| titletext = Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'.
...ong called ''Every Major's Terrible'' and this comic illustrates the song. In this song the term {{w|Major (academic)|Major}} refers to the US version of
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...lity, and later versions of reCAPTCHA can simply perform the tests quietly in the background without needing user consent.
...eper (video game)|Minesweeper}}, on the other hand, is a logic puzzle game in which the player is presented with a grid of unrevealed squares and must de
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...h the sequels while in the theater. They just don't hold up nearly as well in later comparison.
...] several times (for instance he mentions The Matrix again two years later in [[891: Movie Ages]].)
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...on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--f
(The term 'Umwelt,' as mentioned in the comic, refers to the semiotic theories of Jakob von UexkĆ¼ll and Thomas
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...e them more memorable, mnemonics are usually quite silly and often vulgar. In this comic, Randall invents various scientific mnemonics, some of them as s
...options for new mnemonics suggested by Randall. The top one is illustrated in the frame.
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...it of fun at the overreaction by users on {{w|Twitter}} (rebranded as "X", in July 2023, long after this comic).
...existed). Some of the handles continue their interactions with each other in later tweets.
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...bious or no factual basis. This comic was posted on {{w|Independence Day}} in 2007, which may explain its focus on classically American issues such as fr
...l amendments are proposed by Congress, which isn't anonymous, meaning that in effect, all articles of the Constitution are technically already semi-prote
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...he expanded perspective over the landscape attained by early experimenters in overland flight.
...ings, humorous details, people here and there, cave mazes, things floating in the air, jokes and references, unexpected things, relaxing views, etc.
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...e link between jelly beans and acne. They find no link, but in the end the real result of this research is bad news reporting!
...that eat jelly beans have more acne than those who do not. If more people in the group that eat jelly beans have acne, then you might think that jelly b
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| titletext = When advertisers figure this out, our only weapon will be blue sharpies and "[disputed]".
...rences for particular facts are linked to by bracketed little blue numbers in {{w|superscript}}.<font color="#36b"><sup>[1][3][4]</sup></font> When faced
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...why is the sky blue?" and a parent could respond, "Well Susie, the sky is blue to match your dress."
File:guest_comic_week_zach_weiner_smbc_27.png|In this exhibit the marquee claims that basilisks exist, and that they live un
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...tletext = SomethingAwful has a wonderful compilation of crazy AOL searches in their Weekend Web archives, 2006-08-13.
...trayed in Jurassic Park were much more like utahraptors than velociraptors in terms of size.
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...ers or month names in a distinct and fixed shape ({{w|Number form}}), etc. In [[1608: Hoverboard]] [[Megan]] stands at [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/i
{{w|Color-blindness}} is one of a number of conditions in which a person cannot distinguish certain pairs of colors that other people
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:472: <span style="color:blue">House</span> of Pancakes}}
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...ecurring joke of the comic, which is the juxtaposition of related searches in specific orders for a humorous implication. For example, the [[#Section Six
...ime, a particularly strange or hilarious one may be found, as is evidenced in this comic.
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...ted as well. If there is a title, it will be written in '''bold''' letters in the transcript.
:[Almost is written in a very small font compared to the rest]
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....com/Kenneth+Wingate+Regan Kenneth Regan's] computer analysis - as written in the Chess panel) and are thus shown as dashed lines prior to 1970. The char
...t, and thus could have been no. 1 a few years before. This can all be seen in the '''[[#Data tables|data tables]]''' below.
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...sets that have exactly seven objects. This leads him to exchange the items in the sets without noticing, to the point where, when attempting to list a si
...although they would not just choose words from other sets of seven to fill in the gaps.
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| titletext = Little-known fact: The 'Dawn of Man' opening sequence in 2001 cuts away seconds before the Flintstones theme becomes recognizable.
...ency goes back to ancient mythology. The opposite approach, setting a work in a speculative future, has been less common prior to modern times. The oldes
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