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210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...?
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Impossible Answer Question
There's something about the style of XKCD where, uh, you know, you put your fingers on things that are pretty familiar to a certain segment of people. There's a reason why people say there's an XKCD for everything and a lot of scientists and engineers have XKCDs on their doors. The impossible answer question is, how do you distill these little bits of truth down to a comic? "I'm going to try to find something relatable or I wonder if this is a universal experience," he says.
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