#xkcd No. 2880
Date: 2024-1-12
Title: Sheet Bend
Alt text: A left-handed sheet bend creates a much weaker connection, especially under moderate loads.
https://xkcd.com/2880/
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#xkcd No. 2881
Date: 2024-1-15
Title: Bug Thread
Alt text: After some account issues, we've added 6 new people from the beach house rental website support forum.
https://xkcd.com/2881/
#xkcd No. 2882
Date: 2024-1-17
Title: Net Rotations
Alt text: For decades I've been working off the accumulated rotation from one long afternoon on a merry-go-round when I was eight.
https://xkcd.com/2882/
#xkcd No. 2883
Date: 2024-1-19
Title: Astronaut Guests
Alt text: They didn't bring us a gift, but considering the kinetic energy of a bottle of wine at orbital speed, that's probably for the best.
https://xkcd.com/2883/
#xkcd No. 2884
Date: 2024-1-22
Title: Log Alignment
Alt text: A video can have a log scale that's misaligned with both the time AND space axes.
https://xkcd.com/2884/
#xkcd No. 2885
Date: 2024-1-24
Title: Spelling
Alt text: Any time I misspell a word it's just because I have too much integrity to copy answers from the dictionary.
https://xkcd.com/2885/
#xkcd No. 2886
Date: 2024-1-26
Title: Fast Radio Bursts
Alt text: Dr. Petroff has also shown that the Higgs boson signal was actually sparks from someone microwaving grapes, the EHT black hole photo was a frozen bagel someone left in too long, and the LIGO detection was just someone slamming the microwave door too hard.
https://xkcd.com/2886/
#xkcd No. 2887
Date: 2024-1-29
Title: Minnesota
Alt text: In addition to 'squishy', after reviewing my submitted intraplate ground motion data, the National Geodetic Survey has politely asked me to stop using the word 'supple' so often when describing Midwestern states.
https://xkcd.com/2887/
#xkcd No. 2888
Date: 2024-1-31
Title: US Survey Foot
Alt text: Subway refuses to answer my questions about whether it's an International Footlong or a US Survey Footlong. A milligram of sandwich is at stake!
https://xkcd.com/2888/
#xkcd No. 2889
Date: 2024-2-2
Title: Greenhouse Effect
Alt text: Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he'd "wasted over a full year" doing tedious calculations by hand about "so trifling a matter" as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997).
https://xkcd.com/2889/
#xkcd No. 2890
Date: 2024-2-5
Title: Relationship Advice
Alt text: Good to be a little wary of advice that sounds too much like a self pep talk.
https://xkcd.com/2890/
#xkcd No. 2891
Date: 2024-2-7
Title: Log Cabin
Alt text: I'm sure the building inspectors will approve my design once they finally manage to escape.
https://xkcd.com/2891/
#xkcd No. 2892
Date: 2024-2-9
Title: Banana Prices
Alt text: It's a linear extrapolation, Michael. How big could the error be? 10%?
https://xkcd.com/2892/
#xkcd No. 2894
Date: 2024-2-14
Title: Research Account
Alt text: Focus of your research: EXTREME PETTINESS AND UNWILLINGNESS TO LET ANYTHING GO
https://xkcd.com/2894/
#xkcd No. 2893
Date: 2024-2-12
Title: Sphere Tastiness
Alt text: Baseballs do present a challenge to this theory, but I'm convinced we just haven't found the right seasoning.
https://xkcd.com/2893/
#xkcd No. 2895
Date: 2024-2-16
Title: Treasure Chests
Alt text: [earlier] "Your vintage-style handmade chest business is struggling. But I have a plan."
https://xkcd.com/2895/
#xkcd No. 2896
Date: 2024-2-19
Title: Crossword Constructors
Alt text: Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.
https://xkcd.com/2896/
#xkcd No. 2899
Date: 2024-2-26
Title: Goodhart's Law
Alt text: [later] I'm pleased to report we're now identifying and replacing hundreds of outdated metrics per hour.
https://xkcd.com/2899/
#xkcd No. 2898
Date: 2024-2-23
Title: Orbital Argument
Alt text: "Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"
https://xkcd.com/2898/
#xkcd No. 2897
Date: 2024-2-21
Title: Light Leap Years
Alt text: When Pope Gregory XIII briefly shortened the light-year in 1582, it led to navigational chaos and the loss of several Papal starships.
https://xkcd.com/2897/
#xkcd No. 2900
Date: 2024-2-28
Title: Call My Cell
Alt text: 'Hey, can you call my cell?' '...I'm trying, but it says this number is blocked?' 'Ok, thanks, just checking.'
https://xkcd.com/2900/
#xkcd No. 2901
Date: 2024-3-1
Title: Geographic Qualifiers
Alt text: 'Thank you for the loveliest evening I've ever had...' [normal] '...east of the Mississippi.' [instant intrigue!]
https://xkcd.com/2901/
#xkcd No. 2902
Date: 2024-3-4
Title: Ice Core
Alt text: If you find an ash deposition layer from a year in which an eruption destroyed an island that had Camellia sinensis growing on it, you can make a Gone Island Ice_τ.
https://xkcd.com/2902/
#xkcd No. 2903
Date: 2024-3-6
Title: Earth/Venus Venn Diagram
Alt text: Actually, the fact that Mars is still orbiting safely over here means that it was technically an *Euler* apocalypse, not a Venn one.
https://xkcd.com/2903/