**"Delightful, funny, and yet rigorous and intelligent: only Jorge and Daniel can reach this exquisite balance." —Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and HelgolandYou’ve got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here.**As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we ...

From the creative brain behind WE HAVE NO IDEA, an introductory journey into your own mind—if your inner voice had a PhD in neuroscience, cracked jokes, and drew cartoonsWhy do you love? Why do you hate? What makes you happy? Every single thought you have comes from one place: your brain. But what makes it tick? How much of it have we decoded, and how much of it remains an impenetrable mystery?Join bestselling author and online cartoonist Jorge Cham and neu...

Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universeHumanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the universe: the enormous holes in our knowledge of the cosmos. Armed w...

'Delightful, funny, and yet rigorous and intelligent' CARLO ROVELLIYou've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here.As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the same big questions. Why can't I travel back in time? Where did the universe come from? What's inside a bla...

Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universeHumanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the universe: the enormous holes in our knowledge of the cosmos. Armed w...

Elinor learns about butterflies as she makes her costume for Insect Day.Elinor knows just what type of insect she’s going to be for Insect Day: a butterfly! She knows a lot about butterflies. She plans how she’ll make her costume, with her dad’s help: cutting cardboard, painting the wings and gluing the parts together. But there’s something she needs to find out first. She knows butterflies have two antennae and four wings. But how many legs do they have? Luckily, Elinor is a pro a...

'This witty book reveals the humbling vastness of our ignorance about the universe, along with charming insights into what we actually do understand' Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Reality Is Not What It SeemsIn our small corner of the universe, we know how some matter behaves most of the time and what even less of it looks like, and we have some good guesses about where it all came from. But we really have no clue wha...

'This witty book reveals the humbling vastness of our ignorance about the universe, along with charming insights into what we actually do understand' Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Reality Is Not What It SeemsMany books explain what we know about the universe. This one, from the hugely popular PhD Comics (50 million readers since 2008), tackles all the weird stuff we haven't figured out yet.In ...

**"Delightful, funny, and yet rigorous and intelligent: only Jorge and Daniel can reach this exquisite balance." —Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and HelgolandYou’ve got questions: about space, time, gravity, and your odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here.**As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we...

From the creator of WE HAVE NO IDEA, an introductory journey into your own mind—if your inner voice had a Ph.D. in brain science, cracked jokes, and drew cartoons.Why do you love? Why do you lie? What makes you happy? Every single thought you have comes from one place: your brain. But what makes it tick? How much of it have we decoded, and how much of it remains an impenetrable mystery?Join best-selling author and online cartoonist Jorge Cham and neuroscien...

An eminent physicist at CERN and the cartoonist behind the hugely successful PhD Comics answer the most important, most outrageous and funniest questions about everything.You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here.As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the sa...

Elinor and her friends look to nature to solve a squishy problem.Elinor, Ari and Olive want to bring a cupcake to school to give to Ms. Mole for her birthday. But the last time Olive brought a cupcake, it got squished in her book bag. So Elinor and her friends need to figure out how to stop the squish and get the cupcake safely to school. They notice some animals, such as turtles and armadillos, are protected by hard shells. Coconuts are, too. Hmm, has this given Elinor a perfect i...