Podcasts about absurd hypothetical questions

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (2014) by Randall Munroe Read and listen to "Mastery" on Amazon! We're very excited to announce our books “Sexual Magnetism,” “The WASM Dating Handbook” and “Secrets of Sensual Massage” are now available! Follow these links to get your copies of "Sexual Magnetism," "The WASM Dating Handbook" and "Secrets of Sensual Massage" on Amazon.com. Want more great books? Check out our MUST READ LIST! Overview of “What If?” A very brief description of “What If?” Randall Munroe's webcomic about science, technology, language, and love has a large and passionate following. Every week millions of fans of Munroe's stick figures visit xkcd.com … and many of them ask him a lot of strange questions. For example, 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? This book is a compilation of his most popular questions and answers - complimented by his signature xkcd comics. What Munroe sets out to do / Purpose of the book In pursuit of answers to reader's questions, 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. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. The intended audience of "What If?" / Who will benefit most People who love science People who love learning People who enjoy thinking about how and why the world works People who want to become better problem solvers People who love comics People who want to spend time listening to someone who is really smart and really cool Who probably WON'T like this book? People who think hypothetical questions are unnecessary People who don't care how or why the world works People who hate science and math People who don't like stick figures How does this book specifically benefit Men? As a man, people are always going to be asking us why things happen the way they do. The world is a complicated and challenging place and much of what is happening is overwhelming to people. Books like ‘What If?' help Men to hone our problem solving skills and help us to make better choices. Plus Men need a good sense of humor and xkcd and Randall Munroe is hilarious! Is this book Easy, Average or Difficult to read? / How long is it? Easy to follow, but the math/physics/chemistry/etc can get very challenging when Munroe breaks down the science behind the answers. Thankfully, you can always skip over the dense math stuff and just read the summaries. And of course there's always the comics! 321 pages, Audiobook: 6 hrs, 36mins What are the overall book reviews? Is the book well-known? Popular? Significant? Amazon Books: 29,172 Ratings - 4.6 Stars Kindle Ranking: #7 in Science & Scientists Humor #15 in Physics (Kindle Store) #34 in Trivia (Books) Audible: 13,396, 4.5 stars Audible Ranking: #123 in Physics #246 in Trivia #320 in Biological Sciences Book-To-Movie Translation It's probably a good thing a movie version of "What If?" doesn't exist. In pretty much every scenario the world ends! Bio of Randall Munroe Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. Munroe was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and his father has worked as an engineer and marketer. He was a fan of comic strips in newspapers from an early age, starting off with Calvin and Hobbes (Jay's personal fav comic) Graduated in 2006 with a degree in physics. Worked as a contract programmer and roboticist for NASA at the Langley Research Center, before and after his graduation with a physics degree. He started xkcd in 2005 and began posting webcomics. The popularity of his site exploded and in late 2006, he left NASA and moved to Boston to focus on webcomics full time. By 2007 xkcd.com was getting up to 70million hits per month! Munroe enables free use of all xkcd comics under the Creative Commons license and makes his money primarily from selling xkcd branded merchandise (several thousand t-shirts/month plus other items) In addition to writing and drawing, he also does open-source programming projects, gives lectures around the country (including at Google) and makes science-based charts that are used in textbooks and newspapers. He also does kite photography (to clarify: photos from kites, not of kites) Munroe has published five books to date: xkcd: volume 0 What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Thing Explainer How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Breakdown of Themes in "What If?" Science Is Fun Changing almost anything affects almost everything Periodic Wall of the Elements p35 Soul mates p23 Spent Fuel Pool p10 Lego bridge p222

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We'll be talking about flash fiction and doing a mini-writing workshop live as we read our own flash fiction to each other. Not sure if you're ready to commit to a story idea? Looking to infuse your writing life with some inspiration in a low-key way? The short, get-in, get-out format of flash fiction might be perfect for you. Picks of the Week: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.

