Podcast Episodes featuring Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe's Absurd Scientific Advice For Real-World Problems

Short Wave - October 20, 2020 08:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.7K ratings
Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind the popular Internet comic xkcd, finds complicated solutions to simple, real-world problems. In the process, he reveals a lot about science and why the real world is sometimes even weirder than we expect. His latest book is called How To: Absurd Scientific Ad...

Randall Munroe's Absurd Science For Real-World Problems

Short Wave - October 21, 2019 08:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.7K ratings
Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind the popular Internet comic xkcd, finds complicated solutions to simple, real-world problems. In the process, he reveals a lot about science and why the real world is sometimes even weirder than we expect. His new book is called How To: Absurd Scientific Advic...

How to see pictures of dinosaurs (featuring XKCD creator Randall Munroe)

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - September 17, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge are looking into the past with XKCD comic creator Randall Munroe.  You can find his new book "How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real World Problems" here Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...

Randall Munroe on Hard Ways to Do Simple Things

Kickass News - Afar - September 16, 2019 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Randall Munroe is the former NASA physicist turned bestselling cartoonist behind XKCD and the What If blog.  He talks about his new book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems.  Randall reveals the cost of putting a lava moat around your house, how to move your house with...

Episode 352 - "How To" author and xkcd creator Randall Munroe

Probably Science - September 05, 2019 04:04 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 609 ratings
Cartoonist/author/engineer Randall Munroe of the Hugo Award-winning webcomic xkcd joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, in which he gives novel, ridiculous and technically correct tips on doing everything from digging a ho...

Triangulation 412: Randall Munroe: XKCD

Triangulation (Audio) - August 30, 2019 22:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 105 ratings
Randall Munroe is the creator of the greatest comic strip on the internet: XKCD, and the author of the new book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. He talks with Leo Laporte about how he got started making comic strips, the importance of not making fun of people for...

Randall Munroe with Marcus du Sautoy on Making the Complicated Simple

Intelligence Squared - October 05, 2017 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratings
On 2nd October, Intelligence Squared brought together two of the world’s best-loved masters of explaining and popularising science, who lifted the lid on the technology we love and on the cutting edge of current scientific research. Randall Munroe is a physicist who once built robots for NASA. Hi...