I’m excited to announce that I’m publishing a What If? sequel! What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions will be in stores 9/13, and is available for preorder now! In What If 2, I answer new questions I’ve receieved in the years since What If? was released. People have asked about …
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Book tour wrap-up
Thank you to everyone who came to events on my book tour! It was a wild ride visiting so many cities in short succession. Thank you so much to the booksellers, venues, and especially to the wonderful people who co-hosted the tour events with me: Kate Darling, Alexandra Petri, Lev Grossman, Jim Ottaviani, Ken Jennings, …
How to Send a File
My new book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, comes out in a week! You can preorder it now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, and Apple Books. Here’s an excerpt from the How To chapter on file transfers. Chapter 19: How to Send a File Sending large data files can be difficult. Modern software systems have moved …
Book tour and contest winner
The winner We got a huge number of submissions to the How To book tour challenge, and I’m delighted to announce the winner: The How To book tour will be taking me to Juneau, Alaska, thanks to an entry from Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley Public Library. The 98-person entry was submitted in a series of four …
Serena Versus the Drones
My new book, How To, comes out on September 3rd (preorder: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, and Apple Books). One of the most exciting things about writing How To was that, for a few chapters, I was able to reach out to some extremely cool people who were willing to apply their unique expertise to ridiculous …
Win an xkcd sketch
Want a personalized sketch of yourself as an xkcd-style stick figure? If so, you can preorder my new book How To and submit this form to enter a contest to win a personalized sketch of yourself! Fifteen entrants will be randomly chosen to win a personalized stick figure portrait. I’ll draw a sketch of you …
How To: Chapter list and introduction
My new book, How To, comes out next month! You can preorder it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, and Apple Books. I’m really excited about it! Here’s the first preview of what’s inside: Chapter list How to Jump Really High How to Throw a Pool Party How to Dig a Hole How to Play the Piano …
San Diego Comic-Con
I’m going to be at Comic-Con in San Diego this week! I’ll be appearing on panels with some really neat people for conversations about science, comics, and writing, and talking about my new book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. Here’s my panel/event schedule. If you’re attending, come see me there! THURSDAY …
Book tour announcement!
My new book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, is coming out on September 3rd, and I’ll be going on a short book tour! (Full information for each stop is included at the bottom of this post.) How to invite me to your town Don’t see your city on the list? You can …
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
I’m excited to announce that I have a new book coming out! It’s titled How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, and it’s an extremely unhelpful guide to solving everyday problems. How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and …
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