Hello and welcome to probably science. My name's Andy Wood. I'm Matt Kirshin. Andy's back from Burning Man.

I'm back from New York. Thank you guys for your patience with our strange release schedule, but we're back in it.

And we've got a great episode for you this week. Very excited to have the author of the soon to be released,

How to Invent Everything. Ryan North is going to talk with us in just a few minutes. He's also the creator

of dinosaur comics, and he's written for Adventure Time, the comic series. Or actually, he is the

sole writer of that comic book series. Won the Eisner Award for that. And the choosable

path, Shakespeare books you'll hear about that later on in the show. But his main book,

the one we're discussing for the most part in the show, How to

Invent Everything, a Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler.

It's great.

I think you'll like it.

I think you'll like this interview as well.

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