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xkcd #3215: Solar Warning

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This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3215/

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xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3214/

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xkcd #3213: Dental Formulas

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I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3213/

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xkcd #3212: Little Red Dots

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After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3212/

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xkcd #3211: Amperage (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3211: Amperage

Title text:

Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3211/

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xkcd #3210: Eliminating the Impossible

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'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3210/

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xkcd #3209: Plums (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3209: Plums

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My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3209/

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xkcd #3208: SNEWS (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3208: SNEWS

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People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3208/

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xkcd #3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

Title text:

'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3207/

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xkcd #3206: Installation

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Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3206/

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xkcd #3205: Carbon Dating

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This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3205/

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xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3204/

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xkcd #3203: Binary Star

Title text:

The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3203/

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xkcd #3202: Groundhog Day Meaning

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Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3202/

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xkcd #3201: Proof Without Content

Title text:

There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3201/

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xkcd #3200: Chemical Formula

Title text:

Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3200/

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xkcd #3199: Early Arthropods

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'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3199/

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xkcd #3198: Double-Pronged Extension Cord

Title text:

'Oh, and can I borrow 50 sacks of loose flour, a pile of lithium-ion batteries, a bucket of bleach, and a bucket of vinega--' 'NO!!!!!!'

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3198/

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