Title Text:Although Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it’s actually their outer edge. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2951/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2951:_Bad_Map_Projection:_Exterior_Kansas 糟糕的地图投影： 外围的堪萨斯 虽然人们普遍认为堪萨斯州位于美国 48 个毗连州的地理中心，但拓扑学家现在认为它实际上是这些州的外缘。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=… Read more
Title Text:We’re right under the flight path for the scheduled orbital launch, but don’t worry–it’s too cold out for the rockets to operate safely, so I’m sure they’ll postpone. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2950/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2950:_Situation 情况 我们正好在计划轨道发射的飞行路径下，但别担心——外面太冷了，火箭无法安全运行，所以我相信他们会推迟发射的。[5] 注： [1]. 氢气飞艇因氢气易燃而不安全，… Read more
Title Text:If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called ‘netcat’, though it does a different thing in each one. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2949/…
Title Text:An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2948/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2948:_Electric_vs_Gas 电动 vs 燃油 一台怠速的汽油发动机可能会发出恼人的噪音，但这是在静止状态下扭矩大大减小的代价。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2948 内燃机（ICE）长期以来一直是推动机动车辆（通常是特定形式的往复”活塞”发动机… Read more
Title Text:In contrast to Pascal’s Wager Triangle, Pascal’s Triangle Wager argues that maybe God wants you to draw a triangle of numbers where each one is the sum of the two numbers above it, so you probably should, just in…
Title Text:’Oh yeah? Give me 50 milliscore reasons why I should stop.’ Origin:https://xkcd.com/2946/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2946:_1.2_Kilofives 1.2 "kilofives" 哦，是吗？给我 50 “milliscore”个不这么做的理由。 注：英语中kilo-意思是千，milli-意思是千分之一，score意思是20。亚伯拉罕·林肯在著名的《葛底斯堡演说》中，使用了”four score and seven”来表达”87″；现代英语不使用这种方式来表达数字。 ht… Read more
Title Text:In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2945/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2945:_Broken_Model 问题模型 除了吃狐狸，兔子也可以吃草，并且草也吃狐狸。我们的方程式描绘了狐狸地狱的轮廓。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2945 这幅漫画展示了莱恩哈特小姐在解释一种捕食者-猎物关系的数学模型。该模型交换了术语，显示有400只兔子正在捕食20只狐狸。老师意识到… Read more
Title Text:The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2944/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2944:_Magnet_Fishing 磁铁钓鱼 10名参赛者并列，因此无人获得大奖——一根稀有的单极钓竿。 注1：tie 既指钓鱼平局又指鱼线缠绕在一起 。 注2：理论物理学中，磁单极子是假设的仅带有N极或S极单一磁极的磁性物质。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2944 磁钓是使用磁铁在水体中寻找铁磁物体的行为。它可以用来找回特定丢失的物品，帮助清… Read more
Title Text:I’m an H鈦?denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for ‘pretend’. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2943/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2943:_Unsolved_Chemistry_Problems 未解决的化学难题 我是一个否认氢离子的人，我拒绝将松散的质子视为真正的氢元素，所以我个人认为它代表“假装（pretend）”。 注：pH，亦称pH值、氢离子浓度指数、酸碱度是溶液中氢离子活度的一种标度，也是衡量溶液酸碱程度… Read more
Title Text:Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if…
