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- 07:57, 1 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . 2470: Next Slide Please (''{{w|We shall fight on the beaches}}'' speech.)
- 07:55, 1 June 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+44) . . 2470: Next Slide Please ({{w|Blood, toil, tears and sweat}} speech.)
- 13:53, 15 April 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+293) . . 2450: Post Vaccine Social Scheduling (The third person being sheduled for a movie before being fully vaccinated may be a reference to 2441: IMDb Vaccines, discusing the number of people that needs to be vaccinated to record a particular scene. However, if this comic is about going to the)
- 08:57, 18 February 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+137) . . Talk:2426: Animal Songs (Is it known whether Dr. Fauci owns a cat?--~~~~)
- 18:07, 29 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . 2418: Metacarcinization (→Explanation: {{w|Carcinization}})
- 19:04, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+151) . . 2412: 1/100,000th Scale World (→Table: However, at about 2-3 km thickness in real world, 1/100,000 scaled ice caps have a 2-3 cm thickness, which is a very convenient size to put in drinks.)
- 18:57, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+204) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: The {{w|Golden Gate Bridge}} is a suspension bridge in San Francisco, supported by two 93 cm wide cables. Scaled down, they would be 0.93 mm wide wires and it would be tempting to use them as a thigtrope.)
- 18:48, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (-10) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: not elemental hydrogen, but just plain current molecular hydrogen)
- 18:46, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+735) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: In the US, small parts are defined by [https://www.cpsc.gov/Business--Manufacturing/Business-Education/Business-Guidance/Small-Parts-for-Toys-and-Childrens-Products 16 C.F.R. Part 1501.2] as fitting in a cylindrical test fixture of 1.25 inches)
- 18:31, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: {{w|Hindenburg disaster|Hindenburg exploded}})
- 18:30, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+11) . . m Talk:2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (<pre>)
- 18:29, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+386) . . Talk:2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (Just for reference: the maths to scale down the Niagara Falls flow an convert from cubic feet to cubic centimeters: > 1e5*(.3048)^3*1000^2/(1e3)^3 [1] 2.831685 > 1e5*(.3048)^3*1000^2/(1e3)^3/2 [1] 1.415842 American editors may want to adapt the formulas)
- 18:27, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+115) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Explanation: Once scaled to 1/1000, that flow would be 2.83 or 1.41 cm3 per second, enough to fill a glass in about one minute.)
- 18:20, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+196) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: According to https://what-if.xkcd.com/147/, the Niagara Falls flow is regulated to 100.000 cubic feet per second on the tourist season and to 50.000 cubic feet per second off season and at night.)
- 18:17, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+144) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Table: | The {{w|Gateway Arch}} is a monument in Saint Louis, Misouri. Being a 192 m high arch, once scaled it would be 19.2 cm high, ideal for tripping.)
- 18:00, 27 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+71) . . 2417: 1/1,000th Scale World (→Explanation: and 2412: 1/100,000th Scale World)
- 19:21, 15 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+268) . . Talk:2412: 1/100,000th Scale World
- 19:19, 15 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+351) . . 2412: 1/100,000th Scale World (→Explanation: The tittle text states that the floor should be slightly curved. In fact, given that the model in the comic is about 10 meters long, it represents about 1000 km of Earth, that spans about 9 degrees of a great circle. Therefore, if the mo)
- 09:31, 12 January 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+181) . . 2410: Apple Growers (→Explanation: {{w|Cosmic Crisp}}, mentioned in title text, is a variety of apples developed in the Washington State University that has been on sale since 2019, amid a large marketing campaign.)
- 16:04, 27 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . 2391: Life Before the Pandemic (→Grilling in the Library: Grilling is not safe in doors or indoors, but I think the strip means the later.)
- 16:03, 27 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+17) . . 2391: Life Before the Pandemic (→Arcade Claw Machines: {{w|Claw crane|Arcade claw machines}})
- 16:01, 27 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . Talk:2391: Life Before the Pandemic (organizing threads)
- 16:01, 27 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+434) . . Talk:2391: Life Before the Pandemic (Non native speaker, here. Should the mouse-over text be understood as riding a horse in a shopping mall? That would make sense as it is as absurd as the other activities mentioned in the strip. "Mall" can have also other meanings, but riding through the N)
- 15:49, 18 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+55) . . 2386: Ten Years (→Explanation: with Randall being depicted as Clueball and his wife as Megan.)
