What if I told you that there is a way to keep scrolling without having some loud-mouth influencer telling you to stop it because it rots your brain? You just gotta substitute whatever that you're scrolling with the big brain version of it.
Enter clever science memes as per The Lighter Side Of Science, a Facebook group that’s all about science memes to give you an educated giggle and hopefully not rot your brain.
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So, there’s a Facebook group called The Lighter Side Of Science that prides itself in, predominantly, sharing memes that are lightly scientific and cool, all the while delivering a certain level of humor and relatability.
The group is actually a part of IFL Science and has roughly 741,000 members as of this listicle.
Their tongue is long and wraps around it's brain to protect it during high speed pecking..
Sadly, OP would have smelt of horse, not corpses.
For the record, it’s not all memes. There is community engagement going on in several ways, including IFL Science promoting its own articles and folks in the community themselves asking scientific questions and everyone else jumping on board and brainiacking this thing out.
Engaging to say the least.
Now, we won’t dive into what memes are and why they are such a big deal. The tl;dr of it is it’s become a means of communication and connectivity among folks all the while they’re popular because they’re relatable.
What we haven’t yet discussed is the scientific side of it all: how can they be educational and why would that matter?
Be careful what you ask for, you might just get it. (AI implants, etc.)
I wouldn't want the first few generations of AI implants. But I think they'd be great once you got past the "oops sorry our chip fried your brain, the new patch should fix that bug" issues.
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I wish I could delete some of the stored data. That would be sensational (and probably misused within splitseconds)
Unfortunately, some people don't see pictures in their mind, so they need a text interface.
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THIS. People that can name their Top 10 All Time Fave songs, films, etc.. are crazy to me. I can't even remember what I went into the kitchen for. I literally have a list of my fave band, films, etc. because, despite being my all time faves, i can never remember what they are!!
So, I typed in sooo helpful and autocorrect changed it to spooky but that works even better!🤣😂
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What do I want to eat? What was that book, you know the one with the people doing the things…
I wish my mind was like a telephone where I could block certain memories and have others on speed dial.
Wish I could Google search my own computer. One and a half terabytes of files, where's the one about where I solved the origin of life?
I think about this another actually. I have to much in my head. It's like a computer with a bunch of files scattered anywhere and everywhere because I choose to put it in a random location that made sense at the time.
i cannot love this post enough!!!! when will we be able to do this????not sure i want a chip implant tho.....
Me: "Where are my car keys?" Google Brain: "On the coffee table where you left them you idiot!"
I think this is essentially the info Google collects on all of us surreptitiously. So maybe you can?
Soon, Goog spyware will be able to answer all that for you...
I definitely want a back button when I realise too late that someone said something I need to remember.
Especially with a really bad memory like mine, I couldn’t remember the name of bubble wrap yesterday, called it squashy popping pillow
Please science work on this one. So none of ever have to wonder what we just walked into that room for.
I would find this useful :) “which bands did I see at Glastonbury in ‘94?” “What are the names of my friend’s kids?” “What on earth happened in ‘96?”
We remember everything except where the memories are stored in our brains.
... oh, don't worry, they will soon offer You a chip implant to do just that... and their won't be any advertising... or invasion of privacy... Nothing to see here, move along.
Hopefully, your search results will be more like 'Early Google' and less like 'Current Google' (c**p unrelated to your search and endless ads).
Oh my gosh, this is maybe the most useful suggestion I've ever heard. Make it be!
You can search your mind. It's an ancient process called thinking and it actually works if you devote more than 20 seconds to it. We aren't trained to do that anymore. We are too spoiled with "instant" answers, but the tool is still there.
I've had a few dreams where I've been doing normal day to day stuff and I can't find something so I pull up an inventory to check how many I have and where I've stored them. Then I realise that's not possible and wake up. So I need mental tooltips when I look at something "You have 2 oranges in the fridge, and three on the kitchen table".
Well, turns out, you can use memes that relate to the content at hand to teach folks something new.
Three main tactics are suggested for this, the first of which being dual coding. This one works when there is a visual and verbal component that ties in well with what you’re teaching and it ultimately strengthens student comprehension.
This makes me happy! Next thing will be a potato farm.
The other two are using concrete examples, i.e. memes are concrete examples of abstract and complicated ideas or concepts, and elaboration, which is using memes to connect students’ personal knowledge with real world observations.
The former is used to support the students’ understanding of the material, while the latter helps them dive deeper into analysis and elaboration.
Serves them right. They probably still have crickets in their home.
This in turn means that students can also engage with the material by explaining the memes that tie in with the topic and by creating them.
For the first one, students can be provided with appropriate memes or asked to source existing memes to explain how it connects to what they have learned in their own words.
Well done. For those not familiar with champagne: The French are very protective of that word. Only sparkling wine from that exact region is allowed to carry the word "champagne" on the bottle. For every other wine with bubbles "sparkling wine" has to be used. Or Crémant. Edit: The Crémant part is incorrect, explanation see below. Reason for mistake: I was lazy.
With the second, more hands-on one, students can be asked to create their own memes by finding pictures and coming up with captions that capture the idea of what they are studying.
The approaches to these can vary and it’s up to the teacher to find appropriate ways to deliver the material effectively.
Black hole's name is Maude and she sees the sandwich in your hand
The answer to this problem was to let us include publication cost in proposal budgets. Just now being added - clean up and disposal costs for the project. Next up - accepting the fact that grad students *are* part of the cost of conducting research. NSF and NIH continue to leave them off the budget template as if they are not.
Now, there are risks involved. For starters, there has to be a bit of guidance with what prior knowledge is retrieved in the kids’ minds that would be associated with the study material.
Another huge no-no is using memes that are not as accessible as others, i.e. blind kids can’t see visual memes and kids with zero pop culture awareness might not get some of the more popular ones.
But if you avoid inappropriate angles on memes, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Whatever the case, memes tend to stick with people because of their relatability and thus serves as a great way to approach learning new things. If anything, the kids should have a blast.
I worked with a paramedic in the 90s who always replied "dressed and vertical". There are many days in my life now where I use it because sometimes that's a major accomplishment.
We’d love to hear from you, lovely Pandas, so why not share some of your witty science facts or memes in the comments!
And if you’re hungry for more science, then Bored Panda’s got that covered too.
I, a professionally trained military photographer, forgot the word 'shutter' and called it the camera's 'blinky eye.' Thankfully, it was in front of my father and he only laughs at me for it all the time.
I like to think its more "We are finally as far away from the bears as we possibly can."
To be fair there are a lot of really freaky mutations in real life too. They're just not usually fun ones like XMen style mutations.
Imagine being a farmer and some people came and trampled on your crop for a silly photo.
Note: this post originally had 58 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
destineemya21, if you're going to copy every comment, wouldn't it be easier to copy/ past instead of re-typing everything?
Thanks Robertas! And a lot of Pandas really outdid themselves in the comments 🤣🤣🤣 thanks everyone!
Except destineemya21, who apparently has never had an original thought.
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destineemya21, if you're going to copy every comment, wouldn't it be easier to copy/ past instead of re-typing everything?
Thanks Robertas! And a lot of Pandas really outdid themselves in the comments 🤣🤣🤣 thanks everyone!
Except destineemya21, who apparently has never had an original thought.
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