IEEE Oregon Section WIE Book Club Meeting
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- Date: 05 Jun 2020
- Time: 01:00 AM UTC to 02:00 AM UTC
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- 1st Thursday of the Month, excluding holidays
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- Co-sponsored by Heidi DeGarmo
- Starts 08 May 2020 01:00 AM UTC
- Ends 05 June 2020 02:00 AM UTC
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Please join Women in Engineering for this month's book, What If? by Randall Munroe
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd comes this hilarious and informative book of answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
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 of the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there were 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 listening for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical. ~ Amazon
Email Eve Klopf (Eve.Klopf@oit.edu) for questions, suggestions or comments