What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If a Jew, a Muslim, a Christian, and a Hindu stood around the results, no one would dispute the finding. Although Adam can give much more thorough, in-depth answers to science-related questions than Betty, Collins would say that he can never have scientific knowledge, because he cannot interact with scientists in his field. Let's pretend the Bible claims life on earth is carbon-based. Mar 19, 2014 - And Popular Mechanics had most of the specifications of the Stealth Bomber (and fighter) long before it was publicly revealed……seriously, if you even had one iota of intelligence, you'd realize how absurd the notion of the kinds of cover-ups you claim….. 2 days ago - “If you get your information only from the journals, you can't tell whether a paper is being taken seriously by the scientific community or not,” says Collins. Oct 28, 2008 - This constraint, although important, is not a practical barrier to resolution, because science that works is easy to distinguish from science that doesn't. The question has a number of important implications. Mar 12, 2014 - What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions will be published September 2nd by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? I was more giving a hypothetical example. Later on, scientific analysis demonstrates this fact. Dogmatic answers Here's a hypothetical example. €You cannot get a good picture of what is . Jan 5, 2014 - Religion's answers to scientific questions failed to satisfy; and the inherent flaw is the nature of dogmatism itself. Mar 12, 2014 - Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. Nov 12, 2013 - I was signed up to go to that event just because I wanted to see if there were any cool Austrians in the immediate SoCal area, and I bailed at the last minute because I decided driving 3 hours and back to Malibu to go to a Koch-funded event likely filled with a bunch of clueless “minarchists” would be a And I guess it's especially hard to avoid this temptation when the scientific niche that's most important or familiar to you is physics, because in a material sense it DOES. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? Mar 22, 2014 - “What if” has the hilarious and informative answers to important scientific questions you probably never thought to ask from the creator of webcomic xkcd. If 49% only believed in one conspiracy, that only means that 51% answered either (a) Do Not Believe, or (b) I Don't Know, to all the questions.