Educational Strips

Biology

• 433 - Square-cube law; giant animals.
• 662 - DNA structure; molecular bases.
• 949 - Creationism; evolution; scientific theories.
• 1000 - Four humours; bile.
• 1086 - DNA; environmental influence on DNA expression.
• 1180 - Trepanation.
• 1278 - Monkeys versus apes; paraphyletic classification; the nature of humour.
• 1334 - Reptiles; paraphyletic groups; birds as reptiles.
• 1469 - The Human Genome Project.
• 1621 - Vitamin D; rickets.
• 1677 - Grass; biogeography; simulating prehistory.

Chemistry

• 520 - Hydrogen combustion; German language; zeppelin safety.
• 983 - Pineapple; gelatin; the enzyme bromelain.
• 1136 - Monosodium glutamate; umami; flavour.
• 1821 - Dynamite; nitroglycerin; Alfred Nobel; Nobel prizes.
• 1842 - Gunpowder; sulphur; charcoal; saltpetre.

Culture

• 485 - Meta-humour.
• 793 - 1962 Baseball World Series; Peanuts.
• 1130 - Lent; lentils; lenses.
• 1144 - Game design; comic design.
• 1152 - ISO 9001.
• 1246 - Cockney.
• 1272 - A Theory of Fun for Game Design; art and creativity.
• 1339 - Justices of the Peace.
• 1402 - Minimalist art; absract art; what is art?
• 1428 - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Arthur Sullivan; Richard Storrs Willis.
• 1438 - Knitting; casting on; casting off.
• 1455 - Comic panel layout; Understanding Comics; panel transitions.
• 1467 - Photoshop image blending tutorial.
• 1539 - Chocolate brownies; chocolate crackles.
• 1609 - Atheism; morals.
• 1639 - Papal infallibility; Catholic doctrine.
• 1718 - Lampshade hanging.
• 1752 - Betraying the fans; finding enjoyment.
• 1754 - Ideas; creativity; daring to be stupid.
• 1973 - Pressed duck.
• 1982 - Whiskey and whiskey.
• 1992 - Mountain Dew.
• 2000 - Webcomics with 2000 or more strips.

Geology and Geography

• 643 - Alfred Wegener; continental drift; plate tectonics.
• 1946 - Geology; plate tectonics; paleontology.

History

• 466 - American history; Maine.
• 636 - US President; Oval Office; Allosaurus.
• 805 - Viaducts; aqueducts.
• 826 - Howard Carter; Tutankhamun.
• 869 - Ancient Rome; Vespasian; Colosseum.
• 916 - Saint Sophia Cathedral; Mariyinsky Palace.
• 1083 - 1930s European history; Stalin; communism; Animal Farm.
• 1155 - The Reichstag Fire.
• 1240 - Mercury poisoning; mad hatters.
• 1264 - Mercury poisoning; Minamata disease; learning history.
• 1397 - King George III of England; alleged madness thereof.
• 1441 - Coup d'état; political history of Nepal.
• 1475 - The Lateran Treaty; Via della Conciliazione; Vatican history.
• 1515 - Sir Edmund Hillary.
• 1534 - Roman architecture; Nazi architecture; theory of ruin value.
• 1559 - Snow leopards; troy weight; Trojan War.
• 1566 - The Sistine Chapel.
• 1652 - The Rubicon; alea iacta est; Rubik's cube.

Language

• 559 - Flammable versus inflammable; English etymology.
• 618 - English as a living language; good new English; bad new English; Shakespeare.
• 820 - Etymology of "xenomorph".
• 989 - Latin conjugation and place names.
• 1094 - Latin translation.
• 1349 - Irony; English usage; descriptivism versus prescriptivism; organic food.
• 1351 - Accented characters in English; loan words.
• 1391 - Etymology of "poppet".
• 1470 - Spanish language; pieces of eight; computer bits; parity.
• 1494 - Naval jargon; how to sail a square-rigged vessel out of port.
• 1537 - Spanish language; translation difficulties.
• 1731 - Etymology of "titbit"; bowdlerisation of language.
• 1740 - English semantics; women's prerogative; physiological sex differences and influence on social custom.
• 1767 - Biscuits; British English; American English; Latin; Italian; German; interconnectedness of languages.
• 1769 - Gender-neutral pronouns; prescriptive grammar; singular "they".
• 1902 - Shovels versus spades; English usage.
• 1964 - "Man" versus "elf" and other fantasy races.

