The distance to the stars is often explained by how long it takes light to travel to us from them. That works in the other direction, too. Today's xkcd panel gives us another way to visualize those distances by showing h...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/15/Interstellar-Memes/
Randall Munroe , the cartoonist behind xkcd and a profoundly brai...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/20/What-Would-Happen-if-Every-Ship-Was-Removed-from-the-Oceans-at-Once/
When you explain complicated concepts to an extraterrestrial, or a time-traveler, or a child with no frame of reference, you must boil the idea down to its simplest elements. But sometimes doing that reveals that the con...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/13/Explaining-Steroids-to-an-Alien/
At Randall Munroe 's What If? blog, where he researches the oddest q... ...s with enough atmosphere to even consider flight, Munroe looks at the pure physics of the flight, and only...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/30/Interplanetary-Cessna/
If you are trying to avoid the flu, simple math te... ...ng all your faith in hand sanitizer is a mistake. Randall Munroe at xkcd even did the math for you! Wash your hand...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/17/Hand-Sanitizer/
The creator of the webcomic xkcd, Randall Munroe , is one of the internet's favorite people. The "w... ...nty of each. Then it veered into medical science. Munroe explained that everything changed when his fianc&... ...years since the diagnosis. Congratulations to the Munroes
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/30/Two-Years/
There are around a half-million words in the full... ...se only a few thousand in everyday communication. Randall Munroe of xkcd explains the Saturn V rocket using only t... ...mmonly-used English words. This comic grew out of Munroe 's journeys into Simple English Wikipedia. You can...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/20/US-Space-Teams-Up-Goer-Five/
This late in the presidential election season, doe... ...four years to watching a never-ending horse race? Randall Munroe at xkcd noticed that our obsession with the polls...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/05/Poll-Watching/
Surely, you've seen his comics xkcd on t... ...you've seen his new site What If, where Randall pondered things like what would happen if... ...un!) Megan Garber of The Atlantic spoke to Munroe about how the new What If series got st...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/26/Interview-with-Randall-Munroe/
How big can one webcomic panel be? Randall Munroe pushes the limits in one xkcd panel. Click and dr...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/19/Click-and-Drag/
