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Randall Munroe
Randall Patrick Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006. In addition to publishing a book of the webcomic's strips, titled xkcd: Volume 0, he has written four books: What If?, Thing Explainer, How To, and What If? 2.
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science · American cartoonist and author (born 1984) · programmer · comics artist · writer · computer scientist · physicist · engineer · non-fiction writer · geohasher · comics writer · also Randall Munroe, Randall Patrick Munroe, Munroe
Born 17 October 1984 · Q285048
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2026· 11 entries
Security Boulevard: Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Types of Tornado Alert’
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Yahoo Sports: Today in Boston Celtics history: Will Bynum signs; Roy Rogers born; Munroe passes
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“Geology Building xkcd.com/3284/”
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“Size and Lifespan xkcd.com/3283/”
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“Trick Play xkcd.com/3282/”
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“Antiques Roadshow xkcd.com/3281/”
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“I really recommend the 2022 documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight,” which profiles the scientists working in relative obscurity to keep the Voyager spacecraft operating—many of them past retirement age, but unwilling to quit until the Voyagers do. It was very sweet and thought-provoking.”
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“Main Span xkcd.com/3279/”
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“Vera Rubin Observatory xkcd.com/3278/”
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“Weird and worrying questions Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/shorts/SLd4h...”
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2024· 1 entry
Gizmodo: Randall Munroe
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2023· 1 entry
Munroe created a YouTube channel called xkcd's What If
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2022· 1 entry
NPR: Randall Munroe's 'What If? 2' answers the absurd science questions you didn't know you had
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2019· 1 entry
gizmodo: The Most Extreme Way to Take a Selfie, According to xkcd Creator Randall Munroe
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2015· 1 entry
The New Yorker published "The Space Doctor's Big Idea", an article by Munroe explaining general relativity using only the 1,000 most common English words
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2014· 2 entries
Published a collection of some of the responses, as well as a few new ones and some rejected questions, in a book entitled What If
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Won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story for the xkcd strip "Time"
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2011· 1 entry
And to remedy what he described as "confusing" reporting on radiation levels in the media, Munroe created a radiation chart of comparative radiation exposure levels
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2008· 1 entry
Munroe said, "I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights"
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2007· 1 entry
Published “Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls” in Nature — cited 7,940 times.
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1984· 1 entry
Born 1984-10-17.
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