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Grading

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America-vectorized units

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AAA

SMBC, Zach Weinersmith, Oct. 3, 2025:

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Melvillian (non-)hyphenation

Frazz 9/10/2025 — Caulfield and Mrs. Olson discuss Melville's novel:

Continued in Frazz 9/11/2025:

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Language of Biology

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Idn't idn't really do it

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Canonical circles

Today's xkcd:


Mouseover title: "Achilles was a mighty warrior, but his Achilles' heel was his heel."

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Communicating across metaphorical differences

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Replication of failure to replicate

Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: "Maybe encouraging the publication of null results isn't enough–maybe we need a journal devoted to publishing results the study authors find personally annoying."

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Recursive summarization

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Unit utility

Today's xkcd:

The mouseover title: "'This HAZMAT container contains radioactive material with activity of one becquerel.' 'So, like, a single banana slice?'"

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Two-factor siege

Tuesday's Non Sequitur:

Modern security measures are definitely siege-like. But in my recent experience, gmail classifies returned security codes as spam about half the time — I'm not sure how to work that into the joke.

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Tukey's birthday

Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: "Numbers can be tricky. On the day of my 110th birthday, I'll be one day younger than John Tukey was on his."

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