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| − | {{Quote|For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. ''How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems'' is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's the world's least useful self-help book.|[[Randall Munroe]]|[https://xkcd.com/how-to/ Source]}} | + | {{Quote|For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. '''''How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems''''' is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's the world's least useful self-help book.|[[Randall Munroe]]|[https://xkcd.com/how-to/ Source]}} |
| − | [[File:HowTo.jpg| | + | [[File:HowTo.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The cover of the book. There is also an [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:HowToAlt.png alternate cover of the book].]] |
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'''''How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems''''' is a book by [[Randall|Randall Munroe]]. | '''''How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems''''' is a book by [[Randall|Randall Munroe]]. | ||
Randall explains it this way: "It describes how to cross a river by removing all the water, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and teaches you how to use experimental military research to ensure that your friends will never again ask you to help them move." | Randall explains it this way: "It describes how to cross a river by removing all the water, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and teaches you how to use experimental military research to ensure that your friends will never again ask you to help them move." | ||
| − | The book became available on September 3, 2019. However, he began promoting it in the [[Header | + | The book became available on September 3, 2019. However, he began promoting it in the [[xkcd Header text]] at the top of the comic on [[xkcd_Header_text#2019-02-06_-_How_to_book|February 2019]]. Since then, the header has most of the time been a promotion for the book. |
A month before the release, he made an entire comic about the book (not a real comic but a temporary one-day comic): [[Disappearing Sunday Update]]. | A month before the release, he made an entire comic about the book (not a real comic but a temporary one-day comic): [[Disappearing Sunday Update]]. | ||
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_To:_Absurd_Scientific_Advice_for_Common_Real-World_Problems This page at Wikipedia] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_To:_Absurd_Scientific_Advice_for_Common_Real-World_Problems This page at Wikipedia] | ||
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