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@XKCD XKCD #2986 Explained: Randall is making the case that most scientific fields — such as cosmology, microbiology, or entomology as mentioned in the pie chart — spends a disproportionately huge amount of study on only a small number of subjects, which the common layperson might not have even heard of.

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