Most Adults Can’t Answer These 5th Grade Science Questions

Spelling test, check. Long division homework, done. You’ve survived the solar system project more than once, and can probably ...
NPR

Randall Munroe's 'What If? 2' answers the absurd science questions you didn't know you had

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with author Randall Munroe about his new book, "What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions." So question for you. If you unleashed a ...
Science Friday

Can Science Answer Life’s Biggest Questions?

years ago in a cave near Les Eyzies in the Dordogne, France. Credit: SEARCHING: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science Dr. Alan Lightman has been around the block a few times. Over the past five ...
Time

Could You Eat a Cloud? How Randall Munroe Became the Guru of Absurd Science Questions

It’s a pretty safe bet that nobody is going to fill the solar system with soup, out to the orbit of Jupiter. For one thing, that would take a lot of soup—2 x 10 to the 39th power liters, which is also ...