How To by Randall Munroe (of comic xkcd fame) is a fun book for the science nerd in us all. In this book Munroe takes a task, like how to dig a hole or how to charge your phone, and explores possible but improbable ways of accomplishing that task. In the process you get to explore how science applies to a wide variety of the phenomena you encounter in everyday life, complete with equations. For example, in answering how to dig a hole we explore using a shovel, the myth of a pirate’s buried treasure, how to calculate whether the effort of hole digging is worth whatever “treasure” will be obtained by doing the digging, what vacuum excavation is, and the biggest manmade holes in the world… all in the space of 5 ½ pages.
I strongly recommend this book as just fun to read with a way of encouraging you to ask questions and really go all in on thinking about how to answer those questions.
