Excerpt from “What If?” by Randall Munroe to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on Sept. 2, 2014. Copyright 2014 by xkcd Inc. Used by permission of the ...

In 2005, Randall Munroe – then a physics student at university in Virginia – started scanning the doodles he’d been scribbling in lectures, drawing square boxes around them and uploading them to a ...

As if we didn't have enough random sites cluttering our bookmark bars, I submit another one for your reading intrigue. Randall Munroe has used simple stick figures to create one of the wittiest comic ...

For more than a decade, Randall Munroe’s web comic xkcd came with a disclaimer attached: Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor ...

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems is the latest book from Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind the popular Internet comic xkcd. How To explores complicated solutions to ...

IT’S DIFFICULT ENOUGH to find the humor in science, math and technology, but Randall Munroe—the 31-year-old creator of the wildly popular Web comic “xkcd”—manages to do so...using stick figures. Quite ...

XKCD’s Randall Munroe is turning What If? – his fantastic series of “serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions” –into a book, to be published this September by Houghton Mifflin.

Last night, xkcd creator Randall Munroe celebrated the release of his first book by answering fan questions about everything from writing about his sex life to explaining his fame to non-geeks to how ...

In his comic “Up Goer Five,” Randall Munroe labels a blueprint of NASA’s Saturn V Rocket using only the 1,000 most common English words. Today, Munroe announced he’s giving the Up-Goer-Five treatment ...

A vast majority of the world's software runs on open-source code. Can it be secured? Fans of physics, chemistry, math, and astronomy will love these educational toys and kits. While waiting for your ...

Some of the xkcd comics aren’t just funny and interesting; they’re very moving. They deal with deep themes like time and death. Do you think of xkcd as art? Randall Munroe Randall Munroe for TIME You ...