If Humanity Vanished Overnight, How Long Would Earth Stay Lit? Nuclear Engineer Reacts to XKCD. Imagine humanity disappearing ...

What If the Three Wise Men Never Stopped Walking? A Nuclear Engineer Reacts to XKCD. What if the Three Wise Men had kept walking without ever stopping? A nuclear engineer explores the science behind t ...

On Oct. 23, 1989, the week before Halloween, readers opened their newspapers to find a distinctly different sort of Garfield.

UPDATE: 20 more slides added in 2nd presentation. Use these popular webcomics (open source) to spice up your plenary or homework activities, these multifaceted comics are great for stimulating further ...

I cannot believe I have just now discovered the Explain xkcd wiki. Randall Munroe’s xkcd comic about science and technology is wonderful, but my academic background isn’t always sufficient to ...

When the students threw up their hands, Fermi would walk them through a rough-and-ready estimation process that went something like this: If we know Chicago has a population of about 3 million, and we ...

Several decades ago, it took a stand-up comedian like Steven Wright to work in shades of the brilliantly surreal when he deadpanned: “It’s a small world. But I wouldn’t want to paint it.” Today, it ...

Just saying, maybe go easy with the candelabras. By Randall Munroe Where does a candle go when it burns, anyway? Is it healthy to be breathing in melted candle particles? How concerned should I be? — ...

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems is the latest book from Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind the popular Internet comic xkcd. How To explores complicated solutions to ...

XKCD is a stick-figure webcomic. While the drawings might be simple, the ideas explore universal concepts like romance, sarcasm, math, and language. The exchanges between stick figures can capture the ...

Say the name Randall Munroe to your average internet literate, and they might not recognize it. But they’ll certainly recognize the hundreds upon hundreds of stick figures he’s drawn over the 14 years ...