Randall Munroe visits Google to discuss his book "What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions." The millions of people around the world who read the first "What If?" book still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer door at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist. But before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers' questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances. This book is filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall's signature stick-figure comics. Randall Munroe is the author of the number one New York Times bestsellers "How To", "What If?", and "Thing Explainer"; the science question-and-answer blog “What If?”; and the popular web comic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time. Visit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/WhatIf to watch the video.

Former NASA roboticist turned cartoonist Randall Munroe spends his days applying physics and math to answer crazy questions.. He tries to make science accessible in his latest book, "What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions".

There is such a thing as a stupid question. For example, what would happen if the Solar System was filled with soup out to Jupiter? But trying to figure out the answer can make you really smart. Former NASA roboticist turned cartoonist Randall Munroe spends his days applying physics and math to answer crazy questions. Bill Gates and Neil Gaiman are among his fans.The questions he likes best come from kids who want to know about the soup or how many humans a TREX would need to eat to survive. He tries to make science accessible and funny in his latest book, "What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions".

For the answers to the rest of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask, the New York Times bestselling author is back with What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. In conversation with Derek Thompson, a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes the “Work in Progress” newsletter, host of the weekly news podcast “Plain English,” and author of Hit Makers. This program was held on September 14, 2022. 

Have a wacky science question? Randall Munroe is here to help. The author of the science question-and-answer blog What If? and the popular web comic xkcd joins host Krys Boyd to discuss questions like: Could you cool the earth by opening freezer doors? And: Is it possible to build a billion-story building? His book full of answers is “What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.”

Since 2005, Randall Munroe has used his webcomic XKCD to comment on the world around him and express his love for pop culture, math, and science. Now, with the release of his new book “What If 2?: More Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions”, the cartoonist is yet again using his physics expertise to answer the most interesting hypothetical questions with a dash of humor. He sits down with Recode's Peter Kafka to reflect on his career so far, and what he has planned ahead. Featuring: Randall Munroe (@xkcd), creator of XKCD and Author Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Featured Books Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front by Mara Altman What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Scott Ellsworth Book Riot – Holstrom – “Recommending Books Based on the Weirdest Facts They Taught Me.” 2022 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads Follow or Contact Book Club of One: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com Goodreads --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Behind the Tech XKCD is one of our favorite webcomics - and it started out as doodles in Randall Munroe's college notebooks. Munroe describes his work as “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” In this episode, he joins Kevin to talk about how he got started, where his inspiration comes from and his latest book, What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Find out why a surprising number of cartoonists are physicists by training, explore the joy of seeking answers to seemingly impossible questions, and much more! 

Behind the Tech: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- XKCD is one of our favorite webcomics - and it started out as doodles in Randall Munroe's college notebooks. Munroe describes his work as “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” In this episode, he joins Kevin to talk about how he got started, where his inspiration comes from and his latest book, What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Find out why a surprising number of cartoonists are physicists by training, explore the joy of seeking answers to seemingly impossible questions, and much more! 

What's the “it's” in “it's three pm and hot”? How do you write a cough in the International Phonetic Alphabet? Who is the person most likely to speak similarly to a randomly-selected North American English speaker? In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about absurd hypothetical linguistic questions with special guest Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic xkcd and author of What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. We only wish that there was a little more linguistics in the book. So Randall came on to fill the gap with all his most ridiculous linguistics questions! One of our unresolved questions that we can merely speculate about is our predictions for what the future of English might be like. Are you listening to this episode from more than two decades in the future? Please write in from 2042 or later and let us know how accurate we've been! Read the transcript here: Announcements: We've teamed up with linguist/artist Lucy Maddox to create a fun, minimalist version of the classic International Phonetic Alphabet chart, which you can see here (plus more info about how we put together the design). It looks really cool, and it's also a practical reference tool that you can carry around with you in a convenient multi-purpose format: lens cloths! We're going to place ONE (1) massive order for aesthetic IPA chart lens cloths on October 6, 2022. If you want one, be a patron at the Lingthusiast tier or higher on October 5th, 2022, timezone: anywhere in the world. If you're already a patron at that tier, then you're set! (That's the tier where you also get bonus episodes and the Discord access, we've never run a special offer at this tier before but we think this time it'll be worth it!). www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm In this month's bonus episode we chat with Lucy about redesigning the IPA! We talk about how Lucy got interested in linguistics, how she got into art, how we started working with her, and the many design considerations that went into making a redesigned IPA chart. Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 60+ other bonus episodes, access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds, as well your exclusive IPA chart lens cloth! www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm Click here for the full show notes, which includes links to things mentioned in this episode:

