{"id":159,"date":"2009-09-16T14:03:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/09\/16\/xkcd\/"},"modified":"2009-09-16T14:03:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:03:03","slug":"xkcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/09\/16\/xkcd\/","title":{"rendered":"xkcd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve linked to the webcomic <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">xkcd.com<\/a> in passing <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/03\/10\/correlation-is-not-causation\/\">before<\/a>, but it&#8217;s so full of science-geeky awesomeness that I thought I&#8217;d advertise it more explicitly, in case there&#8217;s anyone out there who would like it but doesn&#8217;t know about it.\u00a0 Here are a couple of examples; if you like them, go there and waste an hour or two clicking &#8220;Random.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and be sure to mouse over each comic.\u00a0 There&#8217;s some extra text for each one, and often it&#8217;s the best part.\u00a0 (The ones embedded in this post don&#8217;t have the extra bits; go to the web site to see them.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/636\/\" title=\"brontosaurus.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2009\/09\/brontosaurus.png\" alt=\"brontosaurus.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/154\/\" title=\"beliefs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2009\/09\/beliefs.jpg\" alt=\"beliefs.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the geekiest for last:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/21\/\" title=\"kepler.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2009\/09\/kepler.jpg\" alt=\"kepler.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve linked to the webcomic xkcd.com in passing before, but it&#8217;s so full of science-geeky awesomeness that I thought I&#8217;d advertise it more explicitly, in case there&#8217;s anyone out there who would like it but doesn&#8217;t know about it.\u00a0 Here are a couple of examples; if you like them, go there and waste an hour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/09\/16\/xkcd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">xkcd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}