Randall Munroe: Thing Explainer [2017] paperback ZFTRA They're locked up for your

They're locked up for your safety

has recently come down from Cambridge

Now it's all coming back

and even death is not quite eternal

This book is the antidote to that feeling

Randall Munroe: Thing Explainer [2017] paperback ZFTRA They're locked up for yourFrom 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