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Title Text:Let me just scroll down and check behind that rock. Annnnd… nope, page copyright year starts with ’19’. Oh God, is this a WEBRING?
Title Text:Let me just scroll down and check behind that rock. Annnnd… nope, page copyright year starts with ’19’. Oh God, is this a WEBRING?
Title Text:I sympathize with the TPP protagonist because I, too, have progressed through a surprising number of stages of life despite spending entire days stuck against simple obstacles.
Title Text:Sure, taking a few seconds to be respectful toward someone about something they care about doesn’t sound hard. But if you talk to hundreds of people every day and they all start expecting that same consideration, it could potentially…
原作:http://what-if.xkcd.com/84 译者:猪的米 What if 系列:https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问: 人类有史以来生产的油漆全部加起来够把整个地球大陆表面都涂一遍吗? —— Josh(博尔顿,麻省) 回答: 这个问题回答起来很轻松啊。去查一下全世界油漆业的规模,然后往前倒推估算一下有史以来一共生产了多少油漆就好了。不过对于用油漆刷地的方式还是需要讨论一下的,提个醒:当我们刷到撒哈拉大沙漠的时候,我建议不要用刷子去刷。 但等等,我们为何不换一种方法来思考这个问题呢?在其中一种方法中——这个方法通常叫做“费米推论法“——重点在于你所猜测的答案至少在数量级上不能出错。在费米推论法中,你可以把所有的猜想答案… Read more
Title Text:This comic shows estimated average frequency. I wanted to include the pitch drop experiment, but it turns out the gif format has some issues with decade-long loops.
Title Text:Tonight’s top story: Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, died in his home this morning at the age of [unintelligible rune]. Due to the large number of sharks inhabiting his former kingdom, no body could be recovered.
Title Text:At first I was making fun of them, but joke’s on me–the deer is surprisingly ergonomic, except for the kicks.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1329/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1329:_Standing 站立 我本來是要笑他們,結果被笑的是我。鹿其實還滿人體工學的,除了會踢人以外。 https://xkcd.tw/1329 常设办公桌是现代科技公司的当前时尚。据称比整天坐着更符合人体工程学和舒适,它们可以与跑步机或固定自行车结合使用,以便在工作时进行锻炼。 Cueball告诉梅根,站立的办公桌不如他的解… Read more
原作:http://what-if.xkcd.com/83 译者:猪的米 What if 系列:https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问: 如果将银河系中各颗恒星按大小比例缩小成沙粒,那么这些沙粒堆成的沙滩会是什么样的? —— Jeff Wartes 回答: 玩沙子可有意思了。[来源请求] “这世上的所有沙子有天空中的恒星多吗?”这个问题已经烂大街了,许多人也都已经回答过这个问题。要点在于在可见宇宙中恒星的数量极有可能比地球上所有沙滩上的沙子要多。 当人们计算这些东西的时候,他们通常会挖掘关于恒星数量的很不错的一些数据,然后捣鼓一番沙粒的大小,最后得出世界上所有沙粒的数量。[1]我们今天就不讨论这个话题了,但为了回答Jeff的问题,我们确实… Read more
Title Text:We’re firing you, but the online headline-writing division wants to hire you.