Literature

• 537 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre; The Merchant of Venice.
• 734 - Twelfth Night.
• 1192 - Lorem ipsum.
• 1481 - Petards; being hoist thereon; Hamlet.
• 1490 - The Last Supper; conspiracy theories; The Da Vinci Code.
• 1497 - Balrogs; the physical appearance thereof.
• 1503 - Technobabble.
• 1659 - Moby-Dick; self-destructive vengeance; Khan Noonien Singh; Cetus.
• 1787 - Macbeth.
• 1817 - Narative causality.

Mathematics

• 470 - Group theory; binary operators; abelian groups; rings.
• 552 - René Descartes; "Congito ergo sum"; Cartesian coordinates.
• 691 - Parsnips; turnips; imaginary numbers.
• 692 - Image processing; edge enhancement; edge detection.
• 746 - De Moivre's theorem.
• 781 - Mazes; solving algorithms.
• 882 - Euclid; kebabs.
• 974 - Fugu; Poisson distribution; histograms versus bar graphs.
• 1068 - Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
• 1210 - Q.E.D.
• 1276 - Vector fields; curl; gradient; potential.
• 1280 - Manifolds; non-Euclidean geometry; geometry of the Universe.
• 1363 - Rock, Paper, Scissors; game theory.
• 1476 - Erdős numbers; Bacon numbers; Erdős-Bacon numbers; Natalie Portman.
• 1615 - Sextants; navigation.
• 1629 - Ciphers; codes.
• 1640 - Mathematical functions; Fourier transforms.
• 1656 - Pirate puzzle; applying "perfect" logic to reality.
• 1735 - Greatest common divisors; Euclid's algorithm; Vichy France; 1930s European politics.
• 1807 - Fermat's last theorem.
• 1845 - Gödel's incompleteness theorem; formal mathematical logic.
• 1878 - Sectors; geometry; science fictional administrational units.
• 1960 - Complex numbers; applications to wave theory; Riemann hypothesis.
• 1962 - Orders of magnitude.
• 2011 - Eigenvectors, eigenvalues, and eigenspaces.

Mythology

• 598 - Atlantis; orichalcum.
• 673 - The Minotaur; Greek mythology; Knossos; Crete.
• 703 - The Minotaur, continued; Greek mythology.
• 1409 - Palladium of Troy; Heinrich Schliemann.
• 1955 - Cryptids.

Physics

• 341 - Baryons; fermions; spin quantum number; antisymmetric rotation.
• 389 - Mössbauer spectroscopy.
• 417 - Carnot's theorem; thermodynamic efficiency.
• 431 - The laws of thermodynamics.
• 434 - Heat conduction; heat radiation.
• 530 - Titius-Bode Law; planetary orbital spacing.
• 617 - Special relativity; time dilation; length contraction; mass increase; Lorentz factor.
• 762 - Time travel; paradox-free time travel; fixed history.
• 958 - Causality.
• 1186 - Razors; nanotechnology; fractals.
• 1213 - Zero-point energy; quantum harmonic oscillators; mass-energy equivalence; cosmological constant.
• 1420 - Maxwell's equations; electromagnetism; speed of light.
• 1424 - Yeti; H.P. Lovecraft; Pluto; definition of a planet; Kuiper belt.
• 1524 - Mars; canals; Giovanni Schiaparelli; Percival Lowell.
• 1525 - Quantum mechanics; quantum numbers; fermions; bosons; Pauli exclusion principle.
• 1554 - Quantum; quantisation of matter; quantisation of energy; quantum leap.
• 1636 - Nuclear reactors; supersonic speed; Cherenkov radiation.
• 1871 - Time travel; causality; paradoxes.
• 1944 - Quantum mechanics; double slit experiment; wave-particle duality; Schödinger's cat.