XKCD is one of our favorite webcomics - and it started out as doodles in Randall Munroe's college notebooks. Munroe describes his work as “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” In this episode, he joins Kevin to talk about how he got started, where his inspiration comes from and his latest book, What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Find out why a surprising number of cartoonists are physicists by training, explore the joy of seeking answers to seemingly impossible questions, and much more! 

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts George Needham and Nicole Fowles. This week we speak with Amanad Sheterom who is the Human Resources Coordinator at the Delaware County District Library. We speak with her about the hiring fair happening on June 23rd from 1-5PM at the Liberty Township Hall. Recommendations include a list of adult books for Summer Reading Club found here, What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe, and Stranger Things on Netflix.  Read more about today's episode here. Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM https://wdlrradio.com/program-schedule/off-the-shelf/  This episode originally aired on June 10, 2022

What if?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. By Randall Monroe

If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Martin Splitt Sponsors Dexecure Dev Heroes Accelerator JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Links Devchat.tv | JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Performance Measurements Picks AJ- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe AJ- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe AJ- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe AJ- From Microsoft, Oracle, etc to NSA Data Center (Google Map) AJ- Square Stone Wheel (Test Institute Stone and Stone Caveman User Focus Group) Dan- How to Systematically Debug Your CSS Just Like You Would Your JavaScript? Martin- The curious tale of Tegel’s Boeing 707 Martin- Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery Martin- Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource Steve- In Plain Sight (TV Series 2008-2012)

If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Martin Splitt Sponsors Dexecure Dev Heroes Accelerator JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Links Devchat.tv | JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Performance Measurements Picks AJ- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe AJ- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe AJ- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe AJ- From Microsoft, Oracle, etc to NSA Data Center (Google Map) AJ- Square Stone Wheel (Test Institute Stone and Stone Caveman User Focus Group) Dan- How to Systematically Debug Your CSS Just Like You Would Your JavaScript? Martin- The curious tale of Tegel’s Boeing 707 Martin- Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery Martin- Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource Steve- In Plain Sight (TV Series 2008-2012)

If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Martin Splitt Sponsors Dexecure Dev Heroes Accelerator JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Links Devchat.tv | JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Performance Measurements Picks AJ- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe AJ- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe AJ- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe AJ- From Microsoft, Oracle, etc to NSA Data Center (Google Map) AJ- Square Stone Wheel (Test Institute Stone and Stone Caveman User Focus Group) Dan- How to Systematically Debug Your CSS Just Like You Would Your JavaScript? Martin- The curious tale of Tegel’s Boeing 707 Martin- Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery Martin- Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource Steve- In Plain Sight (TV Series 2008-2012)

If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Martin Splitt Sponsors Dexecure Dev Heroes Accelerator JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Links Devchat.tv | JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Performance Measurements Picks AJ- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe AJ- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe AJ- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe AJ- From Microsoft, Oracle, etc to NSA Data Center (Google Map) AJ- Square Stone Wheel (Test Institute Stone and Stone Caveman User Focus Group) Dan- How to Systematically Debug Your CSS Just Like You Would Your JavaScript? Martin- The curious tale of Tegel’s Boeing 707 Martin- Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery Martin- Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource Steve- In Plain Sight (TV Series 2008-2012)

