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a b Desat, Marla (2014-09-09). "Review: What If? Answers All Your (Literally) Burning Questions". The Escapist. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. This is a beautiful book for dreamers and those who like to explore the thought of if.... As such it will surprise you, make you want to keep on dreaming creatively and also to explore the world around you - both the natural world as we know it and one that could be. As well as phenomenal fiction, we also have children's books for all ages and interests. From learning to read, to bedtime stories, to books for older readers; the next book to steal your little one’s imagination and nurture their love of reading is just around the corner. Online at WHSmith you’ll find the classics that you know and love from your own childhood, such as Roald Dahl as well as fantastic new authors such as David Walliams, Jeff Kinney and Tom Fletcher. If an asteroid was very small but supermassive, could you really live on it like the Little Prince?"
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a b c Ballard, Ed (2014-03-20). "Seven Lessons From the XKCD 'What If' Comic Strip". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2016-04-06.
Q. What if every day, every human had a 1 percent chance of being turned into a turkey, and every turkey had a 1 percent chance of being turned into a human? - Kenneth I think this book would be a great gift for kids who love to ask crazy questions about how the world works. I think I would have loved it when I was 10. For all those people still here, and who obviously know Randall's work, let's just bask in the mixture of intelligence, cleverness, hilarity and properly labelled axes. All the nerd girls want to sleep with him and all nerd boys want to sleep with him too...be him.
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What would happen if everyone on Earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant?” Answer: “Within weeks, Rhode Island is a graveyard of billions.” Record and edit your own retelling of the story. Watch this video which shows the author telling the story: Q. What temperature would a chainsaw (or other cutting implement) need to be at to instantly cauterize any injuries inflicted with it? – Sylvia Gallaher(These are probably the worst in the book.) One of these that I wished he had answered was this one. star for including the weird and worrying questions from the inbox that he refused to answer--we should know our limits, people Munroe notes that the average person would be about a third of a pound lighter, then gives a list of several ways that one can lose that amount of weight easier [more safely too!] – such as peeing.a b Gilsdorf, Ethan (2014-09-08). " 'What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions' by Randall Munroe". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2016-04-06.
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Many of the pictures of Joe and his mum are coloured using different shades of a single colour. Can you create a picture of yourself using a similar technique? Sources:Mike's Maintenance Phase episode on the godfather of the "cafeteria nudge"Nudge: Concept, Effectiveness, and EthicsFrom mechanism to virtue: Evaluating Nudge theoryThe effectiveness of nudging: A meta-analysis of choice architecture interventions across behavioral domainsWhy the Most Important Idea in Behavioral Decision-Making Is a FallacyBehavioral WinterWhy Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?The Origins of Anti-Litter CampaignsDo Normative Appeals Affect Tax Compliance? Evidence from a Controlled Experiment in MinnesotaOpt-out legislations: the mysterious viability of the falseOpt-out policies capacity to increase organ donors is limitedAssessing Global Organ Donation Policies: Opt-In vs Opt-OutWhat Counts as a Nudge?Preventing Secondary Pregnancy In Adolescents: A Model ProgramThe Effect of Monetary Incentives and Peer Support Groups on Repeat Adolescent Pregnancies A Randomized Trial of the Dollar-a-Day ProgramThe i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astrayCan behavioural economics make us healthier?On the Supposed Evidence for Libertarian PaternalismA magnitude 15 earthquake would involve the release of almost [100 quintillion] joules of energy, which is roughly the gravitational binding energy of the Earth. To put it another way, the Death Star caused a magnitude 15 earthquake on Alderaan. Use a spreadsheet to plan the items needed for Joe’s birthday party. Can you set up a budget and make sure that you don’t spend too much money? Munroe also interspersed "Weird (and worrying) questions from the what if? inbox. ...Honestly, most of these weren't any weirder than the questions he was already answering. And sometimes I think they only seemed weird, but I think he may have missed the trail. But I think it's a legitimate question. And I'm pretty sure it comes from the movie SCREAM. - wasn't it a major plot point? So, Thomas, (the person who asked the question) wherever you are - I don't think you're a weirdo. (...Yeah, yeah, yeah... spoiler alert, if you're reading this in 1996... Although, I'd be willing to wager if anyone can travel through time, it's Munroe. He's sure studying that stuff. And Einstein. And Schrodinger. Also, probably J. Robert Oppenheimer.)
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