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- 15:40, 30 July 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+112) . . 2496: Mine Captcha (→Explanation: : Probably not ''especially'' difficult for experienced players, since at least they have the background to figure it out, but still likely to trip them up since they're being asked to do what they usually don't.)
- 00:55, 29 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . Talk:2127: Panama Canal (Undo revision 171610 by Netherin5 (talk))
- 00:46, 29 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+333) . . Talk:2365: Messaging Systems (MMS)
- 04:35, 17 September 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+100) . . 2360: Common Star Types (→Explanation: : More detail about what the hypothetical Wikipedia hatnote would imply. Also a play on words about Brad Bird.)
- 06:20, 23 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+289) . . 2336: Campfire Habitable Zone (→Explanation: How marshmallows become tidally locked.)
- 04:38, 9 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+250) . . 2330: Acceptable Risk (Their screaming actually increases the risk of the interaction; this is why Japan recently banned screaming on amusement park rides (citing a WSJ article).)
- 06:45, 3 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+199) . . Talk:2327: Oily House Index (Definition of division by zero, for the record.)
- 06:20, 3 July 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+289) . . 2327: Oily House Index (→Explanation: Where does the extra oil go when the house is filled?)
- 14:46, 1 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m 2287: Pathogen Resistance (OK, I guess the singular was correct here.)
- 14:45, 1 April 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+145) . . 2287: Pathogen Resistance (→Explanation: The drawing is wildly out of scale; a protozoon is much larger than a bacterium, which in turn is much, much larger than a virus. (Also more links to Wikipedia.))
- 00:47, 29 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+227) . . Talk:2286: 6-Foot Zone (Thanks for that explanation! When I saw the title text, I was worried that WHO had increased the recommendation and I'd missed it.)
- 14:43, 23 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+20) . . m Talk:2284: Sabotage (Fixed now.)
- 05:19, 23 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+462) . . Talk:2284: Sabotage (I don't entirely understand this comic (else I wouldn't be here), but I don't think that the current explanation is on the right track.)
- 05:15, 23 March 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 2284: Sabotage (→Explanation: Explain what's bad about Baby Shark.)
- 13:00, 5 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+178) . . Talk:2233: Aurora Meaning (Missing location.)
- 12:50, 5 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+84) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: : Using the time setting on the client's computer is a feature, not a bug.)
- 22:44, 3 September 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+6,865) . . Talk:2198: Throw (Undo revision 179098 by DgbrtBOT (talk) (The bot finally created this page by overwriting everybody's comments.))
- 08:59, 5 August 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+276) . . Talk:Disappearing Sunday Update (unixkcd works now, and there is now a list of explanations of the unusual methods)
- 08:55, 5 August 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,685) . . Disappearing Sunday Update (→Explanation: : Report that next button is fixed; add list of methods for people to explain)
- 16:38, 3 April 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+20) . . m 2132: Percentage Styles (→Explanation: Update hatnote.)
- 16:33, 3 April 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+257) . . 2132: Percentage Styles (→Explanation: Explain 65 per cent and the etymology.)
- 11:25, 25 March 2019 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m Talk:2127: Panama Canal (Fix wrong name)
- 02:57, 23 March 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+317) . . Talk:2127: Panama Canal (Fun fact)
- 19:58, 22 March 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+294) . . Talk:2127: Panama Canal (Fun fact)
- 22:11, 9 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+157) . . 2070: Trig Identities (Restore last unmangled version)
- 21:52, 9 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+366) . . 2070: Trig Identities (→Explanation: More on arctangent theta.)
- 13:20, 16 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+305) . . 2059: Modified Bayes' Theorem (Everything's better with transfinite ordinal numbers!)
- 13:16, 16 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+55) . . 2059: Modified Bayes' Theorem (Express directly what it's interpolating between, removing need to apply the unmodified theorem to produce the modified theorem, thereby removing the problematic self-referential aspects.)
- 13:03, 16 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,187) . . Talk:2059: Modified Bayes' Theorem (Removed paragraph that makes no sense.)
- 12:54, 16 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-828) . . 2059: Modified Bayes' Theorem (Remove paragraph that makes no sense (preserved on Talk).)
- 21:50, 4 August 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . m Miss Lenhart (remove spurious line break)
- 12:46, 5 July 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-7) . . 2015: New Phone Thread (→Explanation: Another more natural original word, suggested by an anon in the comments.)
- 12:41, 5 July 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-5) . . 2015: New Phone Thread (→Explanation: A couple of the adjectives in the possible original title text seem unnatural; replacing with alternatives.)