If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Martin Splitt Sponsors Dexecure Dev Heroes Accelerator JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Links Devchat.tv | JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Performance Measurements Picks AJ- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe AJ- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe AJ- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe AJ- From Microsoft, Oracle, etc to NSA Data Center (Google Map) AJ- Square Stone Wheel (Test Institute Stone and Stone Caveman User Focus Group) Dan- How to Systematically Debug Your CSS Just Like You Would Your JavaScript? Martin- The curious tale of Tegel’s Boeing 707 Martin- Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery Martin- Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource Steve- In Plain Sight (TV Series 2008-2012)

If you're building a website or web-app, there's a good chance that you want people to find it so that they will access it. These days this mostly means that you want it to appear in the relevant search engine results pages (SERP). In this episode we are joined by Martin Splitt, DevRel at Google for the Search & Web ecosystem, who explains in detail how search engines work, and what developers and SEOs need to know and do in order to be on their good side. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Dan Shappir Steve Edwards Guest Martin Splitt Sponsors Dexecure Dev Heroes Accelerator JavaScript Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Links Devchat.tv | JSJ 428: The Alphabet Soup of Performance Measurements Picks AJ- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe AJ- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe AJ- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe AJ- From Microsoft, Oracle, etc to NSA Data Center (Google Map) AJ- Square Stone Wheel (Test Institute Stone and Stone Caveman User Focus Group) Dan- How to Systematically Debug Your CSS Just Like You Would Your JavaScript? Martin- The curious tale of Tegel’s Boeing 707 Martin- Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery Martin- Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource Steve- In Plain Sight (TV Series 2008-2012)

A short podcast in which I read an explanation of steak temperature as it falls from the atmosphere. Book: What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Author: Randall Munroe Page 107-111 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/christopher-lash/support

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Learn how to power your house by destroying the fabric of space-time, with help from xkcd creator Randall Munroe. Then, learn about the surprising reasons why hourglass figures are considered attractive; and, the scientific reason why clowns creep us out. In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: The Evolutionary Reason Hourglass Figures Are Considered Attractive Isn't What You've Heard — https://curiosity.im/2la3Aw0  Here's the Scientific Reason Why Clowns Creep Us Out — https://curiosity.im/2LvbBpH  Additional resources from Randall Munroe: “How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems” on Amazon — https://amzn.to/2ZT1nIB  xkcd, “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language" — xkcd.com  “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions” — https://amzn.to/2LwjfjX  Randall Munroe: Is It Possible To Change The Moon's Colour? [Video] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avYPeoU0nI8 Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing. 

Learn about how quickly different languages can transmit information. Then, learn how you can predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos, with some help from Randall Munroe, creator of the popular geek webcomic xkcd. In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about how languages all transmit information at the same rate, no matter how fast they’re spoken: https://curiosity.im/2OgvR0j Additional resources from Randall Munroe: “How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems” on Amazon — https://amzn.to/2ZT1nIB  xkcd, “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language" — xkcd.com  “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions” — https://amzn.to/2LwjfjX  Randall Munroe: Is It Possible To Change The Moon's Colour? [Video] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avYPeoU0nI8 Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing. 

In this episode of The Books We Read, Reagan Schrock and Jaran Miller discuss two books that they've been reading. Jaran talks about George MacDonald's dark book Lilith, and Reagan tells about Randall Munroe's delightful book What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. What If: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21413662-what-if Lilith: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/268187.Lilith We try to publish a new episode every second Friday, so expect to hear from us again on October 11, 2019. Follow Jaran on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/jaranmiller Follow Reagan on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/reaganschrock All the music in this episode comes from Blue Dot Sessions, namely "Kirkus" and "Minutes."

