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Randall Munroe's Absurd Scientific Advice For Real-World Problems Short Wave
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Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind the popular Internet comic xkcd, finds complicated solutions to simple, real-world problems. In the process, he reveals a lot about science and why the real world is sometimes even weirder than we expect. His latest book is called How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. (Encore episode.)
Here's more on nuclear tests of bottled beverages from nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein.
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Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind the popular Internet comic xkcd, finds complicated solutions to simple, real-world problems. In the process, he reveals a lot about science and why the real world is sometimes even weirder than we expect. His latest book is called How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. (Encore episode.)
Here's more on nuclear tests of bottled beverages from nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein.
Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.
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10 min