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Even if there's a saturated pizza industry, with several pizza outlets all vying for the local business, it may still be less problematic to compete for the slightly smaller 'rest of the town' market, perhaps even to offer deliveries to places previously outside their area, than to work ...
Adopting this definition would suggest that a planetary body is not worthy of the name if it doesn't (with no matter for what reason) demonstrably have the means to dominate its local area by being the overwhelming focus of all adjacent bodies' own orbits. Solipsistic Earth is the only plan...
s place as a measure of cartographic distortion. It’s also, unexpectedly, a riff on the idea of the 1:1 scale map (cf.Borges), especially if you consult the comic’s alt text: “The Mercator projection drastically distorts the size of almost every area of land except a small ring ...
Here’s something I made as I drew today’s comic. It’s a chart of Google results for “XY” (in quotes) whereXandYare words from the first panel of the strip. The first word is on the top, the second down the side (the opposite of the intuitive way, of course). ...
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Tour(n.) /tʊər/ a visit to a place or area, especially when you look round the place or area and learn about it Site(n.) /saɪt/same as website Academic calendar(n. phrase) the calendar of the school indicating when school starts, which days are off, when the holidays st...
I have no idea how much 300,000 acres is […] But we need to understand this number to answer the obvious question: how much of the United States wason fire?This is why I made Dictionary of Numbers. Dictionary of Numbers helpfully informs me that 300,000 acres is about the area of ...
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XKCD style refers to a particular type of comic art and humour inspired by the webcomic "XKCD", created by Randall Munroe. XKCD comics are generally known for their modest drawings, often stick-figure characters, and simple black-and-white artwork. The comic covers a wide range of topics, ...