player One

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167 books

Non Fiction

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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
Nadishta
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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258 books

2016 Reads

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