Not to be confused with Randy Monroe or Rendall Munroe.
Randall Munroe
Munroe speaking at re:publica in 2016
Born
Randall Patrick Munroe (1984-10-17) October 17, 1984 (age 39) Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater
Christopher Newport University (BS)
Genre
Webcomics, popular science
Notable works
xkcd
What If?
Thing Explainer
How To
Signature
Website
www.xkcd.com
Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984)[1][2][3] is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006.[4] In addition to publishing a book of the webcomic's strips, titled xkcd: Volume 0, he has written four books: What If?, Thing Explainer, How To, and What If? 2.
^Chamberlin, Alan. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". JPL Solar System Dynamics. Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
^Ly, Chen (October 12, 2022). "Randall Munroe on answering the strangest scientific questions". New Scientist. Archived from the original on January 19, 2024.
^Cavna, Michael (September 12, 2022). "The world's funniest former NASA roboticist will take your questions". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
^Cohen, Noam (May 26, 2008). "This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2008.
Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. Munroe...
by American author RandallMunroe. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". Munroe states on the comic's...
created by RandallMunroe, in which the author attempts to explain various complex subjects using only the 1,000 most common English words. Munroe conceptualized...
nanotechnology — a partial retcon, in a sense, of Asimov's timeline. RandallMunroe has discussed the Three Laws in various instances, but possibly most...
film series by Walt Disney Productions How To (book), a 2019 book by RandallMunroe How To with John Wilson, a 2020 HBO comedy docuseries How 2, an educational...
William Munroe (pencil maker) (1778–1861), the first American pencil maker William R. Munroe (1886–1966), a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy Randall Munroe...
mailing list: original posting and follow up thread. FGR11 discussed. RandallMunroe, Radiation Dose Chart, xkcd, March 19, 2011. Accessed 26 December 2017...
C., where some participants held placards with "[citation needed]". RandallMunroe has frequently used "[citation needed]" tags for humorous commentary...
The Ballmer Peak is a humorous concept invented by RandallMunroe in the xkcd webcomic, claiming that a programmer who is appropriately intoxicated can...
Disenshittification and The Bezzle: Cory Doctorow in conversation with RandallMunroe | Berkman Klein Center". cyber.harvard.edu. 2024-04-24. Retrieved 2024-06-21...
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions RandallMunroe 2014-09-02 No The Education of Brother Thaddius and Other Tales of DemonWars...
of Wikipedians and Star Trek fans". During the dispute, cartoonist RandallMunroe wrote and drew a January 30, 2013, xkcd comic strip both honoring and...
later named after American cartoonist and former NASA roboticist RandallMunroe. Munroe orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.5 AU...
2015. "204: America". explain xkcd. May 23, 2022 [Comic published by RandallMunroe on January 1, 2007]. Archived from the original on November 25, 2023...
Saunders, Khaled Hosseini, Nick Hornby, Anne Lamott, Carlo Rovelli, RandallMunroe, Patricia Lockwood, Sarah Vowell, the Dalai Lama, Chang-rae Lee, Meg...
of the golden ratio in culture. Spurious golden spirals collected by RandallMunroe YouTube lecture on Zeno's mice problem and logarithmic spirals Portals:...
wings", and Ohanian doodled the first version. breadpig teamed up with RandallMunroe, the author of xkcd, to publish xkcd: volume 0, which contains selected...
if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by RandallMunroe. An example of a Fermi Problem relating to total gasoline consumed by...
waiting until their 30s before getting married. Some people, including RandallMunroe, have criticised the term 'bromance' as a superfluous term for friendship...
was the September 23, 2007 meetup of fans of xkcd with its creator, RandallMunroe, in a park in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. The name "ROFLCon" comes...
Munroe, Randall (n.d.). "Fire from Moonlight". What If?. Archived from the original on 6 August 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2020. xkcd–author Randall Munroe...
one metre and one foot: 1 m/ft = 1 m / (0.3048 m). As discovered by RandallMunroe, a cubic mile is close to 4 3 π {\displaystyle {\frac {4}{3}}\pi } cubic...
technetium with a half-life of six hours plated on foil. In What If?, RandallMunroe humorously explored the practicalities of building a periodic table...
Schmidt and Robert Zubrin, eds., Wiley, 1996, ISBN 978-0-471-13561-6 RandallMunroe (2013). "Interplanetary Cessna". Retrieved January 29, 2013. Stephen...
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