- 09:44, 17 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+116) . . 2386: Ten Years (→Explanation: which according to 881: Probability wasn't unlikely but couldn't either be taken for granted (77% probability).)
- 09:38, 10 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+84) . . 2383: Electoral Precedent 2020 (→Explanation: By 1996 that had changed and both the incumbent [http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/websites/cg96/ Bill Clinton campaign] and the challenger [http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm Bob Dole campaing] had websites that look very simple by tod)
- 09:33, 10 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+237) . . 2383: Electoral Precedent 2020 (→Explanation: and Randall assumes the 1992 Clinton campaign not to have a website - in 1996 that had changed, although the [http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/websites/cg96/ 1996 Clinton - Gore campaign website] seems very simple by today's standards.)
- 13:12, 6 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+333) . . Talk:2381: The True Name of the Bear (I wonder if the fact that the brown bear (aka grizzly) has been disappearing from most of North-America as the Germanic languages expanded there, could be cited as (weak) evidence that the euphemism actually prevents bears from appearing.--~~~~)
- 22:02, 5 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+80) . . 2314: Carcinization ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameplay_of_Pok%C3%A9mon#Pok%C3%A9mon_evolution of Pokémon])
- 21:59, 5 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+102) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (and it is also [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IKnowYourTrueName a common trope] elsewhere. Some say a true name contains clear meaning of who someone or something really is.)
- 13:10, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (-18) . . m 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation)
- 13:09, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation)
- 13:08, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+19) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear ({{w|Sound change|sound shifting}})
- 13:06, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+310) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: Interestingly enough, the hypothesized word Arth is the same as the Welsh for the word bear. Welsh belongs to the Celtic language family, which is one of the Indoeuropean branches that still uses a word derived from *rkto-, as the Italic)
- 12:25, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: fairly wise)
- 12:23, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+105) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: but pronouncing it seems to actually summon an ours, showing that abandoning that word was a quite wise move for the forefathers of German language speakers.)
- 12:22, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+283) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: The Indoeuropean root for bears is *rkto-, which has been inferred from languages that use words derived for it. In the comic, Gretchen McCulloch applies sound shifting laws to it to guess how would have it evolved into English, but pron)
- 12:15, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+84) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: and it were replaced by an euphemisms in those branches. In the Germanic branch, the euphemism may have been like "the brown one" and words for bear derive from words for "brown".)
- 12:13, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+65) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: about [https://www.charlierussellbears.com/LinguisticArchaeology.html the theory])
- 12:12, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (The Canadian Internet linguist {{w|Gretchen McCulloch}})
- 12:10, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+124) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: - notably the Germanic one - and it were replaced by an euphemism like "the brown one" that lead to the English word "bear".)
- 12:08, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+208) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: The linguist Gretchen McCulloch [https://twitter.com/gretchenamcc/status/1113195661275611137?lang=ca tweeted] about the theory that the word for bear became taboo in some branches of Indoeuropean languages.)
- 09:48, 25 October 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+173) . . 2376: Curbside (→Explanation: This same kind of recursivity of tracking tracers has been previously explored to find finders and incinerate incinerators.)
- 23:44, 10 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+99) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: On the other hand, algae and cyanobacteria still {{w|Harmful algal bloom|can be locally harmful}}.)
- 00:21, 10 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+402) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: In fact, destroying the evidence, hiding the error and publishing the wrong results as if they were right is what a dishonest scientist would do. This is what a lot of readers would expect a dishonest character as Blackhat to suggest in)
- 18:56, 9 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+119) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: That suggests that algae may be somehow dangerous - although {{w|Cyanobacteria}} are no longer considered {{w|algae}}.)
- 18:54, 9 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+222) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: Mouse-over text is about the {{w|Great Oxidation Event}} when prokaryotic photosynthetic organisms built up oxygen in Earth atmosphere for the first time and most organisms, which weren't adapted to oxygen, went extinct.)
- 22:12, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+549) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: In fact, in most settings where a single outcome is a lot more common than any other one, predicting always that most common outcome would yield very high accuracy without any usefulness. It isn't hard to find examples even more accurate)
- 22:01, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (line break to avoid a large white gap (as seen in Chrome))
- 21:55, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+215) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: A reasonably useful prediction, however, should be likely to say "No" when it is not Christmas - as Randall's one does - but it should also be likely to say "Yes" when it's Christmas - which Radall's one doesn't -.)
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