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      Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

      comics.movim.eu / XKCD • 13 February 2026

    'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.
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      Installation

      comics.movim.eu / XKCD • 11 February 2026

    Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?
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      Carbon Dating

      comics.movim.eu / XKCD • 9 February 2026

    This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.
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      Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

      comics.movim.eu / XKCD • 6 February 2026

    Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.
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      Groundhog Day Meaning

      comics.movim.eu / XKCD • 2 February 2026

    Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.
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      Chemical Formula

      comics.movim.eu / XKCD • 28 January 2026

    Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.