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In 2005, Randall Munroe – then a physics student at university in Virginia – started scanning the doodles he’d been scribbling in lectures, drawing square boxes around them and uploading them to a ...

A vast majority of the world's software runs on open-source code. Can it be secured? Fans of physics, chemistry, math, and astronomy will love these educational toys and kits. While waiting for your ...

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 ...

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The blog led to the 2014 book What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, a collection of bizarre queries that Munroe doggedly researched and answered. By tying together a ...

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 ...

It’s a pretty safe bet that nobody is going to fill the solar system with soup, out to the orbit of Jupiter. For one thing, that would take a lot of soup—2 x 10 to the 39th power liters, which is also ...

See you in a quadrillion years or so. Don’t forget to pack zillions of tons of snacks! By Randall Munroe Swimmers often worry about attacks by certain marine predators. But beware the bite of a more ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with author Randall Munroe about his new book, "What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions." So question for you. If you unleashed a ...

Based on the 2001–2018 average, 1 out of every 1.5 billion humans is in space at any given time, most of them on board the International Space Station. ISS crew members ferry packages down from the ...