"What if you ignored all the rules of car racing and had a contest which was simply to get a human being around a track 200 times as fast as possible? What strategy would win?" Randall Munroe, former ...

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A capacity crowd of students gathered for a talk titled “High Concept, Low Art: Cartoonists Larry Gonick and Randall Munroe in Conversation about Life, the Universe and Nothing” on Monday night in ...

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On Wednesday, XKCD creator Randall Munroe announced that he's written a book. Within 24 hours, the book — scheduled for a September release — was a bestseller on Amazon. So, as of now, he's only two ...

So far, the fastest anyone has run is about 27 1/2 mph, a speed reached (briefly) by sprinter Usain Bolt just after the midpoint of his world-record 100-meter dash in ...

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