#2986: Every Scientific Field

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[A pie chart, with a very slim section in the upper left is shown. Both the thin section and the rest are labeled with lines going from label to the sections. Above this is a large header:]

The makeup of every scientific field:

Thin section: Everything you've heard of

Large section: Some obscure-sounding category like "Subsurface microbes" or "Dark energy" or "Parasitoid wasps"

(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.


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