XKCD has a web cartoon making the rounds that nicely summarizes 22,000 years of climate and human history. One important point: As the last ice age ended and temperatures heated up, humans did better ...

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If you're reading this blog, chances are you're probably quite familiar with the webcomic xkcd created by Randall Munroe. It's everything a geek could dream of in a web comic: It's funny, it's smart, ...

The webcomic XKCD is pure, distilled geekiness. Cartoonist Randall Munroe calls XKCD “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” It is all of that and more: science, computer programming, ...

“I’m waiting for the day when, if you tell someone ‘I’m from the internet’ instead of laughing they just ask, ‘Oh what part?’“ Zoom in for hidden gems like “Social Media Consultant Channel” and ...

The Internet is history's greatest repository of minutiae, and its greatest generator. And that information is proliferating, mostly in the form of facts, both grand and trivial. The Twittersphere is ...

For most people not directly involved in the study of science, anything scientific- or technology-related can be intriguing and intimidating. Almost prohibitively so. Even for those attempting to stay ...

Combine math, science, romance and crudely-drawn stick figures and you'll get something approximating XKCD, a webcomic that's celebrating its 10th anniversary today. Created by Randall Munroe (a ...

Review: Randall Munroe's third book gives hilariously edifying answers to questions like how to take a selfie, catch a drone, play the piano and win an election. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...