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Only Serifs

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9 February 2023 at 19:00

If you ever want to get beaten up by a bunch of graphic designers, try removing the serifs from Times New Roman and adding them to Comic Sans.

Coordinate Plane Closure

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7 February 2023 at 19:00

3D graphs that don't contact the plane in the closure area may proceed as scheduled, but be alert for possible collisions with 2D graph lines that reach the hole and unexpectedly enter 3D space.

Electron Color

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5 February 2023 at 19:00

There's quark color, but that's not really color--it's just an admission by 20th century physicists that numbers are boring.

Size Comparisons

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2 February 2023 at 19:00

If you shrank the Solar System to the size of Texas, the Houston metro area would be smaller than a grasshopper in Dallas.

Bursa of Fabricius

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31 January 2023 at 19:00

If an anatomical structure is named for a person, it means they were the only person to have it. Pierre Paul Broca had a special area of his brain that created powerful magnetic fields, enabling him to do 19th century fMRI research.

K-Means Clustering

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29 January 2023 at 19:00

According to my especially unsupervised K-means clustering algorithm, there are currently about 8 billion types of people in the world.

Code Lifespan

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26 January 2023 at 19:00

Surely (no one/everyone) will (recognize how flexible and useful this architecture is/spend a huge amount of effort painstakingly preserving and updating this garbage I wrote in 20 minutes)

Planet Killer Comet Margarita

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24 January 2023 at 19:00

I'll take mine on the rocks, no ice.

Lane Change Highway

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22 January 2023 at 19:00

I just think lane markers should follow the local magnetic declination.

Runtime

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19 January 2023 at 19:00

At least there's a general understanding all around that Doctor Who is its own thing.

Methodology Trial

xkcd.com

17 January 2023 at 19:00

If you think THAT'S unethical, you should see the stuff we approved via our Placebo IRB.

Sunspot Cycle

xkcd.com

15 January 2023 at 19:00

Who can forget the early 2010s memes? 'You know you're a 90s kid if you remember the feeling of warm sunlight on your face.' 'Only 90s kids remember the dawn.'

Washing Machine Settings

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12 January 2023 at 19:00

I guess the engineers who built my dishwasher MIGHT have some insight into how to load it, but instead of reading the booklet they gave me, it seems easier to experiment for years and then get in arguments so heated that I get banned from Quora.

Outdated Periodic Table

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10 January 2023 at 19:00

Researchers claim to have synthesized six additional elements in the second row, temporarily named 'pentium' through 'unnilium'.

Etymonline

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8 January 2023 at 19:00

NOTE TO FUTURE ETYMONLINGUISTS: Our best guess is that 'blimp' is onomatopoeia. The 'B-Limp' thing is a folk etymology.

Euler Diagrams

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5 January 2023 at 19:00

Things Leonhard Euler created ( most of math ( overlapping circle diagrams ) a cricket bowling machine ) Things John Venn created

Biology vs Robotics

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3 January 2023 at 19:00

Sorry, I've just always had these random things I don't like--like olives, or robots drilling holes in me without warning.

Hydrogen Isotopes

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1 January 2023 at 19:00

Oops, All Neutrons is also known as Neutral Quadrium, Nydnonen, and Goth Tritium.

New Year's Eve Party

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29 December 2022 at 19:00

[Earlier, at the eye doctor] 'No, for the last time, the numerals on the paper aren't my prescription, it's the shape I want you to make with the laser.'

L6 Lagrange Point

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26 December 2022 at 19:00

It's difficult to orbit L6 stably due to gravitational perturbation from Akron and Toledo.