Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to
be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to
help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the
thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words to provide simple
explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is,
including:
food-heating radio boxes (microwaves)
tall roads (bridges)
computer buildings (datacenters)
the shared space house (the International Space Station)
the other worlds around the sun (the solar system)
the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates)
the pieces everything is made of (the periodic table)
planes with turning wings (helicopters)
boxes that make clothes smell better (washers and dryers)
the bags of stuff inside you (cells)
How do these things work? Where do they come from? What would life be
like without them? And what would happen if we opened them up, heated
them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or
pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the
answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and
always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever
wondered how things work, and why.
Author(s): Randall Munroe
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year: 2015
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE BEFORE THE BOOK STARTS
SHARED SPACE HOUSE
TINY BAGS OF WATER YOU’RE MADE OF
HEAVY METAL POWER BUILDING
RED WORLD SPACE CAR
BAGS OF STUFF INSIDE YOU
BOXES THAT MAKE CLOTHES SMELL BETTER
EARTH’S SURFACE
UNDER A CAR’S FRONT COVER
SKY BOAT WITH TURNING WINGS
THE US’S LAWS OF THE LAND
THE US’S LAWS OF THE LAND
FOOD-HEATING RADIO BOX
SHAPE CHECKER
LIFTING ROOM
BOAT THAT GOES UNDER THE SEA
BOX THAT CLEANS FOOD HOLDERS
BIG FL AT ROCKS WE LIVE ON
CLOUD MAPS
TREE
MACHINE FOR BURNING CITIES
WATER ROOM
COMPUTER BUILDING
US SPACE TEAM’S UP GOER FIVE
SKY BOAT PUSHER
STUFF YOU TOUCH TO FL Y A SKY BOAT
BIG TINY THING HITTER
POWER BOXES
HOLE-MAKING CITY BOAT
STUFF IN THE EARTH WE CAN BURN
TALL ROADS
BENDING COMPUTER
WORLDS AROUND THE SUN
PICTURE TAKER
WRITING STICKS
HAND COMPUTER
COLORS OF LIGHT
THE SKY AT NIGHT
THE PIECES EVERYTHING IS MADE OF
OUR STAR
HOW TO COUNT THINGS
ROOM FOR HELPING PEOPLE
PLAYING FIELDS
EARTH’S PAST
TREE OF LIFE
THE TEN HUNDRED WORDS PEOPLE USE THE MOST
HELPERS
SKY TOUCHER
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index
