Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

the long version

From the creator of the webcomic"xkcd"and author of the #1"New York Times"bestseller"What If?," a series of brilliantly and simply annotated blueprints that explain everything from nuclear bombs to ballpoint pensHave you ever tried to read up on some incredible part of the world, only to find yourself faced with incomprehensible terminology and jargon? It s nice to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it s even more interesting to know what they do. What if you had something that could