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Revision as of 10:01, 27 April 2021
Good Question is a more-or-less monthly column written by Randall Munroe in the Science section of the New York Times, beginning in November 2019. The columns give serious answers to science questions, illustrated in Munroe's inimitable style.
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The New York Times website ordinarily requires registration, and its content is always protected by copyright. Most particularly it is not under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License the way xkcd is. The good news: anyone can register for a free digital subscription to the New York Times, with access to 'recent' Science articles among some others, but outside of that only five articles per month. See Free Articles. |
Unlike for many of their other regular columnists, the New York Times does not provide a clickable link either on the byline Randall Munroe or on the column title Good Question (though there is an unlinked page that offers an incomplete list of Good Question articles). The following tables are intended to correct that omission.
| Column | Headline | Byline | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCIENCE | What Makes a Red Sky at Night (and at Morning) | Randall Munroe | Aug. 13, 2019 |
| GOOD QUESTION | If I Touched the Moon, What Would It Feel Like? | Randall Munroe | Nov. 12, 2019 |
| GOOD QUESTION | Is Earth Getting Bigger Over Time? | Randall Munroe | Dec. 10, 2019 |
| GOOD QUESTION | How Fast Can a Human Run? | Randall Munroe | Jan. 21, 2020 / Feb. 7, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | What’s the World’s Worst Smell? | Randall Munroe | Feb. 17, 2020 / Feb. 26, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | What if Galileo Had Dropped Bobsleds From the Tower of Pisa? | Randall Munroe | March 10, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | How’s the View From a Spinning Star? | Randall Munroe | April 7, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | What’s the Sweetest, Crispiest Way to Stay Safe in a Car Crash? | Randall Munroe | May 11, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | Can You Boil an Egg Too Long? | Randall Munroe | June 9, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | Could You Make a Snowball of Neutrinos? | Randall Munroe | July 7, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | How Hot Is Too Hot? | Randall Munroe | August 4, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | Can You Stop a Car With Your Hand? | Randall Munroe | October 6, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | What Makes Sand Soft? | Randall Munroe | November 9, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | Will My Popcorn Explode? | Randall Munroe | December 29, 2020 |
| GOOD QUESTION | Where Does a Candle Go When It Burns? | Randall Munroe | April 26, 2021 |
| Column | Headline | Byline | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| LINK BY LINK | This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix | Noam Cohen | May 26, 2008 |
| BITS | Tech’s Favorite Cartoonist Enters Mainstream Publishing | Noam Cohen | March 14, 2014 |
| SCIENCE | He’s Glad You Asked | Kenneth Chang | Nov. 3, 2014 |
| BOOKS | Randall Munroe Explains It All for Us | Alexandra Alter | Nov. 23, 2015 |
| SCIENCE | Randall Munroe, XKCD Creator, Goes Back to High School | Kenneth Chang | March 21, 2016 |
| SCIENCE | Randall Munroe of ‘XKCD’ Explains the Human Body, Elevators and the Saturn 5 | (Actual pages from Thing Explainer) | March 21, 2016 |
| BOOKS | Randall Munroe Loves Outdated Views of the Future | -- | Nov. 14, 2019 |
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