The world just got a little less mysterious.
Author Randall Munroe, the creator of xkcd, is back with a new book, Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff In Simple Words. Inspired by his comic Up Goer Five, which explains the anatomy of a spaceship, Thing Explainer uses Munroe's signature illustrations to demystify some of the modern world's daily miracles. If you ever watned to know how a ballpoint pen or the solar system work, Munroe's got you covered.
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"The diagrams in Thing Explainer cover all kinds of neat stuff," writes Munroe in a blog post. "Including computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the stuff you use to steer a plane (airliner cockpit controls) and the little bags of water you’re made of (cells)."
Thing Explainer is available on November 24. Until then, here's a sneak peek at the book's cover and the wisdom found within its pages.
