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Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe7/7/2023 Of course, explaining jokes is a task fraught with danger, but here goes. Part of the point is that you learn a little. If that all seems a bit challenging, there is even an “ Explain XKCD” site, which walks you through the science, technology or general knowledge needed to “get” each of Munroe’s jokes. There are comic strips with mathematical symbols, strips containing programming code, strips where you really need to know what a “clockwise polar plot” is to understand the joke. It’s delightful, good-humoured and never talks down to its readers the opposite, if anything. (The name, incidentally, is simply a set of letters that don’t appear in any English words in that order, so are easy to Google.) Drawn in a simple, elegant and clean style, it tells jokes for people who know something about science and maths. XKCD, the “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language” written for the past 10 years by Randall Munroe, is a geek phenomenon.
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