The distance to the stars is often explained by ho... .... That works in the other direction, too. Today's xkcd panel gives us another way to visualize those dis... ...y reach those stars. You can enlarge the image at xkcd
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/15/Interstellar-Memes/
Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind xkcd and a profoundly brainy guy, answers bizarre phys...
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 questions from readers, he tells us what would happen to a typical airplane if it were flown on other planets and the larger moons in the solar system. Fo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/30/Interplanetary-Cessna/
If you are trying to avoid the flu, simple math te... ...in hand sanitizer is a mistake. Randall Munroe at xkcd even did the math for you! Wash your hands, cover...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/17/Hand-Sanitizer/
The creator of the webcomic xkcd , Randall Munroe, is one of the internet's favorit...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/30/Two-Years/
There are around a half-million words in the full... ...sand in everyday communication. Randall Munroe of xkcd explains the Saturn V rocket using only the 1,000...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/20/US-Space-Teams-Up-Goer-Five/
This late in the presidential election season, doe... ...hing a never-ending horse race? Randall Munroe at xkcd noticed that our obsession with the polls that sh...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/05/Poll-Watching/
Friends, family, loved ones, distant relations- th... ....” Don’t ever change.Brought to us by XKCD
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/15/Identity/
Surely, you've seen his comics xkcd on the web before and perhaps you've se...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/26/Interview-with-Randall-Munroe/
