{"id":135272,"date":"2015-08-17T07:37:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T05:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=135272"},"modified":"2015-08-17T07:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T05:38:58","slug":"the-thing-explainer-complicated-stuff-in-simple-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/135272-the-thing-explainer-complicated-stuff-in-simple-words.html","title":{"rendered":"The Thing Explainer – complicated stuff in simple words"},"content":{"rendered":"

XKCD creator Randall Munroe\u2019s new book called The Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words<\/a><\/strong>, sets out to explain complicated issues using only drawings and simple words.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe book is full of detailed diagrams of interesting objects, along with explanations of what all the parts are and how they work,” said Munroe.<\/p>\n

The titles, labels, and descriptions are all written using only the thousand most common English words.<\/p>\n

Some of the things which Munroe explains in his book are data centres, tectonic plates, airliner cockpit controls, and cells.<\/p>\n

Despite not being released yet, the book has already hit number one on Amazon\u2019s best-seller list in the \u201cScience & Math\u201d subcategory. It is due to be released in November.<\/p>\n

The comic Up Goer Five, below – an annotated blueprint of the Saturn V rocket – is an example of what you will find in the\u00a0new book.<\/p>\n

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Up Goer Five<\/p><\/div>\n

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