With summer upon us, we are taking a virtual road trip with another Audiobook draft. Panelists Shachi Bhatt, Gilbert Tang, and Mark Siegal join me to discuss what makes a good road trip audiobook and to share our favorite audiobooks for listening with friends, family, or solo on road trips and long car rides. **Round 1:** Shachi: I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend written and narrated by Martin Short [8h 40m] Mark: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions written by Randall Munroe; narrated by Wil Wheaton [6h 36m] Gilbert: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! written by Richard P. Feyman; narrated by Raymond Todd [11h 31m] Scott: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride written by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden; narrated by Cary Elwes, Christopher Guest, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, Rob Reiner, Chris Sarandon, Andy Scheinman, Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright, and Billy Crystal [7h 1m] **Round 2:** Shachi: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin written by Erik Larson; narrated by Stephen Hoye [12h 52m] Mark: Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self written and narrated by Manoush Zomorodi [6:58] // [Episode 10] Gilbert: Born a Crime written and narrated by Trevor Noah [8h 44m] // [Episode 16] Scott: Good Omens written by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett; narrated by Martin Jarvis [12h 32m] **Round 3:** Shachi: James and the Giant Peach written by Roald Dahl; narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt [3h 18m] Mark: The Tale of Despereaux written by Kate DiCamillo; narrated by Graeme Malcolm [3h 30m] Gilbert: The Golden Compass written by Philip Pullman; narrated by Philip Pullman & a full cast // His Dark Materials (series) Scott: One Summer: America, 1927 written and narrated by Bill Bryson [17h 03m]   **Additional Picks:** Shachi: Namesake [10h 10m] Mark: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [5h 51m]; On the Road [11h 08m] Gilbert: Calypso [6h 39m]; Scythe [10h 32m] // [Episode 12] Scott: Harry Potter (series); The Hobbit [11h 05m]; Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void [10h 27m]   **Other Drafts:** Episode 22: Mount Everest Audiobook Draft Episode 35: Audiobook Draft for New Audiobook Listeners   **Contact the Show: ** Twitter: _narrated // Website: Narrated  

This month we’re reading Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Myths, and Folklore. We talk about the internet, oral stories, where to start reading superheroes, the problems with incredibly long books, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…) A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild and Wicked Enchanted Realm by Varla Ventura Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms Christmas Customs and Folklore: A Guide to Season Rites by Margaret Baker Hark! Podcast Jingle Bells written by James Lord Pierpont Wassailing Haxey Hood Boggans - Changeling: The Dreaming Snap-dragon (game) Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O'Brien Here Comes a Chopper to Chop Off Your Head: The Dark Side of Childhood Rhymes and Stories by Liz Evers Ring a Ring o' Roses Contes et sortilèges des quatre coins du Québec Les grandes légendes du Québec : un tour du Québec en 25 récits traditionnels Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg: The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles by Marty Crump Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters by Matt Kaplan Crash Course Mythology White as Milk, Red as Blood: The Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth translated by Shelley Tanaka and illustrated by Willow Dawson Willow Dawson’s website Contes du Nord illustrated by Kay Nielsen Kay Nielsen - 43 artworks Other Media We Mention Andrew Lang's Fairy Books PBS Idea Channel How is Slender Man Internet Folklore? What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe What If? Website Links, Articles, and Things Kelpie: “malevolent water horses” Jack Zipes: “an American academic and folklorist who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales” Slender Man Creepypasta (just spooked myself out by watching some videos on Petscop…) Afrofuturism The crew of the Argo Folklore of Quebec Protein poisoning Russian Fairy Tales Baba Yaga Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie comic series) (Sonic News Network wiki) Transformers Wiki (read the image captions) Favourite Folklore/Fairy Tales The Girl Without Hands (The Handless Maiden) Vasilisa the Beautiful (girl sent to Baba Yaga’s hut) The Yule Lads Suggest a genre or book! Fill out the form to suggest a genre or book! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 21st when we’ll be discussing Books That Changed Our Lives and Books That Haunt Us! Then come back on Tuesday, June 4th when we’ll be talking about the genre of Supernatural Thrillers!

