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2026-02-18 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3209/

My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.

SNEWS

2026-02-16 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3208/

People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.

Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

2026-02-13 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3207/

'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.

Installation

2026-02-11 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3206/

Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?

Carbon Dating

2026-02-09 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3205/

This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

2026-02-06 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3204/

Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.

Binary Star

2026-02-04 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3203/

The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.

Groundhog Day Meaning

2026-02-02 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3202/

Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.

Proof Without Content

2026-01-30 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3201/

There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.

Chemical Formula

2026-01-28 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3200/

Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.

Early Arthropods

2026-01-26 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3199/

'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects

Double-Pronged Extension Cord

2026-01-23 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3198/

'Oh, and can I borrow 50 sacks of loose flour, a pile of lithium-ion batteries, a bucket of bleach, and a bucket of vinega--' 'NO!!!!!!'

Cost Savings

2026-01-21 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3197/

Unfortunately, my scheme to trick NASA has now taken over a decade longer than planned and has run way over budget.

Aurora Coolness

2026-01-19 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3196/

I've had countless nights where the line never left the bottom zone of the graph, but the few moments where it's climbed all the way to the top have made up for them all.

International Station

2026-01-16 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3195/

Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!

16 Part Epoxy

2026-01-14 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3194/

Some surfaces may seem difficult to glue. But if you research the materials, find tables of what adhesives work on them, and prepare your surfaces carefully, you can fail to glue them in a fun NEW way that fills your house with dangerous vapors.

Sailing Rigs

2026-01-12 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3193/

I wanted to make the world's fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it's not a yawl anymore! It's a real ketch-22.

Planetary Alignment

2026-01-09 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3192/

We're going to need to modify the surface to mount it on the test stand. Which ocean basin do you like the least?

Superstition

2026-01-07 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3191/

It's important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. That's what my wise Uncle Ben told me right before he died; he might still be alive today if only I'd said rabbit rabbit that year!

Tensegrity

2026-01-05 xkcd.com

Post Syndicated from xkcd.com original https://xkcd.com/3190/

Some people argue that the tension and compression in the human skeleton is technically tensegrity, but it's missing the defining characteristic: making people say 'wtf, how is that thing floating?' when they see it.

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