How High Can You Jump? From Randall Munroe’s “How To”

Rhett Allain
5 min readJan 21, 2021
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I’m currently reading Randall Munroe’s book, How To (Penguin Random House). Personally, I love anything from Randall Munroe — you might know him from his awesome xkcd comics.

The basic idea of the book is to take some crazy (or even normal) questions and explain how to do them. For instance, this question was “how to jump high”. Of course, it’s just a book — and with…

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Rhett Allain

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.