What is the smallest country in the world? Where did bubble wrap come from, the origins of Dr. Pepper and more in this Round Robin edition of Things I Got Wrong -- Your General Trivia podcast with a Healthy does of Internet and Media things, Things I Got Wrong comes out on the 15th and 30th of every month! So listen in with your friends! ## Picks this Episode Ryan: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe (Book): https://kit.com/thingsigotwrong/episode-picks/what-if-serious-sc ## Social and Email Follow Us on Social Media [@thingsigotwrong](https://instagram.com/thingsigotwrong) and at [thingsigotwrong.com](https://thingsigotwrong.com). If you have a recommendation pick or topic ideas for future shows, you can send them to thingsigotwrong@gmail.com along with your name and a link to your favorite social profile or something cool you're working on we'll be happy to shout it out in the show! ## Hosts This episode features Rachel Miller, Stuart Hopkins and Ryan Bott. - Rachel Miller: https://www.instagram.com/rachelsmfr/ - Stuart Hopkins: https://www.facebook.com/Hopkinsterrariums/ - Ryan Bott: https://www.instagram.com/ryanbott/ & https://www.ryanbott.com/

What is the smallest country in the world? Where did bubble wrap come from, the origins of Dr. Pepper and more in this Round Robin edition of Things I Got Wrong -- Your General Trivia podcast with a Healthy does of Internet and Media things, Things I Got Wrong comes out on the 15th and 30th of every month! So listen in with your friends! ## Picks this Episode Ryan: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe (Book): https://kit.com/thingsigotwrong/episode-picks/what-if-serious-sc Stu: Andrew Heath's Art (Website) http://www.andrew-heath.com/shop/ ## Social and Email Follow Us on Social Media [@thingsigotwrong](https://instagram.com/thingsigotwrong) and at [thingsigotwrong.com](https://thingsigotwrong.com). If you have a recommendation pick or topic ideas for future shows, you can send them to thingsigotwrong@gmail.com along with your name and a link to your favorite social profile or something cool you're working on we'll be happy to shout it out in the show! ## Hosts This episode features Rachel Miller, Stuart Hopkins, Mark Spirek and Ryan Bott. - Rachel Miller: https://www.instagram.com/rachelsmfr/ - Stuart Hopkins: https://www.facebook.com/Hopkinsterrariums/ - Mark Spirek: https://twitter.com/mspirek & https://corg.is/ - Ryan Bott: https://www.instagram.com/ryanbott/ & https://www.ryanbott.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thingsigotwrong/message

What is the smallest country in the world? Where did bubble wrap come from, the origins of Dr. Pepper and more in this Round Robin edition of Things I Got Wrong -- Your General Trivia podcast with a Healthy does of Internet and Media things, Things I Got Wrong comes out on the 15th and 30th of every month! So listen in with your friends! ## Picks this Episode Ryan: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe (Book): https://kit.com/thingsigotwrong/episode-picks/what-if-serious-sc ## Social and Email Follow Us on Social Media [@thingsigotwrong](https://instagram.com/thingsigotwrong) and at [thingsigotwrong.com](https://thingsigotwrong.com). If you have a recommendation pick or topic ideas for future shows, you can send them to thingsigotwrong@gmail.com along with your name and a link to your favorite social profile or something cool you're working on we'll be happy to shout it out in the show! ## Hosts This episode features Rachel Miller, Stuart Hopkins and Ryan Bott. - Rachel Miller: https://www.instagram.com/rachelsmfr/ - Stuart Hopkins: https://www.facebook.com/Hopkinsterrariums/ - Ryan Bott: https://www.instagram.com/ryanbott/ & https://www.ryanbott.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thingsigotwrong/support

