Via XKCD.
Posts Tagged ‘Randall Munroe’
Black holes versus regular holes
October 28, 2023Can you name the missing seven states?
December 12, 2020
Via XKCD. Hat tip to kottke.org.
The effectiveness of masks
October 3, 2020
Source: xkcd: Masks
Degrees of ambiguity in academia
March 2, 2020
Welcome to 2019
December 31, 2018
Who’s listening?
December 5, 2018
Source: XKCD.
Survivorship bias
May 5, 2017
Liquidity in the USA
April 19, 2017
Randall Munroe made this graphic on his XKCD site showing the relative amounts of liquids consumed by Americans. Note that the circles in the top graphic are the tiny circles in the upper left corner of the bottom graphic.
I’m not trying to make any particular political point with this graphic. I just thought it was interesting. As a former reporter for Gannett newspapers, I’m a great believer in presenting quantitative information in graphic form
Astronaut vandalism
April 3, 2017
Source: xkcd
The mind-body problem hotline
December 18, 2016
Source: xkcd: Trapped
A graphic history of global climate change
September 14, 2016
Source: xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline
How high is up?
June 4, 2016
The hierarchies of knowledge
February 21, 2016
I lifted these two cartoons from the Biology vs. Theoretical Physics post on the Sans Science web log, which is now private.
The top cartoon is, of course, from Randall Munroe’s xkcd series.
How should you tell the temperature?
February 16, 2016
Source: xkcd
xkcd: Lakes and oceans
January 19, 2016
Double click to enlarge.
Source: xkcd
Randall Munroe is not just a witty cartoonist and effective explainer. He is a master of the visual display of quantitative information. Look at the Deepwater Horizon well on the display to get an idea of just what that was, for example.
The economic argument against the paranormal
June 16, 2015
Source: xkcd.
Cancer and cell phones
June 15, 2015
Source: XKCD
What’s at stake in global climate change
May 15, 2015
Source: xkcd.
Science and stamp collecting
May 12, 2015
Source: xkcd
The words for winter
February 25, 2015
Source: xkcd
We’re not used to really cold winters any more
February 13, 2015
Source: xkcd
The complete real estate of the Solar System
July 7, 2014
Randall Munroe shows the surface area of the planets and asteroids in the Solar System that are hard enough to walk on. Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus don’t count because they don’t have solid surfaces. If they did, their surfaces would be many times bigger than that whole map.
via xkcd. Hat tip to kottke.org.
Science and the sense of beauty
February 23, 2014
Click on xkcd for more Randall Munroe cartoons
I thought I was the only one like this
November 2, 2013
Click on xkcd for more Randall Munroe cartoons.
-10-day weather forecast
August 28, 2013
Click on xkcd for more Randall Munroe cartoons.
Phil Ebersole's Blog 