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08 Jun 22:54

Nostalgia Content

Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

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05 Jun 13:36

Planetary Science

The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.

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03 Jun 21:39

Detector

No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.

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01 Jun 15:51

Sunbeam

While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.

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29 May 18:09

Ancestral Genomes

SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.

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27 May 21:09

Time Machine Conversation

It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.

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25 May 22:24

Flag Design

Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be.

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22 May 19:09

Neutrino Project

We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.

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21 May 04:15

182.8 Meters

They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.

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18 May 19:24

Particle Census

Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.

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16 May 01:12

Speedrun

Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun.

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13 May 18:39

Results Age

Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.

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12 May 09:00

Pullback Drive

"How does the spring not run out almost immediately?" "We pull it back REALLY far."

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08 May 18:09

Crystal Gazing

'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say.

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06 May 18:39

Aperiodic Table

Scientists occasionally invent alternative periodic table layouts, which is usually a sign that they don't have enough enrichment in their enclosures.

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05 May 20:09

Horizontal Stabilizers

It started as a mistake that everyone was afraid to admit to, and then it stuck because removing it 'looks silly.'.

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01 May 18:39

Bottle

"I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young."

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29 Apr 16:36

Simple Machines

It's hard to decide which simple machine system to invest in. DeWalt makes a great lever and inclined plane, but I hear Milwaukee's wheel-and-axles are really good.

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28 Apr 04:30

Soniferous Aether

Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We're putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.

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24 Apr 15:36

Husband and Wife

Borat came out twenty years ago this year--closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today--but it honestly feels like it's been even longer, somehow.

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22 Apr 21:39

Border Message

Thanks to differences in logging regulations, the messages actually turned out to be visible from the air.

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21 Apr 03:57

Types of Board Game

I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.

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18 Apr 00:42

Europa Missions

Before resurfacing, they promise to inspect the ice for any evidence of hockey-playing life.

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15 Apr 21:39

Make It Myself

It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!

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13 Apr 22:54

Countdown Standard

Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.

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10 Apr 21:39

Lightning

Maybe you should wear one too? I guess I'm taller than you, so as long as I have one we're fine.

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08 Apr 18:39

Overton

I think I accidentally installed an Overton window in my bedroom. A few months ago, the sun wasn't in my face in the morning, but now it is.

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06 Apr 21:54

Grammar

Communication is one of the most popular ways to transmit information, ahead of rivals such as

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03 Apr 12:36

Day Counter

It has been −2,147,483,648 days since our last integer overflow.

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01 Apr 20:39

Creation

This xkcd.com update introduces a variety of new reading modes which can be activated through the menu below the comic.