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Virtual Author Talk: Randall Munroe: "What If? 2"

Join us for a fun-filled chat with webcomic author Randall Monroe as he answers absurd questions with research and science. Visit libraryc.org/plainfieldlibrary to watch this Author Talk and more.

This is part of our Author Talk series, bringing nationally celebrated and recognized authors to you. To join the next Author Talk from the comfort of your home, check out https://libraryc.org/plainfieldlibrary, and keep an eye out for future Author Talks at the library!

Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult Randall Monroe's practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers’ questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.

Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall’s signature stick-figure comics, What if? 2 provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to ask.

Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and author of the What If series. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006 he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full time and has since been nominated for a Hugo Award three times. In 2013, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth.

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