Are audio books cheating? Must every book our second-graders read feature Poopy Man and The Toilet King? Are reluctant readers doomed to fall behind their peers? Will Margaret or Amy ever read anything other than their Facebook feeds ever again?  This episode is full of ideas to get everyone in your family reading– plus books your kids will drop everything to read.  We love this “book traps” idea from our listener Nicole:    Find books in the library that seem like they might be irresistible to your child and place them strategically around the house so that your child stumbles upon them and feel like reading them was their own idea.    What about audiobooks? Is it counterproductive to let kids who struggle with decoding listen to their books instead? Jamie Martin, assistive technology consultant for understood.org, says no:  Listening to audiobooks isn’t “cheating.” The main purpose of reading is to get information. It doesn’t matter what path that information takes to reach the brain. Here’s some resources for parents that we recommend in this episode: Common Sense Media’s lists of books for reluctant readers Amy Mascott for PBS Parents: What To Do When Your Child Hates Reading Susan Dominus, NYT, Motherhood Screened Off Linda Flanagan for KQED: How Audiobooks Can Help Kids Who Struggle With Reading Mary Ann Scheuer’s Great Kid Books, a blog which recommendis books for kids from 4-14. Here’s books and authors that Amy recommends in this episode: the Amulet series (graphic novels for grade-school readers) anything by Raina Telgemaier (graphic novels with heroines for grade-school readers You Wouldn’t Want to Be… series (real history with a dose of gross-out humor) the American Girl collection (the best you’re-growing-up books out there) What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (a perfect coffee table book. Irresistible for all ages) and a few audiobook series recommended by Amy’s 10-year-old daughter: A Series of Unfortunate Events The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place The Mysterious Benedict Society and of course, Harry Potter, with hundreds of characters all voiced by Jim Dale. Here’s the books that have gotten our listeners’ kids reading. Thanks for everyone who joined in with ideas on our Facebook page! Lauren: Pete the Cat, Wayside Stories from Wayside School Maureen: Mo Willems Tracy: “Right now (8 years old) we are loving Super Rabbit Boy.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Jon Bounds embark on a mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order. Advanced Vectoid Stabilisis A device you can add to your spaceship, “that only wimps go for”. It might also be prime fodder for a Top Gear discussion. Agrajag The creature with the sprained mind, who constructed the Cathedral of Hate in Arthur's name, after believing him to be the cause of his many deaths. Here we share some confessions and decide if Agrajag was right to accuse Arthur of killing him several times. Alcohol A colourless, volatile liquid formed from the fermentation of sugars. Here's the music we used. If you're confused by the bread roll reference, this should help. Aldebaran A giant orange star about 65 light years from our sun, and the brightest star in the constellation of Taurus. It is a real thing, Jon. Algol A star in the Perseus constellation, and is home to the Algolian Suntiger. It is also a real thing (the star, not the tiger). Allosimanius Syneca A world of stunning natural beauty. It only gets one mention, in Life, the Universe and Everything , as the place Trillian flies the Heart of Gold to. In this episode, we also find out that Jon Hickman names his running shoes after his favourite sci-fi spaceships. Almighty Bob The god whose existence is probably the most spurious, as he was likely invented by Old Thrashbarg. Here we share our favourite, possibly-offensive religious epithet and find out that Almighty Bob is a way for the people of Lamuella to exercise care in the community. Book recommendation This week we're recommending What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, by XKCD's Randall Munroe. Pick it up in audiobook form for free by taking out a free 30 day trial with Audible. Just head to audibletrial.com/leopard to get started. Get in touch Let us know what you call a bread roll, by emailing feedback@btlpodcast.com. Follow @iamsteadman, @jonhickman and @bounder on Twitter. Read Jon Bounds' Pop and Politics blog. Listen to Jon Hickman's running podcast, You Don't Look Like a Runner.

This week, Apple unveils their new line of iPhones, a new payment system, and the Apple Watch. Plus, the White House gets a new tech officer, and should broadband be considered an utility? Apple Event 2014 iPhone 6 / 6 Plus Apple Announces 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-Inch iPhone 6 Plus, Launching September 19 Apple Pay Apple Pay Is The Most Important News Out Of Today's Launch Event Apple Watch The Apple Watch: Everything You Need to Know Fashion world divided on first look at Apple Watch Apple offers U2's new album Songs of Innocence for free, exclusively until mid-October on iTunes Marc Newson to Join Apple, Jony Ive's Design Team Audible Book of the Week What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown Music Break: Clocks by Coldplay More Headlines White House names Google's Megan Smith the next Chief Technology Officer of the United States Nancy Pelosi urges FCC to reclassify broadband as a utility Amazon Cuts Struggling Phone's Price to 99 Cents Dyson Releases the Eye, a Robot Vacuum With a 360-Degree Camera The Drill Down Video of the Week Introducing Apple Watch Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.