In 2005, Randall Munroe – then a physics student at university in Virginia – started scanning the doodles he’d been scribbling in lectures, drawing square boxes around them and uploading them to a ...

I believe in charts. A good chart can stick an important fact into your mind and keep it there. And some of the best come from Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd. Now you can turn any chart into an xkcd ...

Randall Munroe’s xkcd comic tackles a range of popular science topics with an enlightening and humorous approach. XKCD via Wikicommons For those seeking to deny the realities of climate change, a ...

A surprising number of projects here are in some way influenced by the webcomic xkcd, but usually not as directly as this. Comic 350, “Network” is the tale of a very odd stickman who keeps multiple ...

[Randall Munroe] certainly understands the power of graphical representation of data. The humorous plots in his xkcd webcomic are one of the favorite parts for many readers. Their distinctive, ...

Some of the xkcd comics aren’t just funny and interesting; they’re very moving. They deal with deep themes like time and death. Do you think of xkcd as art? You can’t be an expert on absolutely ...

For more than a decade, Randall Munroe’s web comic xkcd came with a disclaimer attached: Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor ...

HOUSTON—I’d guess that the majority of Ars readers are familiar with xkcd, the stick-figure Web comic drawn by former NASA contractor and engineer (and now Hugo award winner) Randall Munroe. It’s rare ...

Last week, Austria-based Swarovski Optik introduced the AX Visio 10×32 binoculars, which the company says can identify over 9,000 species of birds and mammals using image recognition technology. The ...