Randall Munroe,creator ofxkcd,discusses his new bookHow To,a guide to using science to turn everyday problems into much bigger, more exciting problems. Learn how to cross a river by boiling it, get tips on how to make skiing much more dangerous using liquid oxygen, and hear about his exp...
In the comic, Cueball and Ponytail consult an oracle to learn about dark matter. The pentacle and candles suggest that the oracle is supernatural, summoned by an occult ritual; something which would present its own challenges to our understanding of the physical world. There may be a pun ...
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There is always something new to learn here!! :) Thanks. Anonymous January 12, 2009 So I'm curious now, do you read XKCD regularly or did somebody just point this out to you? :) Also, I'll second Sys's request for an article about why you avoid C++ exceptions. Sounds very ...
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The xkcd Velociraptor Problem #1 InSubstitute, we learn of a substitute teacher’s “real-life” math problems, which include the following: Ha, ha, funny commentary on a frustrated old substitute math teacher. (Disclosure: my wife is an 8th grade math teacher, and frustrated is often descrip...
I saw it as a send up of the agile development practices of Silicon Valley and many other businesses today. The principle is that if an idea is going to fail, you want it to fail fast, so you can learn and pivot quickly to a better idea. This can ideally result in a culture that...
Hairy: I've been hanging out with some pickup artists. Hairy: I'm learning alot! Beret Guy: Oh, that sounds like fun! [Caption below the panel:] The world seems like a happier place if you think "pickup artist" is like "pickup basketball player". ...
Anyway, it's a good idea to learn those "obscure runes" because they're universal, and often easier to read than the English text accompanying them. And they do give you a heads-up to what temperature water, what sort of iron or not, etc. In fact, I have a black tee shirt with ...
- What can we learn from this? - I've learned that keeping our time relative to earth rotation is outdated, we keep having to add seconds here and there just to keep time. And as an engineer don't get me started on complexity of mktime function. I personally think of time as oscilla...