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Randall Munroe

@xkcd

2 years

WHAT IF? 2 is an instant New York Times bestseller! Haven't started reading it yet? Don't miss out:

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My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created

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Control Group

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Siphon

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Road Space Comparison

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Division Notation

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Cool S

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I created a Google Calendar event in the year 7777 CE, but the start time in the confirmation email is off by an hour from the one in the calendar. I love imagining the heavy sigh from whoever handles this bug report.

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Tractor Beam

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Types of Scientific Paper

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Flag Interpretation (2019)

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Path Minimization

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(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video. Well, I have good news.

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Outdated Periodic Table

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Selection Bias

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Wikipedia Article Titles

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I was trying to take a nice photo of some sunspots, but the international community flew a space station RIGHT through my shot!! 😤

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Rotation

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Sphere Tastiness

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Language Acquisition

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Brassica

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Helium Reserve

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March 2020

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Game Night Ordering

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Only Serifs

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UFO Evidence

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Musical Scales

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I just want to say a little extra thank you to all the people who are squeamish about needles and got vaccinated over the past year anyway

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Typical Seating Chart

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Immunity

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Square Packing

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Change in Slope

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Rapid Test Results

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Oddly delighted by this phrase. “You know, eukaryotes—like sourdough starter or Conan O’Brien.”

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Supernova

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Data Trap

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My Favorite Things

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Hydropower Breakthrough

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What to Do

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Today’s date will never happen again

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Optimal Bowling

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Periodic Table Regions

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Shuttle Skeleton

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Lane Change Highway

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Log Cabin

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More of my grandfather’s Disfrustrating Puzzles

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Coordinate Plane Closure

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Heat Pump

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Global Temperature Over My Lifetime

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Urban Planning Opinion Progression

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THREAD: The evolution of Pokémon cards through history, as generated by DALL·E 2 For starters, here’s what DALL·E 2 thinks 21st century Pokémon cards look like, using prompts like “A Pokémon card from 2001”

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Fireflies

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Radians are Cursed

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One more set of my grandfather’s Disfrustrating Puzzles

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Recipe Relativity

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Noise Filter

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Physics Safety Tip

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Commemorative Plaque

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Every Data Table

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Dendrochronology

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Code Lifespan

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I asked #dalle for a painting titled “The Great Ship Fire” by a made-up artist, who I described as “widely regarded as the greatest painter in history.” Then I repeated the query but changed the description of the artist to “honestly not very good.”

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Alphabet Notes

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Euler Diagrams

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Ah yes, I can see how some people might get that impression

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Exoplanet High-5

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Symbols

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Hydrogen Isotopes

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Marble Run

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I recently invited a friend to an event that takes place during the 10 days in 1582 that don’t actually exist due to a Papal edict modifying the calendar

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Types of Eclipse Photo

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Overall, their results matched my answer in the chapter pretty well! The the surface of the steak was cooked by the winds, charred, and blasted away, while the interior stayed cold and raw. Conclusion: This is not a great way to cook steak.

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So thank you to Tom Fisher and Thomas Rees, who—despite splattering the interior of a research wind tunnel with bits of raw and cooked steak—were not kicked out of their university and both successfully got their PhDs!

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Goodhart’s Law