Title Text:Thank you to Katie Mack for teaching me about this effect, and to Janelle Shane for describing redshifts as ‘like galaxies sinking into a pool of dilute blood,’ which is how I’ll see them from now on. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2622/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2622:_Angular_Diameter_Turnaround…
Title Text:Oh sure, I know Keira Knightly, from the first movie in that series by The Land Before Time producer. You know, the franchise with the guy from Jurassic Park and Ghostwriter, and script work by Billie Lourd’s mom? Origin:https://xkcd.com/2621/…
Title Text:Donate now to help us find a cure for causality. No one should have to suffer through events because of other events. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2620/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2620:_Health_Data 健康数据 现在就捐款吧，帮助我们寻找因果关系的疗法。没有人必须因为一些事件而遭受别的事件。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2620 Cueball在Ponytail 医生那里办公室收到考试或测试结果，但她的陈述令人沮丧地笼统，完全没有用。她说他的“数字”揭示了许多“测量”和“变量… Read more
Title Text:A medicine that makes you put two dots over your letters more often is a di盲retic. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2619/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2619:_Cr%C3%AApe 带尖儿的薄“煎”饼 有种药用过后会让你在字母上多放两点，那就是利尿剂。 注释： 最后一句的diäretic玩的是diuretic利尿剂的双关，作者想说diäretic的“药效”就是在字母上“多”放两点。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2619 Cueball制作了可丽饼，这是一种薄煎饼，以其在法国美食中的传奇地位而闻名，他自豪地宣布了这一点… Read more
Title Text:We carefully sampled the general population and found that most people are familiar with acquiescence bias. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2618/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2618:_Selection_Bias 选择性偏差 我们谨慎地对大众进行了抽样，并且发现大多数人都了解默许偏差这一概念。 注释：选择性偏差是指人们常常根据自己对特定事件的代表性观点，来估计某些事件发生的概率。这样人们可能错误地相信了“小数定律”，将一系列的负相关归因于一个确定的和独立分布的随机过程，从而出现偏差。 http://xkcd.in/comic?… Read more
Title Text:OpenStreetMap was always pretty good but is also now *really* good? And Apple Maps’s new zoomed-in design in certain cities like NYC and London is just gorgeous. It’s cool how there are all these good maps now! Origin:https://xkcd.com/2617/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2617:_Maps…
Title Text:Hey! No running in the back-arc basin! Origin:https://xkcd.com/2616/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2616:_Deep_End 泳池深水区 嘿！不允许在弧后盆地奔跑！ http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2616 水池和海洋一样，都含有水。这部漫画为前者制作了一个示意图，源自关于后者的科学。在地球上，地表由四处移动的构造板块组成。在这部漫画中，兰德尔将游泳池等同于板块构造，以解释在所述游泳池中形成的末端有多深。实际上，游泳池不是由板块构造形成的（至少，不是由人类制造的；我们不能确定其他的）。 游泳池是水池，通常用于游泳。其中大多数都有一个深端… Read more
Title Text:’We’re shocked by the Notre Dame fire. Click for our tribute to–‘ [okay] ‘Now that we’re all staying at home these past few weeks thanks to this new coronavirus, we–‘ [okay] Origin:https://xkcd.com/2615/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2615:_Welcome_Back 欢迎回来 “我们对巴黎圣母院的火灾感到震惊。点击查看我们对——” [好的] “现在受这个新型冠状病毒影响，过去几周我们都呆在… Read more
Title Text:It’s like sigma summation notation, except instead of summing the argument over all values of i, you 2 the argument over all values of 2. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2614/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2614:_2 2 类比西格玛求和，只不过不是对i的所有值求和，而是对2的所有值进行2。 注释：∑ 是一个求和符号，英语名称：sigma，汉语名称：西格玛（大写Σ，小写σ） http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2614 这展示了数字 2 在各种科学领域中的不同排版方式。虽然这些排版… Read more
Title Text:The projection’s north pole is in a small lake on the island of Mah茅 in the Seychelles, which is off the top of the map and larger than the rest of the Earth’s land area combined. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2613/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2613:_Bad_Map_Projection:_Madagascator 糟糕的投影地图：马达加斯加托…
