xkcd

06 Jun 2024 01:05

'Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.'

xkcd

03 Jun 2024 21:05

'It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.'

xkcd

31 May 2024 23:30

'My bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.'

xkcd

30 May 2024 00:10

'PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.'

xkcd

27 May 2024 23:30

'Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.'

xkcd

24 May 2024 22:00

'Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.'

xkcd

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.'

xkcd

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.'

xkcd

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.'

xkcd

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

06 Jun 2024 01:05

2942. "Fluid Speech"

xkcd

03 Jun 2024 21:05

2941. "Cell Organelles"

xkcd

31 May 2024 23:30

2940. "Modes of Transportation"

xkcd

30 May 2024 00:10

2939. "Complexity Analysis"

xkcd

27 May 2024 23:30

2938. "Local Group"

xkcd

24 May 2024 22:00

2937. "Room Code"

xkcd

22 May 2024 23:15

2936. "Exponential Growth"

xkcd

20 May 2024 22:50

2935. "Ocean Loop"

xkcd

17 May 2024 23:50

2934. "Bloom Filter"

xkcd

15 May 2024 22:05

2933. "Elementary Physics Paths"

xkcd

14 May 2024 05:25

2932. "Driving PSA"

xkcd

10 May 2024 22:20

2931. "Chasing"

xkcd

09 May 2024 02:35

2930. "Google Solar Cycle"

xkcd

07 May 2024 06:30

2929. "Good and Bad Ideas"

xkcd

04 May 2024 03:45

2928. "Software Testing Day"