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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Price $30.00Hardcover
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Randall Munroe
discusses
What If?:
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
Tickets ($26) include admission and one copy of What If?
DateSep
2
Tuesday
September 2, 2014 6:00 PM ET (Doors at 5:30) |
LocationBrattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Tickets
SOLD OUT.
There will not be a standby line for this event. |
UPDATE: This event, originally scheduled for September 4, will now take place on September 2.
Please note, signed copies of What If? are completely sold out.
Harvard Book Store welcomes RANDALL MUNROE, creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, for a presentation of his book What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.
Please note that your ticket ONLY guarantees you admission until five minutes before an event begins. Additionally, tickets purchased online may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand.
All ticket purchases are non-refundable.
This event is now sold out
Walking from the Harvard Square T station: 10 minutes
As you exit the station, cross Mass. Ave. and proceed along Brattle St. Follow Brattle St. as it curves to the right in Brattle Square (follow the sidewalk on the right side of the street). The Brattle will be on the left-hand side of the street. The building is shared with Algiers Cafe and Alden & Harlow Restaurant, and the theatre entrance is on the left side of the building—look for the sidewalk poster case and marquee.
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