Title Text:The heat index is calculated via looking up the “effective temperature” in a table of air temperature and humidity values, and then adding a bunch more degrees because it feels WAY hotter than that. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2026/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2026:_Heat_Index 热指数 热指数的计算方法是，通过在空气温度和湿度值表中查找“有效温度”，然后再加上一些度数，因为实际感觉要更热。 https://www.xkcd.com……
Title Text:Your manuscript “Don’t Pay $25 to Access Any of the Articles in this Journal: A Review of Preprint Repositories and Author Willingness to Email PDF Copies for Free” has also been rejected, but nice try. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2025/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2025:_Peer_Review 同行审议 你的手稿“不需要花25美元来访问本杂志的文章：对预印存储库的审查，以及作者愿意免费发送PDF文件的意愿”。也被拒绝了，但是……
Title Text:Life hack: Wait for an advanced civilization to be briefly distracted, then sneak in and construct a slightly smaller Dyson sphere inside theirs. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2024/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2024:_Light_Hacks 生活黑客 生活黑客: 趁一个先进的文明被短暂地分散注意力的时候，偷偷溜进去，在他们的内部建造一个稍小一点的戴森球 https://www.xkcd.com.cn/2024/ “生活黑客”是以新颖的方式使用普通日常用品以增加日常活动的便利性或享受的做法。这个漫画在许… Read more
Title Text:We’ve also developed the semi-semi-log scale, where the Y-axis for the left half of the graph is a log scale but on the right half it isn’t. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2023/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2023:_Y-Axis Y轴 我们还开发了半对数刻度，图左边的y轴是对数刻度，但在右边的一半不是。 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HWZlr6BctSSn6Rzd-9RWww 图表应该是什么样子。 漫画本身对最近的趋势进行了研究，其中给定数据集的y范围被夸大了，因此通… Read more
Title Text:For a long time, people thought maybe Usain Bolt was the one for running, until the 2090s and the incredible dominance of Derek Legs. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2022/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2022:_Sports_Champions 在一个主格决定论的例子中，漫画列出了姓氏与他们参加各种体育运动有关的人。它被呈现为好像它是在遥远的未来创造的，反映了几十年到20世纪80年代的冠军。前三名是真正的运动员，其余的都是未来的想象者。这些名称从真实的，虚构的，但似乎是合理的，到罕见的或非常不寻常的，到完全不可信… Read more
Title Text:Update: It turns out the cannon has a motorized base, and can make holes just fine using the barrel itself as a battering ram. But due to design constraints it won’t work without a projectile loaded in, so we…
Title Text:P.S. We’re going to the beach this weekend, so I’m attaching my preregistration forms for that trip now, before we find out whether it produces any interesting results. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2020/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2020:_Negative_Results 阴性结果 这个周末我们要去海滩，我现在附上这次旅行的预登记表，究竟会不会产生什么有趣的结果，让我们拭目以待。 https://www.xkcd.com.cn/2020/ 最近，科学家们开始鼓励… Read more
Title Text:I’d like 0.4608 apples, please. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2019/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2019:_An_Apple_for_a_Dollar 一个苹果一美元 我想要0.4608个苹果 https://www.xkcd.com.cn/2019/ 梅根即将在一家杂货店买一个苹果，因为她惊讶于价格只有一美元。定价物品的一个常见做法是故意使它们略小于一个整数，例如1.99美元或1.95美元而不是2美元，作为使物品看起来比实际价格便宜得多的心理伎俩，因为“不到两美元”即使0.01的差异很小，但听起来要比“两美元”少得多。此外，在美国的大多数情况下，必须考虑销售税，因为… Read more
Title Text:At first, I moved from pok茅mon posters to regular oil paintings, but then these really grumpy and unreasonable detectives from the Louvre showed up and took them all. They wouldn’t even give me back my thumbtacks! Origin:https://xkcd.com/2018/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2018:_Wall_Art 墙壁艺术…
Title Text:I mean, it wasn’t exactly MY thesis. When the FAA came to shut down our observatory for using the telescope mirror to shine light at airplanes, I took a thesis and a bunch of doctorates from the supply cabinet…
