| titletext = People tell me I have too much time on my hands, but really the problem is that there's too much time, PERIOD.
...used to calculate the times and dates for the comic. It also has a lot of other percentages and dates, so take a look if you are interested.
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...Dear Wiccan readers: I understand modern Wiccans are not usually all about the curses and hexes. But Darth Vader was recently converted from Episcopaliani
...d comic in the [[:Category:Five-Minute Comics|Five-Minute Comics series]]. The series is composed of four comics, released between in November 2010 and Au
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...vorite nostalgia show is VH1's 'I Love The Inexorable March of Time Toward the Grave That Awaits Us All.'
...years gap between event and the moment when most people can't remember it, the gap becomes 35 years (implying a median of some 40 years).
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| titletext = I first saw this problem on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. A professor and I filled a blackboard without ge
...an interesting problem to solve. (This may be based on a real event—see the [[#Trivia|trivia]] section).
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...d every 14-year-old to do the same thing with Toy Story. Also, Pokemon hit the US over a decade ago and kids born after Aladdin came out will turn 18 next
...enough to hold a conversation with an adult. This proves effective, as in the final panel Rob assumes a fetal position, gripped by existential dread.
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...in the spot from the displaced pieces. It's a confusing maneuver known as the auto-troll shuffle.
...acters, so Congress has a lot of reservations about his {{w|résumé}}. At the time when this comic was released, Senate confirmation hearings occurred ra
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...size. He has been endorsed by Tracy Morgan, John Wilkes Booth's ghost, and the Time Cube guy.
...tatements Grayton has lost a substantial number of prospective voters, but the news anchor's failure to specify between percentage and percentage ''points
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| titletext = What's that? You think I don't like the Peters map because I'm uncomfortable with having my cultural assumptions ch
...navigation, for landmass size comparisons, etc.) but having drawbacks from other points of view. Some of them are more frequently used than others in mass m
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...e that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beachball will vanish and the thing it interrupted will return.
...], and to {{w|John Horton Conway}}, two days after he died, in [[2293: RIP John Conway]].
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...tes on your reddit comments to become president of the world. Please be at the UN tomorrow at 8:00 sharp.}}
...higher-class nets. By the end of the book, Peter has become the leader of the world, and Valentine runs away with Ender to a planet formerly inhabited by
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| titletext = The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed -- for Man has e
...ng tripods. Suddenly the windmills' pylons split into three legs, becoming the tripods suggested.
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...the first panel of this comic. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] is demonstrating the problem with making such statements, many of which simply come down to coin
...ecome more and more nested and complicated, and then brought by Randall to the point of absurdity by pointing out very trivial things, such as "No Democra
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...render their entire discussion a moot point by getting all the girls while the mathematicians ponder optimal strategies.
...gies, then they all would change their strategies simultaneously, breaking the equilibrium.
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Click the date above the comic to go to the xkcd page, and there is a link to the [http://xkcd.com/1127/large/ much larger version].
...e won the presidency without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket). Just around the election he posted two more comics related to this: [[1130: Poll Watching]]
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...or 'too close to call' is the gap between the consensus poll forecast and the result.
...270 electoral votes needed to win, a span of projections ("Forecast"), and the actual result.
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...into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
...on). Up to 2011 (when the comic was drawn), he has drawn a single line for the actual figures.
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| titletext = If at least one person has a nightmare about being swarmed by hundreds of mouse-sized droma
...been recreated via the sampling of ancient DNA recovered, primarily, from the stomachs of mosquitoes trapped in amber (fossilized tree sap).
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...card (i.e. 1/''n'', with ''n'' being the number on the card), according to the area formula for rectangles.
...This is referred to as the {{w|divergence of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes}}, and was proven by {{w|Euler}} in 1737.
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...uments for going to the moon work equally well as arguments for blowing up the moon, sending cloned dinosaurs into space, or constructing a towering penis
...ennedy calling them "the whole southern half of the globe", not to mention the Southern Hemisphere has regions which are not included (like Australia).
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