#xkcd No. 3060
Date: 2025-3-7
Title: Omniroll
Alt text: It seems wrong that Fruit by the Foot is only sold by weight or by number of rolls.
https://xkcd.com/3060/
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#xkcd No. 3059
Date: 2025-3-5
Title: Water Damage
Alt text: Your homeowner's insurance might cover it, but be sure to check the subductible.
https://xkcd.com/3059/
#xkcd No. 3049
Date: 2025-2-10
Title: Incoming Asteroid
Alt text: The bottom ones are also potentially bad news for any other planets in our solar system that have been counting on Earth having a stable orbit.
https://xkcd.com/3049/
#xkcd No. 3080
Date: 2025-4-23
Title: Tennis Balls
Alt text: After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down.
https://xkcd.com/3080/
#xkcd No. 3070
Date: 2025-3-31
Title: Orogeny
Alt text: Most properties can only boast INDOOR heated floors.
https://xkcd.com/3070/
#xkcd No. 3050
Date: 2025-2-12
Title: Atom
Alt text: What's weirder is that muons turned out to be INCREDIBLY cute.
https://xkcd.com/3050/
#xkcd No. 3061
Date: 2025-3-10
Title: Water Balloons
Alt text: Update: The physics department has recruited an astronomer who studies meteor fireballs.
https://xkcd.com/3061/
#xkcd No. 3062
Date: 2025-3-12
Title: Off By One
Alt text: It does come at the small cost of a LOT more off-by-40-or-50 errors.
https://xkcd.com/3062/
#xkcd No. 3063
Date: 2025-3-14
Title: Planet Definitions
Alt text: Under the 'has cleared its orbital neighborhood' and 'fuses hydrogen into helium' definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.
https://xkcd.com/3063/
#xkcd No. 3065
Date: 2025-3-19
Title: Square Units
Alt text: The biggest I've seen in a published source in the wild is an 80-fold error in a reported distance, which I think came from a series of at least three unit conversions and area/length misinterpretations.
https://xkcd.com/3065/
#xkcd No. 3051
Date: 2025-2-14
Title: Hardwood
Alt text: They may technically have been softwoods at some point, but they definitely aren't now.
https://xkcd.com/3051/
#xkcd No. 3091
Date: 2025-5-19
Title: Renormalization
Alt text: Applying renormalization to bullies successfully transformed Pete & Pete's Endless Mike into Finite Mike.
https://xkcd.com/3091/
#xkcd No. 3064
Date: 2025-3-17
Title: Lungfish
Alt text: I know having so many base pairs makes rebasing complicated, but you're in Bilateria, so shouldn't you at LEAST be better at using git head?
https://xkcd.com/3064/
#xkcd No. 3068
Date: 2025-3-26
Title: Rock Identification
Alt text: 'Is it worth anything?' 'I dunno, is the answer to that question worth another $5?'
https://xkcd.com/3068/
#xkcd No. 3052
Date: 2025-2-17
Title: Archive Request
Alt text: They just want researchers in the enclosure to feel enriched and stimulated. ('The Enclosure' is what archivists call the shadowy world outside their archives in which so many people are trapped.)
https://xkcd.com/3052/
#xkcd No. 3069
Date: 2025-3-28
Title: Terror Bird
Alt text: There has long been debate about Big Bird's species, with some experts claiming he was a canary, but recent genetic analysis places him firmly in Cariamiformes.
https://xkcd.com/3069/
#xkcd No. 3081
Date: 2025-4-25
Title: PhD Timeline
Alt text: Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.
https://xkcd.com/3081/
#xkcd No. 3094
Date: 2025-5-26
Title: Mass Spec
Alt text: Patients at least found it to be an improvement over Millikan's incredibly messy and unpleasant oil drop suspension procedure.
https://xkcd.com/3094/
#xkcd No. 3082
Date: 2025-4-28
Title: Chess Position
Alt text: It's important to learn the moves that take you into the vortex, but it's best not to study vortex itself too closely. Even grandmasters who have built up a tolerance lose the ability to play for a few hours after studying it.
https://xkcd.com/3082/
#xkcd No. 3074
Date: 2025-4-9
Title: Push Notifications
Alt text: NOTIFICATION: Now dismissing a head of the Notification Hydra… NOTIFICATION: Success! You have dismissed a head of the Notification Hydra!
https://xkcd.com/3074/
(This comic contains interactive elements, best viewed on xkcd. )
#xkcd No. 3102
Date: 2025-6-13
Title: Reading a Big Number
Alt text: [desperately] Maybe this is from some country where they use commas as decimal points, and also as digit separators after the decimal, and also use random other characters for decoration???
https://xkcd.com/3102/
#xkcd No. 3083
Date: 2025-4-30
Title: Jupiter Core
Alt text: Juno mission data suggests that Jupiter actually contains Matryoshka doll-style nested copies of every other planet in the Solar System.
https://xkcd.com/3083/
#xkcd No. 3090
Date: 2025-5-16
Title: Sail Physics
Alt text: Turning in other directions can be accomplished by using a magnetized centerboard and ocean currents, since a current flowing through a magnetic field induces a Laplace force.
https://xkcd.com/3090/
#xkcd No. 3084
Date: 2025-5-2
Title: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object
Alt text: Unstoppable force-carrying particles can't interact with immovable matter by definition.
https://xkcd.com/3084/
#xkcd No. 3085
Date: 2025-5-5
Title: About 20 Pounds
Alt text: In addition to gravity, burritos interact through the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces, which is believed to be a major contributor to their popularity.
https://xkcd.com/3085/