Title Text:If I developed a hue-shifting metamaterial, I would photobomb people’s Instagram pics with a sheet of material that precisely undid the filter they were using.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1351/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1351:_Metamaterials https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 超材料，人工制造的结构，通常由几种材料以微观棋盘图案制成，以允许奇异的光学特性（例如隐形斗篷）而闻名。这部漫画想象出超材料可以改变穿过它们的光线… Read more
Title Text:(six hours later) ARGH. How are these stupid microchips so durable?! All I want is to undo a massive industrial process with household tools!
Title Text:We watched DAYTIME TV. Do you realize how soul-crushing it was? I’d rather eat an iPad than go back to watching daytime TV.
Title Text:If data fails the Teacher’s t test, you can just force it to take the test again until it passes.
Title Text:They’d convince me to come out of retirement for one last job: biting into a giant lump of slightly soft wax a couple of times.
Title Text:Stanford sleep researcher William Dement said that after 50 years of studying sleep, the only really solid explanation he knows for why we do it is ‘because we get sleepy’.
Title Text:The most ridiculous offender of all is the sudoers man page, which for 15 years has started with a ‘quick guide’ to EBNF, a system for defining the grammar of a language. ‘Don’t despair’, it says, ‘the definitions below…
Title Text:’The light from those millions of stars you see is probably many thousands of years old’ is a rare example of laypeople substantially OVERestimating astronomical numbers.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1342/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1342:_Ancient_Stars 古代的星星 「那幾百萬顆星星發出的光芒可能已經有幾萬年了」是少數一般人會高估天文學數字的例子。 https://xkcd.tw/1342 Cueball通常观察到，天空中的许多可见恒… Read more
