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22 May 2024 23:15

'Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.'

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20 May 2024 22:50

'I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.'

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17 May 2024 23:50

'Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.'

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15 May 2024 22:05

'==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?''

xkcd

14 May 2024 05:25

'This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.'

xkcd

10 May 2024 22:20

'Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.'

xkcd

09 May 2024 02:35

'From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.'

xkcd

07 May 2024 06:30

'While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.'

xkcd

04 May 2024 03:45

'The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.'

xkcd

01 May 2024 15:05

2927. "Alphabetical Cartogram"

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29 Apr 2024 19:35

2926. "Doppler Effect"

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26 Apr 2024 19:55

2925. "Earth Formation Site"

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24 Apr 2024 14:45

2924. "Pendulum Types"

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23 Apr 2024 02:05

2923. "Scary Triangles"

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19 Apr 2024 15:45

2922. "Pub Trivia"

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22 May 2024 23:15

2936. "Exponential Growth"

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20 May 2024 22:50

2935. "Ocean Loop"

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17 May 2024 23:50

2934. "Bloom Filter"

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15 May 2024 22:05

2933. "Elementary Physics Paths"

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14 May 2024 05:25

2932. "Driving PSA"

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10 May 2024 22:20

2931. "Chasing"

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09 May 2024 02:35

2930. "Google Solar Cycle"

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07 May 2024 06:30

2929. "Good and Bad Ideas"

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04 May 2024 03:45

2928. "Software Testing Day"

xkcd

29 Apr 2024 19:35

'The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.'

xkcd

26 Apr 2024 19:55

'It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.'

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24 Apr 2024 14:45

'The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.'

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23 Apr 2024 02:05

'Concealed mostly beneath the surface, sharks are the icebergs of the sea.'

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19 Apr 2024 15:45

'Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London'

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18 Apr 2024 06:55

'Okay, this eclipse will only be visible from the Arctic in February 2063, when the sun is below the horizon, BUT if we get lucky and a gigantic chasm opens in the Earth in just the right spot...'