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| Null Hypothesis Hell, my eighth grade science class managed to conclusively reject it just based on a classroom experiment. It's pretty sad to hear about million-dollar research teams who can't even manage that. http://www.xkcd.com/892/ |
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| 65 Years The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision. http://www.xkcd.com/893/ |
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| Progeny I tell my children 'it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' I'm trying to take the edge off their competitive drive to ensure that I can always beat them. http://www.xkcd.com/894/ |
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| Teaching Physics Space-time is like some simple and familiar system which is both intuitively understandable and precisely analogous, and if I were Richard Feynman I'd be able to come up with it. http://www.xkcd.com/895/ |
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| Marie Curie Although not permanently. http://www.xkcd.com/896/ |
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| Elevator Inspection Even governmental elevator inspectors get bored halfway through asking where the building office is. http://www.xkcd.com/897/ |
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| Chain of Command Themistocles said his infant son ruled all Greece -- "Athens rules all Greece; I control Athens; my wife controls me; and my infant son controls her." Thus, nowadays the world is controlled by whoever buys advertising time on Dora the Explorer. http://www.xkcd.com/898/ |
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| Number Line The Wikipedia page "List of Numbers" opens with "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it." http://www.xkcd.com/899/ |
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| Religions But to us there is but one God, plus or minus one. --1 Corinthians 8:6±2. http://www.xkcd.com/900/ |
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| Temperature And the baby has a fever. http://www.xkcd.com/901/ |
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