Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Nov 6, 2009, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. If powerful locomotive heads west at 80 mph at the same time that a speeding bullet is fired north ...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Nov 4, 2009, 12:22 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. It was an electrifying campaign season, and I'm glad it's over. And, of course, you know t...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Nov 2, 2009, 1:11 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Losing an electron makes you positive. Losing an election makes you negative. And, please, no Chemi...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Nov 1, 2009, 7:08 pm
Dateline: Stick-World! Rotundo roams the streets, tricking stickball playing youths to do his bidding. What foul deed has he in mind? Click on the link and follow the exciting story!
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 30, 2009, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. It's sweeping the population. And if there's an X-Bar-Bar-Bar, I don't want to know ab...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 29, 2009, 9:01 pm
I guess that I've been so caught up in other things that I didn't even notice that last week was the Second Birthday of this blog, counting from the publication of the first Co-Medians strip. ...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 28, 2009, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. If a math teacher is alone in a wood, and there is no one around to hear him, does he make a pun? ...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 26, 2009, 3:15 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. So long, Soupy. Soupy, so long. Now who am I going to send all those pictures of all the president...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 25, 2009, 11:08 am
Dateline: Stick-World! The damsel in distress has been rescued after a perilous plunge from the pinnacle ... ah, shoot, she fell from the ladder. Click on the link and follow the exciting story!
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 23, 2009, 1:00 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. With me, it's more a case of replacing the old battery entirely. I don't know about you, b...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 22, 2009, 9:41 am
So I had one of these moments yesterday when reviewing for a midterm, the kind where you realize that something obvious to you might not be obvious to them. There's a "teachbable moment" there, fo...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 22, 2009, 9:37 am
There was a spike in traffic the other day as someone (other than me) liked a comic enough to put it on StumbleUpon, reddit and digg. It's the first time something on reddit didn't get voted d...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 21, 2009, 6:31 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. I imagine this works with "Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey", too.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 19, 2009, 1:04 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. I do this every year. Usually several times. And I'll catch them every time.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 14, 2009, 5:54 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Banach and Tarski, a pair of docs. But the two Humpty story is kind of hollow.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 13, 2009, 5:06 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. You can calculate the time from start to fin.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 7, 2009, 3:15 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. And you just know a beat-down is gonna be bad when the blows are measured in scientific notation. ...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 5, 2009, 2:12 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. I'm still disappointed over New York 2012. So congratulations to Brazil, which is part of Sout...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 4, 2009, 11:58 am
Dateline: Stick-World! The Late Edition How Late? A week late! If you were here last week, so were we, but no one thought to spread the word. Spread it like strawberry jam on toast. Mmmmmmmm, toast ....
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 2, 2009, 3:24 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Just trying to be helpful, you know. Being thick-skinned is a plus.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Oct 1, 2009, 12:39 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Not appropriate? Show me the proof!
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 28, 2009, 10:59 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Relations in math can be a tricky topic. Many fail to get them right on the first couple of tries.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 26, 2009, 8:40 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Just try telling someone in the morning that your head hurts because you walked into a bar. Anothe...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 24, 2009, 7:08 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. In case you're wondering, it's 65. If you're not wondering, it's still 65. Sorry,...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 22, 2009, 12:25 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Nothing to add, really... Except, perhaps, "True Story." Sorry, this should've been posted ...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 20, 2009, 12:38 pm
Dateline: Stick-World! Who is smarter? The man with the super-brain or the man with the super-appetite? Who wins the battles of wits and will? Pick your sides, but be wary. Click on the link and fo...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 14, 2009, 1:08 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Insert pity comment
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 14, 2009, 1:08 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Insert pity comment
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 13, 2009, 11:14 am
Dateline: Stick-World! Cerebrum lives! Rotundo lives! Pretzel-stick-man ... You get the point. The next page is up and ready! Click on the link and follow the exciting story!
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 12, 2009, 11:51 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. If you think about it, it should be 24/7/52 or 24/365, but not 24/7/365. On the other hand, is it s...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 12, 2009, 11:43 am
If you read Spiked Math, you might have had the feeling of deja vu this past week. That's because Mike, the artist at Spiked Math, was inspired by the Circle in the Square comic, and create a resp...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 11, 2009, 12:52 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Sooner or later, we all have to face the unknown.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 10, 2009, 9:15 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. First day of the year, I become a human signpost.
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 7, 2009, 3:46 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Trust me, if you were a walking, talking alphanumeric character, you'd agree. And then you mig...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 6, 2009, 2:59 pm
Dateline: Stick-World! A new story is beginning, a new chapter in the lives of Our Hero and those around him who matter most. And the villains are back. Chilling! Brrrrrrr. Click on the link and fol...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 3, 2009, 9:59 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Which yields the age-old debate: is it smarter to try to fit a round peg in a square hole or a squa...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Sep 1, 2009, 3:00 pm
Okay, not everyone. And being critical isn't necessarily a bad thing. Besides, it means at the very least that I got noticed by someone. Looking at my statistics for the xwhy page for the past c...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 31, 2009, 7:41 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. And if you don't make it in thirty seconds or less, your afterlife is free. to be continued...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 30, 2009, 1:57 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Yeah, I know, too obscure. Read the annotations. In a nutshell (because I couldn't find a dece...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 28, 2009, 7:42 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Hey, those things have to start somewhere, don't they? to be continued...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 27, 2009, 1:24 pm
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Up next: Trigonometry Jones and the Necessary Exposition Now I remember why I don't try to tel...
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 26, 2009, 11:18 am
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Chris B. posted an article on (x, why?) - Aug 25, 2009, 8:13 am
(Click on the cartoon to see the entire image.) (C)Copyright 2009, C. Burke. All rights reserved. Located in Piazza Quarto. to be continued...
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