The Contiguous 41 States
xkcd imagines what it would be like if Alaska and Hawaii created maps that left off other states as well. Linguists, settling some inscrutable grudge,…
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xkcd Answers How Many Fireflies It Would Take to Match the Brightness of the Sun
In the continuing What If? series, xkcd artist Randall Munroe answers the reader-submitted question, “How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the…
xkcd Describes What Would Happen If Someone Made a Lava Lamp Using Real Lava
In the latest edition of “What If?” by xkcd, Randall Munroe answers a sixth grade teacher who asks what would happen were someone to make…
xkcd Explains How Far Into Outer Space Something From the Earth Has Died
In keeping with the macabre theme of the Halloween season, the latest “What If?” by xkcd answers the question, “what is the farthest from Earth…
xkcd Explains How Long It Would Take a Bowling Ball to Sink to the Bottom of the Mariana Trench
In the latest edition of “What If?” by xkcd, Randall Munroe answers a reader who wonders how long it would take a seven-kilogram bowling bowl…
xkcd Determines How Long It Would Take to Visit All 50 States in the United States
In the latest edition of “What If?” by xkcd, Randall Munroe addresses an article from Data Pointed determining how quickly an individual could potentially travel…
xkcd Figures Out What Would Happen to the Earth If All of the Bodies of Water Were to Suddenly Vanish
In the latest edition of “What If” by xkcd, Randall Munroe answers a reader who asks what would happen to the Earth if all of…
What If Books Worked Like Infinite-Scrolling Webpages by xkcd
“Infinite Scrolling,” the latest comic by xkcd, imagines what it would be like if books worked like infinite-scrolling webpages. image via xkcd
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, A Book Based on xkcd’s Blog ‘What If?’
For the past two years Randall Munroe, creator of the comic xkcd, has been answering outlandish hypothetical questions on his science blog, What If? Today…
xkcd Figures Out How Long Humans Could Survive on Cannibalism Alone
Randall Munroe answers a reader who asks how long our species would be able to survive just by eating one another in the latest edition…