Distorted Map Shows Each Country Forced Into Its Time Zone
A new map from XKCD’s Randal Monroe offers a glimpse into a bizarre alternate world where each country is forcibly squeezed into its respective time zone(s).
The XKCD Phone 4: Plenty of Headphone Jacks to Go Around
Now its fourth installment, Randall Munroe’s XKCD Phone series is superb satire on the ludicrous world of smartphone rumors. Following One, Two, and Three, the XKCD Phone Four gives fans what they’ve been craving—headphone jacks, lots of headphones jacks.
Lucky High School Students Are Getting XKCD In Their Textbooks
Randall Monroe’s XKCD does a stellar job of explaining scientific concepts while also making people laugh. So, it makes a surprising amount of sense for those comics to find their way into high school textbooks.
XKCD has always had best takes on astronomy, and took a fun look at the news that we might actually have a 9th planet in our solar system.
How to go to space, explained in the simplest and funniest way possible
Do you want to know how to go to space? But is the technical explanation way too complicated for you and all those terms and laws of physics and complicated math just too damn confusing? Don’t worry! This truly hilarious video from MinutePhysics and XKCD will explain how to get to space using only the 1000 most…
This Is How Your Computer Really Works
Really, it’s just a mess of things you’ve managed to force to co-exist and work together that, could all come tumbling down at any given moment.
Go Complete XKCD's Random Quiz in the Name of Arbitrary Science
Most surveys are written with the intent of finding something out. The XKCD survey, written by stick-cartoonist extraordinaire Randall Munroe, doesn’t have an end game — it’s just trying to collect random information from as many people as possible, and then find unlikely correlations.
What Happens If a Self-Driving Car's Passenger Isn't a Passenger?
Presumably someone at Google is making sure that the car knows its driver is actually a human, rather than a rock. Or a particularly large cat.
Just because nobody uses your public key doesn’t mean it isn’t a good idea . It just means your friends don’t really care about security.
The XKCD Phone 3: So Good They Made Another One
Following the huge success of the XKCD Phone 1 and XKCD Phone 2, Randall Munroe has announced the XKCD Phone 3.
XKCD Tips Its Hat to the Microbiome (and so Should You)
When was the last time you thanked the bugs in your belly? Even if the concept of a “healthy” microbiome is flawed, the trillions of microorganisms living in your gut (and mouth, and vagina, and nose, etc.) play a vital role in many of your body’s functions. They’re so essential, many refer to the microbiome as an…
Get a Sneak Peek at XKCD Creator Randall Munroe's New Book
We’re big fans of xkcd here at Gizmodo (who isn’t?), and also of learnin’ about things, so we’re pretty excited for Randall Munroe’s upcoming book of explainer drawings, THING EXPLAINER: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words. We’ve got a sneak peek for you, below.
This 8 Ball Predicts Your Future in Emojii
Will I ever find true love? How will I die? When will I get a raise? For some life’s biggest questions, the best answers must surely come from an 8-ball that predicts the future via the medium of emojii.
XKCD's Randall Munroe Is Publishing A Book Inspired by 'Up-Goer-Five'
In his comic “Up Goer Five,” Randall Munroe labels a blueprint of NASA’s Saturn V Rocket using only the 1,000 most common English words. Today, Munroe announced he’s giving the Up-Goer-Five treatment to a range of interesting objects—like the Mars Curiosity Rover—in a new book called Thing Explainer.
Today's XKCD Finally Takes Physics To Task
To be fair, though, physics has had this coming for years.
How Many Operating Systems Run in Your House?
Between phones, tablets, laptops, media centers, smart home devices and whatever other technology is scattered around your home, there are likely multiple operating systems in your life. But how many, exactly?
A Chart Comparing Publication Dates To When A Story Takes Place
Randall Munroe has really outdone himself with today's xkcd. The infographic shows when a certain story was published and then compares that date to the length of time — either in the future or past — to when the story actually took or will take place.
The 'Star Wars Tipping Point' Is At Hand
Are you feeling old this morning? Here, allow xkcd to make you feel old.
Could This Be The Answer To Ceres's Mysterious White Spot?
As Dawn slowly approaches Ceres, this dwarf planet's inexplicable white spot is increasingly coming into focus. Thanks to xkcd's Randall Munroe, we may finally have the answer.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Gets The #upgoerfive Treatment
"Up Goer Five" is a webcomic by XKCD's Randall Munroe that describes NASA's Saturn V Rocket using only the 1,000 most commonly used words in English. The comic spawned many #upgoerfive spinoffs – some of them excellent. Now, somebody's given the #upgoerfive treatment to SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 rocket.