xkcd's infographic show the "size of the U.S.'s pipelines if each fluid produced or consumed in the U.S. had to be carried by a single pipe."
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Mar 1, 2016
Size of pipelines needed to carry liquids consumed in the U.S.
"What If?" by Randall "xkcd" Munroe is available on Kindle Unlimited
I’m a paying subscriber to Amazon Kindle Unlimited program. For $10 a month I can read as many books as I want from a huge list of excellent books. One that I just got is Randall Monroe’s What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. The book answers questions like “If every person on […]
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Randall "XKCD" Munroe has a New York Times column where he answers weird science questions
Randall Munroe's "Good Question" column in the New York Times is in the vein of his How To and What If books, in which he answers weird science questions with equally weird thoroughness.
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HOW TO: XKCD's Randall Munroe finds the humor in taking silly questions very, very seriously
One of my favorite genres of book is the popular engineering book, a rare breed that combines physics and engineering to establish the full range of ways to address a problem (for example, if you want to talk about whether solar can ever replace fossil fuels, it's useful to know how many photons penetrate the […]
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Too few are checking their car insurance rates. This site can help you save serious money.
When you were 10 and your mom demanded you finish your vegetables or go to your room, you were mad. Even as kids, we hated it when we were ordered to do something. Car insurance is a federal mandate, yet that’s only one of the reasons why most Americans would rather do just about anything […]
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Get a factory-refurbished iPad Pro for under $350
We all know the drill. As the overlords of the smartphone and tablet markets, the braintrust at Apple very seldom hold sales on their signature devices. So rather than spending almost $1,000 on a brand-new iPad Pro, the folks in Cupertino are instead giving you the opportunity to score one for about a third of […]
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Learn how to podcast like a boss from these experts
Entrepreneurs looking for new avenues to reach customers may not have considered one of the fastest-growing content mediums today: podcasting. And we don’t mean just dropping an advertisement for your product or service in the middle of a popular show. Right now, there are about 850,000 active podcasts reaching 165 million Americans. Those listeners are […]
