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?
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.
My nephew was born a couple of months after my father died. The curious thing is that my nephew has mannerisms that my father had. It's uncanny, especially now that he's older and look more and more as my father.
There have been cases where twins separated at birth will have the same taste in clothes and the same mannerisms, which surely gives rise to the idea that some of these things are hard wired in our genes.
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This is worrying. My mannerisms tend to the introvert(ish) side. How did my ancestors get together?... Am I about to wink out of existence now that I've been made awar.....................
Breathing is probably the mannerism that has been passed on thru most generations. It has gone so far, so people who try to stop that mannerism allways die swiftly.
I know this is not so much mannerisms but I talked with my dad once about how both he and I had b1tchy resting faces. He then told me that my grandma's ancestors always looked angry and it was just a fact in the local area. So I guess brf are genetically very strong in my family. Lol. Actually, since he told me this, I've felt better rooted in my family/better connected to my ancestors. ❤
I Would think it ends up something similar as the whisper game. Person next to you and your story is basically the same, but starts to deviate pretty quick. Mannerisms are similar close in generations but deviate more and more the further back you go, to a point were its not the same mannerisms.
Survival mechanics. 'parent lived long enough to have me, copy what they're doing and see if that works'
I know for a fact that I laugh like my Grandfather. Out of the five of us only one of my brothers and I have that laugh. Last week, I heard one of my sons laugh the same way!
My grandfather had gone blind before he died. But he was so happy to hear me laugh. He said I sounded just like my grandmother, who had passed 11 years earlier.
so far I only really notice the stuff I've gotten directly from my parents (seems like mostly my Mom), guess I'll have to pay more attention when visiting Grandma, too bad she lives so far away
When people ask me why I do weird things I will tell them they are old Luxembourgian customs. Very few people will know if I am right or wrong.
Some of that is totally genetic. At my grandmother 's 100th birthday party, I thought I overheard my sister but it was a distant cousin speaking. Also, my daughter is the absolute spit of her great granny, down to certain facial expressions and mannerisms.
Apparently, I have the same mannerisms as an aunt I never met. More than one family member has pointed this out.
Have you ever looked at your ancestor's handwriting??? THAT'S spooky how similar!!
I do know my children have picked up my finely honed sarcastic wit but it skipped a generation because I often have to label my sarcasm as such for my mom. I'd say maybe it came from my dad, but my half sister is also very sarcastic...unless she picked it up from me....
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.
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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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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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