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Surviving The World
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Daily Lessons in Science, Literature, Love, and Life . . . A Webcomic Updated Seven Days a Week, by Dante Shepherd
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Lesson #1406 - Teaching Styles

If ramming speed is applied literally, make sure to use a hardcover book. Get it? Literally? Liked this lesson? Share this comic!

41 min ago

Lesson #1405 - Parades

Happy Memorial Day, everyone. In honor of Grandpa, who served and proudly organized the Memorial Day parade every year. Sorry for the delay in updating today. Liked this lesson? Share this comic!

1 day ago

Lesson #1404 - New Parents

In the six hours between 2 AM and 8 AM this morning, Cannonball almost hit me three times. Its delightful. PUTTING YOUR SUPPORT TO GOOD USE: So I finally got a new camera, which, considering recent i...

2 days ago

Lesson #1403 - Unfortunate Potential

Anyone - no matter how smart, insightful, clever - has just as much potential to be an idiot as you or me. And thats fine! Just be careful to distinguish when their inner idiot busts through to make ...

3 days ago

Guest Lecture #28 - Hallelujah the Hills

And so Hallelujah the Hills week comes to an end! I hope youve enjoyed the series of comics from the band, marking the release of their third album. It was certainly a pleasure for me, and nice visua...

4 days ago

Guest Lecture #27 - Hallelujah the Hills

Hallelujah the Hills week continues, marking the release of their new album! After several days from frontman Ryan Walsh, todays guest lecture comes from bassist Nicholas Ward. Proving you are a mere...

5 days ago

Guest Lecture #26 - Hallelujah the Hills

Hallelujah the Hills week continues, marking the release of their new album! Its out and its good, people. For the record, heres one STW readers opinion on the band: "Wow! Listening to HTH for t...

6 days ago

Guest Lecture #25 - Hallelujah the Hills

Hallelujah the Hills week continues, marking the release of their new album that comes out today! Its really good and if you like good music, you should think about getting it. As to the guest comic ...

22 may 12

Guest Lecture #24 - Hallelujah the Hills

Hallelujah the Hills is the unofficial band of STW. I love their music - an eclectic rock blast of guitar and cello and trumpet - and have had several comics about them before. So its a thrill for me...

21 may 12

Lesson #1402 - Introductions

Anthropomophizing blackboards is actually kind of creepy, in a question-your-sanity disturbing way. So I bought a bunch of smaller blackboards, both for making comics in different locations, and for ...

20 may 12

Lesson #1401 - Definitions, Part XXI

Im sure someone has used the term before, but I question whether anyone has truly considered the prerequisites. Liked this lesson? Share this comic!

19 may 12

Lesson #1400 - Chess

Im not sure there has ever been a lesson more critical to the concept of a person surviving the world. Liked this lesson? Share this comic!

18 may 12

Lesson #1399 - Renaming

You probably already give your boss some derogatory monster nickname, so you may as well take it the rest of the way. Just change your first name to some state or province anywhere in the world (the ...

17 may 12

Lesson #1398 - Arguing, Part II

You see, theres this thing called response? You know, hearing the other side and considering your follow-up in direct regards to what the other side said, not just moving on to whatever other points ...

16 may 12

Lesson #1397 - Stupid Decisions

If you forget your history, youre doomed to repeat it. If you celebrate your terrible history, youre doomed to create new terrible history. But hey, at least youll be original. TODAY, MAY 15TH, IS ST...

15 may 12

Lesson #1396 - Relative Oldness

There are kids born in the nineties who can legally drink alcohol in the U.S. Youre welcome for the sudden case of "temporary not-really oldness". Liked this lesson? Share this comic!

14 may 12

Lesson #1395 - Arguing

And, once again, the internet has been explained in under 20 words. Happy Mothers Day to the many mothers in my life, none of whom are ever the idiots in the arguments, despite what the other sides m...

13 may 12

Lesson #1394 - Sleep-Deprivation

Yurgle? Liked this lesson? Share this comic!

12 may 12

Lesson #1393 - Theorems

Listen, Im telling you, its all here! Q equals W squared! It accurately predicts the number of times that, when two people are approaching each other from opposite directions, will step awkwardly sid...

11 may 12

Lesson #1392 - Coordination

All Im saying is that I would wear it very professionally. And yes, I would wear it to work. No, what is wrong with you? Thought about doing a follow-up topic-wise to yesterdays comic after the big p...

10 may 12

Lesson #1391 - Lessons For Children

But what do I know, right? Cannonballs only three weeks old. Maybe Im doing it wrong. But theres no way Im letting your way be the social education my child receives. Way to go, North Carolina. Your ...

09 may 12

Lesson #1390 - Spicy

Eventually, you get what youre looking for, but only once your mouth has been set on fire. Its like there is no connection between a good amount of spice and flavor. "Whats that? You like food t...

08 may 12

Lesson #1389 - Newborns

But not my baby Cannonball, oh no, shes adorable. I cant say the same for all your children, though. Shifting the color to make it seem more old-timey news was kind of fun. I would probably have enjo...

07 may 12

Student Presentation #18 - Pastries

Paternity leave concludes with a student presentation from Donna and Daniel. Culinary themed! Delicious. Spay and neuter your pastries, everyone. Thanks, Donna and Daniel! There were a bunch of other...

06 may 12

Student Presentation #17 - Party Drinking

Paternity leave continues with a student presentation from Josh Martin. I actually met Josh at SPX last year - turned out he was a fellow chemical engineer, so I only assume the above chart is a resu...

05 may 12

Guest Lecture #23 - Rosscott

And we come to the end of the guest lecture part of my paternity leave with acomic by Rosscott! You know Ross both for his comic The System as well as his grand traveling circus like show best known ...

04 may 12

Guest Lecture #22 - Jessica Hagy

Paternity leave guest lecture week continues with multiple creations from Jessica Hagy! Her index cards are everwhere - on her great site "Indexed", on her Smithsonian blog, on her Forbes b...

03 may 12

Guest Lecture #21 - Danielle Corsetto

I am truly beyond honored to continue my paternity leave guest lecture week with a comic from the amazing Danielle Corsetto! Danielle is the creator of the great webcomic "Girls With Slingshots&...

02 may 12

Guest Lecture #20 - Zach Weiner

Paternity leave guest lecture week continues with a guest comic from the great Zach Weiner! You know him from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, the deeply brilliant and deeply filthy webcomic, and f...

01 may 12

Guest Lecture #19 - Chris Yates

Paternity leave guest lecture week begins, with several great, great comic people contributing to STW for the next few days! First off is the great Chris Yates - not only is his photocomic "Repr...

30 apr 12

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