- 12:39, 5 July 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-118) . . 2015: New Phone Thread (→Explanation: Ad paragraph pnly once, still with both possibilities.)
- 04:50, 21 June 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+470) . . 2009: Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (→Table: Commentary on France and Europa.)
- 09:46, 17 June 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . 2007: Brookhaven RHIC (Must be Suite D, since surrounded on either side by Ste C and Ste E.)
- 09:38, 17 June 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+141) . . 2007: Brookhaven RHIC (This is an actual map of the area around {{w|Brookhaven National Laboratory}}, with west at the top. Also zip codes and fix name of Glen Dr store (which need a suite letter).)
- 20:56, 6 June 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+530) . . Talk:2003: Presidential Succession (All of this talk about ''where'' people were born is very misleading. The general opinion is that you have to have been a citizen from birth, not born in the U.S. (or a U.S. territory or whatever).)
- 20:42, 6 June 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,281) . . 2003: Presidential Succession (More on the commission's recommendation, and some more minor changes.)
- 19:36, 8 May 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . 1990: Driving Cars (→Explanation: Maybe this is nitpicking language use, but a crash isn't NECESSARILY an accident. Also ‘car crash’ is pithier than ‘car accident’ (although I retained ‘automotive accident’ below).)
- 19:34, 8 May 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+25) . . 1990: Driving Cars (→Explanation: It's not simply above, it's also below, and overall to the left.)
- 10:38, 3 May 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+38) . . 1988: Containers (→Explanation: hopefully the one that it does well)
- 20:52, 25 April 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+253) . . Talk:1985: Meteorologist (Explaining the process)
- 18:13, 27 March 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+10) . . 1972: Autogyros (→Transcript: You need to say how many sentences are in each section for the transcript, because you can't assume that people can see it.)
- 20:18, 10 February 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-14) . . 1953: The History of Unicode (→Explanation: Not clear that it's international, since Maine and New Hampshire are currently both within the USA. But clearly something has changed!)
- 20:15, 10 February 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+7) . . 1953: The History of Unicode (→Explanation: There are two Senators from =each State, but you can still use ‘the’ if you include ‘junior’ (or ‘senior’) by seniority in the position.)
- 23:12, 30 January 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+96) . . 1948: Campaign Fundraising Emails (→Explanation: Clickbait for clickbait.)
- 21:15, 27 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+265) . . 1934: Phone Security (→Explanation: Note that all of these security measures, except for the remote detonation, could theoretically be done by a security app on a phone, although the fake factory reset and most of what follows would probably be rather difficult.)
- 11:25, 4 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+171) . . 1923: Felsius (→Table of Given Conversions & Additional: Saturated salt water freezes at less than 0°F (and always has))
- 10:19, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+184) . . 1923: Felsius (→Explanation: Explain what symbol is used here.)
- 04:58, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,380) . . Talk:1923: Felsius (Multiple comments, but particularly about ammonium chloride.)
- 04:44, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-94) . . 1923: Felsius (→Explanation: Unfortunately, ammonium chloride and water now combine at 4°F since °F was redefined; see the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigorific_mixture)
- 20:02, 1 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+272) . . 1923: Felsius (→Table of Given Conversions & Additional: Edit table to use exact values in C and F column as appropriate, allowing rounding in E column sometimes.)
- 19:13, 1 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+442) . . 1923: Felsius (→Explanation: Describe Randall's symbol (which is necessary for unsighted readers) in excessive detail (which is not really necessary but I did it anyway).)
- 18:27, 18 October 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . 1904: Research Risks (→Explanation: Note title-text reference.)
- 18:06, 20 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+206) . . Talk:1865: Wifi vs Cellular (To get something to load on my computer, sometimes I have to turn on my phone's wifi hotspot (or tethering).)
- 19:36, 17 April 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+46) . . 1825: 7 Eleven (→Explanation: Navajo exception to Arizona exception (it's even worse than it sounds))
- 14:29, 14 February 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+53) . . 558: 1000 Times (→Explanation: He's not talking to bankers. And a little more rephrasing.)
- 19:22, 27 January 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . m 1791: Telescopes: Refractor vs Reflector (→Transcript: Grammar)
- 19:20, 27 January 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+126) . . 1791: Telescopes: Refractor vs Reflector (→Explanation: "Chernobog" vs "Chernabog")
- 12:18, 2 December 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+295) . . 1767: US State Names (→Table of States: Postal abbreviations link NE and NB.)
- 12:07, 2 December 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+136) . . 1767: US State Names (Another interpretation of "name".)
