Just to understand the concept of a trillion. 1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023. A billion minutes ago it was 114 CE. A trillion minutes ago it was 1,900,114 BCE

I like relating it to age. I actually celebrated the day I turned 1 billion seconds old. I was over 31 and a half years old. And since a trillion is a thousand billion, I would be around 31,700 years old when I turn 1 trillion seconds old (posthumously, of course).

good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong this story delights me every year

Panda Life 🐼

Another sometimes forgotten disadvantage to changing the clocks twice a year.

Happy Halloween !

As other people have noted, if you have local food banks, now would be an excellent time to donate cash to them, if you have the cash to spare. We will be upping our donations to food banks and hunger-related charities here in Ohio.

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨ youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

Ya gotta wonder about a guy that gets so worked up over this. But hey: it's the kind of "thinking" that has kept This is True going strong for more than 32 years now. Got your free subscription yet?

Choose your own (research) adventure. My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

A riddle for @theguardian.com books page. p.s. My new book 'Physics for Cats' is out this week in bookshops and online. Details at www.tomgauld.com

Picking up from our family’s favorite local sushi place today, I saw this on their television “aquarium”. It’s more than just a little reminiscent of Paul Kidbys’s Great A’Tuin painting. Seeing this made me unreasonably happy. Not just merely due to tasty sushi. #Discworld, #TerryPratchett , #GNU

This Week’s Honorary Unsubscribe goes to George Hardy, the last of his kind. The story in 3 minutes.

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

Looking forward to seeing — and hearing — John Scalzi for the first time, at Bookshop Santa Cruz!

GOP legislator: "A science fair? How dense do you think I am?!" Scientist: "Try dividing your mass by your volume."

This is, very seriously, one of Randall's best and most clever comics. There are more layers to this the more you look. I checked Explain xkcd to make sure I got them all. I hadn't.

Chess Zoo xkcd.com/3036