在《Thing Explainer》中，Randall Munroe 以工程師的精確與漫畫家的創意，挑戰用「最簡單的字」說明「最困難的事」。從微波爐、電腦伺服器到核能反應爐，他以清楚的線條與少見的想像力，將日常物品與宇宙現象化為易懂的圖說。這本書不僅是知識的導覽，也是一場語言與理解的實驗。讀者能在笑聲與驚訝中，看見萬物如何運作。以一千個常用英文字解釋世界的運作將複雜科技轉化為人人能懂的圖像語言適合對世界充滿好奇的所有年齡層From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro. It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do.Richard Feynman once said that if you can't explain something to a first-year student, you don't really get it. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this: he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words.Many of the things we use every day - like our food-heating radio boxes ('microwaves'), our
