xkcd #3140: Biology Department

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Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3140/

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xkcd #3139: Chess Variant

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The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3139/

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xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

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A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3138/

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xkcd #3137: Cursed Number

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Another group of mathematicians is working to put an upper bound on the number, although everyone keeps begging them to stop.

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xkcd #3136: Pull

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Be careful fighting gravity. If you win, it's a long way down.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3136/

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xkcd #3135: Sea Level

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They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

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xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse

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Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3134/

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xkcd #3133: Dual Roomba

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I tried uploading it to a household appliance porn site I found, but apparently their content is limited to only fans.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3133/

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xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity

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Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3132/

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xkcd #3131: Cesium

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Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3131/

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xkcd #3130: Predicament

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I dropped my phone while trying to search, and I tried to unlock it from up here, so can you also search for screen repair places?

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3130/

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xkcd #3129: Archaeology Research

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The academic archaeology establishment is suppressing my breakthroughs because of the disruption it would bring to their prepared-core flake-based toolmaking industry.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3129/

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xkcd #3128: Thread Meeting

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Hey, so did you ever finish your video series about Cassie and the caterpillar morph? I loved the first three, but never ... no, sorry, I get it, this isn't the place. Sorry! Sorry.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3128/

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xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From

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Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3127/

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xkcd #3126: Disclaimer

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You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3126/

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xkcd #3125: Snake-in-the-Box Problem

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Chemistry grad students have been spotted trying to lure campus squirrels into laundry hampers in the hope that it sparks inspiration.

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xkcd #3124: Grounded

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We should have you at the gate in just under two hours--two and a half if we get pulled over.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3124/

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xkcd #3123: Canon

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Achilles was a mighty warrior, but his Achilles' heel was his heel.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3123/

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xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres

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During the most recent glacial maximum, it's believed that land bridges extended from the surfaces and connected several of the spheres together.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3122/

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