Just saw this on another thread, and I have to say “whaaaat?” I had no idea What If still existed at the New York Times. Why isn’t that obvious on Randall’s website? That makes me very sad, for some reason.
Yeah, it’s now called “Good Question”. It was running a little less often than monthly last year, but there hasn’t been a new one since December. Maybe he silently moved to another site. Paywalled link below.
Color me equally surprised to learn about the NYT thing. I had no idea.
When the first what-if book was coming out it was obvious he’d started slow-rolling the blog to monetize more of his work. That effect got bigger / worse as the second book was coming together. I took the slowing to a trickle and then stop after that as a sign a third book was in the works. Or that his SO’s cancer had returned or some other personal crisis was in progress. Turns out I was wrong.
FTR I bought both what-if books at full price to support the guy. As a content producer he surely deserves to make something off his labors.
As a lefty, I endorse this.
Note: A similar lesson in this one
P.S. It’s a shame explainxkcd.com is down…
Maybe they’ll have something in a nice microprocessor.
I really want phasers. Don’t we all?
Diet pill? Invisibility? Anti-gravity?
Sorta like this short story, except with benevolent aliens.
No suggestion of sliced bread?
I remember the “bag of pulp” machine
Yeah. 100%. Right down to the spare room off the living room. That one’s never been fully vaccinated, and probably never will be.
The problem with that bag-of-pulp juicer isn’t just that you can do without the juicer if you have the bag of pulp. It’s that, if you’re buying a bag of pulp that has no purpose other than being turned into juice, why aren’t you just buying juice?
Because it will damage the juicer if you pour juice into it.
Because the juicer is INTERNET-CONNECTED, with DRM-ed pulp. So it’s cool.
By the way, for anyone that thinks Randall Monroe isn’t a talented artist, look at “Megan” in that last panel. I’m looking at it, and I still can’t quite figure out how he did it with a featureless stick figure, but “Megan” is very clearly dubiously looking down at herself, arms and hands wide, as she re-evaluates her vaccination status.
Wednesday’s apparently didn’t get posted:
Where’s the “real” Bowling Green? As an Ohioan, I’m most familar with the Ohio one (site of one of the larger universities in the state system).
And my, but there are a lot of Houstons.
A simple way to research this kind of stuff is to just type “Bowling Green” into Wikipedia. Besides the one in Ohio, I see there’s one in Kentucky. But the one I’m familiar with is in New York City.