That’s clearly the case with Thing Explainer as well. It looks like the book will include around 60 diagrams in all. It’ll be released this year on November 24th, and it’s already available ...

The comic’s artist and author Randall Munroe just announced that he’s going to write an entire book titled Thing Explainer describing more blueprints of things with the same challenge of only ...

The book takes the conceit demonstrated in the "Up-Goer Five" comic—labeling a diagram of a complex machine using only first thousand most-common English words—and goes nuts with it, breaking ...

XKCD creator Randall Munroe’s new book called The Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, sets out to explain complicated issues using only drawings and simple words. “The book is ...

“Thing Explainer” Book Breaks Down Science Using Common Words. Dec. 18, 2015. Randall Monroe is a former NASA roboticist who wants to explain “complicated stuff in simple words.” ...

(WRITER’S NOTE: For “Thing Explainer,” Randall Munroe used only the 1,000 most commonly used words in American English as determined by his own exhaustive compilation and counting process.

Besides the Mars rover Curiosity, the book, released Nov. 24, diagrams the "shared space house" (International Space Station), "big tiny thing hitter" (Large Hadron Collider), "the sky at night ...

Randall Munroe of xkcd fame can and does in his new book Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (2015). Munroe, best known for his webcomic about “romance, sarcasm, math and language ...

This week, Munroe will publish “Thing Explainer,” a compendium of blueprints and diagrams in the spirit of “Up Goer Five.” Like any good work of science writing, the book is equal parts ...

The Thing Explainer seeks to elucidate complicated ideas, but only using the 1,000 most common words in the English language.Munroe first tried the concept in the XKCD comic “Up Goer Five ...