- 16:51, 20 July 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+1,256) . . 1709: Inflection (I don't know if we need all of these lines, but if we're going to have them, then it's weird to skip some. And a paragraph pointing out what's going on. Should we put in a Spanish table to compare?)
- 17:00, 20 April 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+135) . . 1670: Laws of Physics (→Explanation: ‘In other words, while flinching may indicate doubt of the laws of physics, it may equally well indicate trust in the laws of biology.’)
- 19:20, 7 April 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . m 1664: Mycology (→Explanation: Proper formatting.)
- 19:17, 7 April 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+191) . . 1664: Mycology (→Explanation: It goes deeper than you realize!)
- 22:23, 22 January 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+1,651) . . 1633: Possible Undiscovered Planets (→Explanation: Various …)
- 21:34, 22 January 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+377) . . Talk:1633: Possible Undiscovered Planets (Reply about stars.)
- 16:51, 22 November 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+356) . . 1450: AI-Box Experiment (→Explanation: Great idea from 108.162.215.168 on the talk page about friendly AI (another Yudkowsky-affiliated idea).)
- 16:32, 22 November 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+413) . . 1450: AI-Box Experiment (→Explanation: Various edits, but notably: replace WP link on basilisk with much more extensive RationalWiki link.)
- 07:14, 17 November 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+140) . . 1448: Question (→Explanation: Tooltip = ending; link Wikipedia (but which has spoilers).)
- 08:51, 29 September 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+39) . . 1427: iOS Keyboard (→Explanation: more parenthetical notes)
- 08:58, 11 August 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+182) . . Talk:1406: Universal Converter Box (I was mildly sad to see that the token ring was not accompanied by a Tolkien ring.)
- 08:50, 9 August 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+42) . . 1405: Meteor (→Meteor & Magma: Fixing definitions as can be found by following the links.)
- 08:35, 9 August 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+396) . . Talk:1405: Meteor (Meteors)
- 20:09, 8 August 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+172) . . 1405: Meteor (Rearranging some things, being more pedantic about others.)
- 16:15, 2 July 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+84) . . 1389: Surface Area (→Explanation: More on space needle and complications of stitching.)
- 19:59, 2 June 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+204) . . Talk:1376: Jump (If Cueball isn't following the Earth's curvature, he could end up in Valinor.)
- 17:30, 19 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,777) . . Talk:1357: Free Speech (Rights)
- 23:55, 18 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+694) . . Talk:1357: Free Speech (Scope of the First Amendment)
- 23:41, 18 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,272) . . Talk:1357: Free Speech (This comic has it completely backwards!)
- 19:52, 11 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,022) . . 1354: Heartbleed Explanation (Complete transcript. Please proofread.)
- 14:20, 11 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m 1354: Heartbleed Explanation (→Transcript: It's hard to read, but I expect Amber to request pages (as many other users do) rather than passwords.)
- 12:41, 7 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+121) . . 1352: Cosmologist on a Tire Swing (→Explanation: More WP links.)
- 12:36, 7 April 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+162) . . User talk:TobyBartels (current)
- 00:02, 13 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+140) . . 1341: Types of Editors (→Explanation: ("The horse is a noble animal" is the name of a giant rocking-horse sculpture in Yorkshire, or at least that's what Google returns for it.))
- 13:05, 5 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+288) . . Talk:1338: Land Mammals (I would love to identify specific groups!)
- 18:14, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,179) . . Talk:1335: Now (Various)
- 18:02, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-115) . . 1335: Now (The problems with my initial write-up have been fixed. If this is still incomplete, then it's for different reasons.)
- 13:19, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . m 1335: Now (Proofread much?)
- 13:18, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+9) . . 1335: Now (→Explanation)
- 13:17, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+20) . . 1335: Now (→Explanation)
- 13:15, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+149) . . Talk:1335: Now
- 13:14, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+412) . . 1335: Now (→Explanation: I REALLY should have saved a screen shot!)
- 05:53, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+42) . . 1335: Now (→Explanation)
- 05:42, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . Template:LATESTCOMIC (1335!)
- 05:37, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+23) . . N 1335 (TobyBartels moved page 1335 to 1335: Now) (current)
- 05:37, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m 1335: Now (TobyBartels moved page 1335 to 1335: Now)
- 05:31, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+456) . . 1335: Now (→Explanation: I should have saved a screen shot, because now I have no evidence of this 10-minute mistake!)
- 05:23, 26 February 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+200) . . 1335: Now (→Explanation)
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