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xkcd #3264: 720 Ollie (thelemmy.club)
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xkcd #3264: 720 Ollie

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This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3264/

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xkcd #3263: Baryon Asymmetry

Title text:

Wait, what do you mean, 'dark matter'? It's not dark, it interacts with high-energy gamma rays ... right? Oh jeez, did I forget to make it interact?

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3263/

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xkcd #3262: Sports Commentary

Title text:

The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3262/

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xkcd #3261: Side Effect

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Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3261/

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xkcd #3260: Messi (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3260: Messi

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Commentators agree that this will probably be the last World Cup in which Messi faces serious competition.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3260/

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xkcd #3259: Tethys (thelemmy.club)
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xkcd #3259: Tethys

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In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3259/

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xkcd #3258: Plate Flip (thelemmy.club)
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xkcd #3258: Plate Flip

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It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3258/

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xkcd #3257: Beam Pipe (thelemmy.club)
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xkcd #3257: Beam Pipe

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'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3257/

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xkcd #3256: Nostalgia Content

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Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3256/

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xkcd #3255: Planetary Science

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The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3255/

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xkcd #3254: Detector (thelemmy.club)
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xkcd #3254: Detector

Title text:

No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3254/

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xkcd #3253: Sunbeam (thelemmy.club)
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xkcd #3253: Sunbeam

Title text:

While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3253/

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xkcd #3252: Ancestral Genomes

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SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3252/

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xkcd #3251: Time Machine Conversation

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It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3251/

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xkcd #3250: Flag Design

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Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3250/

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xkcd #3249: Neutrino Project

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We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3249/

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Framed "Bottle" (thelemmy.club)
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When Bottle first came out, I remember thinking it would look really good as a standalone print. I finally got around to tracing it in Inkscape and getting it printed!

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xkcd #3248: 182.8 Meters

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They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3248/

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xkcd #3247: Particle Census

Title text:

Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3247/

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