https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Jgoakleyexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-05-24T16:12:51ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1904:_Research_Risks&diff=146793Talk:1904: Research Risks2017-10-18T15:03:18Z<p>Jgoakley: Possible reference to Wikipedia discussion</p>
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Entymology? Misspelled "entomology" or (more confusingly) "etymology"?<br />
Psychology lower risk than micology? Absolutely hogwash!<br />
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Molasses storage is misplaced -- should be in the quadrant to its right. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood]. 21 dead and 150 injured. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.52|108.162.219.52]] 14:12, 18 October 2017 (UTC)<br />
Agreed that it did get out and kill people. But only once in something like 200 years and only a few. (Is this where the phrase slower than molasses in January comes from?) <br />
I would not expect that this would be a common danger.<br />
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I think entymology is a reference to [https://xkcd.com/1012 1012]<br />
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.95|162.158.91.95]] 14:50, 18 October 2017 (UTC)<br />
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I think the title text may have a somewhat humorous naming scheme derived from the Great Molasses Flood Wikipedia discussion page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Great_Molasses_Flood<br />
There's a lengthy discussion about changing the name from "Boston Molasses Disaster" to "Great Molasses Flood". I noticed that Randall used both approaches to describing the events in the title text, but maybe that was a coincidence.</div>Jgoakley