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Received — 25 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Room Code 23 May 2024 at 19:00

Room Code

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23 May 2024 at 19:00

Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.

Received — 22 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Exponential Growth 21 May 2024 at 19:00

Exponential Growth

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21 May 2024 at 19:00

Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

Received — 21 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Ocean Loop 19 May 2024 at 19:00

Ocean Loop

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19 May 2024 at 19:00

I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

Received — 18 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Bloom Filter 16 May 2024 at 19:00

Bloom Filter

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16 May 2024 at 19:00

Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.

Received — 16 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Elementary Physics Paths 14 May 2024 at 19:00

Elementary Physics Paths

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14 May 2024 at 19:00

==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

Received — 14 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Driving PSA 12 May 2024 at 19:00

Driving PSA

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12 May 2024 at 19:00

This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

Received — 10 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Chasing 9 May 2024 at 19:00

Chasing

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9 May 2024 at 19:00

Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

Received — 9 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Google Solar Cycle 7 May 2024 at 19:00

Google Solar Cycle

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7 May 2024 at 19:00

From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.

Received — 7 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Good and Bad Ideas 5 May 2024 at 19:00

Good and Bad Ideas

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5 May 2024 at 19:00

While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.

Received — 3 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Software Testing Day 2 May 2024 at 19:00

Software Testing Day

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2 May 2024 at 19:00

The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.

Received — 1 May 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Alphabetical Cartogram 30 April 2024 at 19:00

Alphabetical Cartogram

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30 April 2024 at 19:00

Poor Weeoming.

Received — 29 April 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Doppler Effect 28 April 2024 at 19:00

Doppler Effect

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28 April 2024 at 19:00

The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.

Received — 26 April 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Earth Formation Site 25 April 2024 at 19:00

Earth Formation Site

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25 April 2024 at 19:00

It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.

Received — 24 April 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Pendulum Types 23 April 2024 at 19:00

Pendulum Types

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23 April 2024 at 19:00

The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.

Received — 22 April 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Scary Triangles 21 April 2024 at 19:00

Scary Triangles

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21 April 2024 at 19:00

Concealed mostly beneath the surface, sharks are the icebergs of the sea.

Received — 19 April 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Pub Trivia 18 April 2024 at 19:00

Pub Trivia

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18 April 2024 at 19:00

Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London

Received — 18 April 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Eclipse Path Maps 17 April 2024 at 19:00

Eclipse Path Maps

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17 April 2024 at 19:00

Okay, this eclipse will only be visible from the Arctic in February 2063, when the sun is below the horizon, BUT if we get lucky and a gigantic chasm opens in the Earth in just the right spot...

Received — 16 April 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Survey Marker 14 April 2024 at 19:00

Survey Marker

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14 April 2024 at 19:00

Fun fact: The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-center by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place.

Received — 12 April 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Sitting in a Tree 11 April 2024 at 19:00

Sitting in a Tree

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11 April 2024 at 19:00

First comes blood / Then we perish / Then comes Death in his Eternity Carriage.

Received — 11 April 2024 ⏭ Comics

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Tick Marks 10 April 2024 at 19:00

Tick Marks

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10 April 2024 at 19:00

If you're really savvy, you can hide an entire set of illicit transactions by timing them to draw what looks like a graph inset.