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, ...

Randall Munroe, the creator of the popular Internet comic xkcd, which tackles science, math, language, and other lofty subjects with humor and stick figure drawings, will soon have his work featured ...

Join a nuclear engineer as they react to one of XKCD's most fascinating thought experiments. Explore the science, physics, and real-world reasoning behind the question of what would happen if the ...

Fans of webcomic XKCD will be well aware how lucidly its creator, former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe, can explain complicated ideas using just stick figures and dialogue. Well now Munroe’s skills ...

XKCD’s Randall Munroe is turning What If? – his fantastic series of “serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions” –into a book, to be published this September by Houghton Mifflin.

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 ...