Figured it was better than attributing gender to fields and groups since “himself” and “herself” were on the list. Ok, and I also cheated by splitting up “itself”, but it still communicates the idea.

On one hand, the second one is cheating by using extremely technical definitions for common word on the other hand, it’s pretty great how many simple words are used in complex ways. You can look at any smaller group in your group to find a matching smaller field in your field that is moved onto it self by all the things in your smaller group.Īlso, if you take any smaller field of your field there will always be a smaller group of your group that has all the ways you can move that field onto it self. Take a field and make a group out of all of the ways you can move the field onto it self where two ways make a new way by doing both one after the other. If you have a line and draw another line that shows the area under it and then draw a third line that shows how fast the second line changes, the third line is the same as the first line. I just can’t resist posting these gems that helped me create: Touch these blue words to learn how to get Thing Explainer. You can’t have Thing Explainer yet, but if you want, you can order it now, and you’ll get it about a month before the end of the year. The book explains things, so it’s called Thing Explainer. I had a good time drawing Up Goer Five, so I decided to draw more pictures like that and make a book of them. You can preorder it now ( Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound, Hudson) click here for links to more information and options. Thing Explainer will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on November 24th. The diagrams in Thing Explainer cover all kinds of neat stuff-including computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the stuff you use to steer a plane (airliner cockpit controls), and the little bags of water you’re made of (cells). The titles, labels, and descriptions are all written using only the thousand most common English words. Since this book explains things, I’ve called it Thing Explainer.

The book is full of detailed diagrams of interesting objects, along with explanations of what all the parts are and how they work. Today, I’m excited to announce that I’m publishing a collection of large-format (9″x13″) Up Goer Five-style blueprints. A while ago, I posted the comic Up Goer Five, an annotated blueprint of the Saturn V rocket with all the parts described using only the thousand most common English words.

Thing explainer