This Online Page Explores “The Darker Side Of Science”, And Here Are 40 Of Their Funniest Posts (New Pics)
I think we can all agree that science is a good thing.
Science has led to virtually all of human progress (the remaining part probably being sheer accident) and we’re better off now. And if you don’t think so, then please give back the phone you’re likely scrolling this page on and go back to the dark ages.
Speaking of dark, there’s a Facebook group called The Darker Side Of Science that’s all about science memes of varying degrees of laughtitude. Yes... that’s a metric [looks nonchalant].
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People are buying this idiocy of 'the robots will do all the boring jobs". Great. What do they think will happen to all the human who do those boring jobs? While being a cashier or a petrol station clerk is nobody's dream, at least it puts food on the table. The robots will save the big companies millions but it will create even more poverty and inequality.
news flash: being a clerk at a petrol station will keep you in poverty.
Load More Replies...Yes...SO FAR. Sadly, there are some brilliant criminals out there (& also in politics). Just imagine what this world *could* have become, if people w/ the brainpower, ability & resources had decided to do some Good w/ such gifts. Alas, too few of the 1% chose that route. It's tragic for humanity that so many who could have Truly made a Big Difference wasted such potential positive outcomes. Instead, they've chosen to chase Greed & Power. This situation is on target to become tragic for *EVERYONE* before the end of THIS century. Elon may be able to get a few humans to Mars... where he will *also* have Full Control of the oxygen they need to survive. Good luck, small band of remaining future humans. As you suffer your impending slavery to Dork Vader, I'll be happily decomposing. Our species' worst traits WILL be its undoing, as the future grows ever darker. 😥
Load More Replies...To any idiot saying that a minimum wage job won't put food on the table never had one and it varys by state what u get paid.im not saying wages don't need a flat rate or need to be higher im saying it's better than nothing cuzed I've worked several
Rest assured that people w/ functioning brain cells understood your post w/o any confusion. And agree w/ you completely. Let's hope our species wises up in time to avoid further catastrophe. 🍀🤞
Load More Replies...AI arts sucks, I want to be an artist as an adult but what if AI art is good enough by then to replace it????
That sounds like the urgent care is sharing a building with the local brothel.
Load More Replies...It's obvious that this Twitter user has no idea about how to setup scientific experiments.
Randomized clinical trials sounds more scientific than trick or treatment. Even though the latter is more accurate to how people feel.
There's a really good book called Trick or Treatment (although it's a bit old now) nu Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_or_Treatment%3F
The idiot: I haven't slept for 2 days just to find a name don't judge me.
But wait the stones didn't kill the dinosaurs - it was the change to the atmosphere wasn't it ?
So, The Darker Side Of Science is a Facebook group that’s actually a part of IFLScience, a UK-based science news website. And that is a part of the LabX Media Group.
Anywho, besides news, the group features memes and posts that are in some shape or form related to science, leaving everyone having learned something in the end.
Ugh. Yea. Especially if you work in epidemiology during a pandemic. X/
Load More Replies...kinda getting the feeling that the phys dot org does a decent job, but so many are just plain clickbait.
Load More Replies...You should hear what they say when a Scientist changes their position due to new info.
The effing news cycle of someone mentioning solar storms and what they could do, vs the "science" sites with headlines "Scientists warn: Solar storm heading our way! Here's what to do to protect yourself"
The history of why Pluto became a planet and Ceres didn't is quite interesting. It's mostly because Pluto was originally calculated to be much bigger. And Ceres was originally calculated to be much smaller. Make Ceres a planet, I say.
Ceres was a planet for half a century after its discovery, was then "demoted" to asteroid (together with Vesta, Pallas and Hygea). Now it promoted again.
Load More Replies...Pluto! It's been through hell and led a dog's life.
Load More Replies...Oh for heaven’s sake! It isn’t about size, in these instances (unlike some others I could mention). It’s about the ability to clean out one’s orbit of other materiel. Pluto’s orbit is so wildly elliptical and off-center to the rest of the planets, it may very well end up a moon (moons…if you count its tag along little buds) to Neptune some millennium. And let’s not even start on the hood Ceres lives in……ugh…….
Pluto has been reclassified as a “dwarf planet”. But think about it - if you had nine children and one of them turned out to have dwarfism, would you disown them and say you have eight children?
Counterpoint: it’s disrespectful to call your family members by the wrong attribute.
Well ... we define a set of properties that a body must have to be a planet - orbiting a star, or having done so, hydrostatic equlibrium, visible in the spherical shape (well, somewhat, let's leave it at that for now, although there's more to spheres and hydrostatic equilibria), and we should decide on a set that makes sense. Astrologists may be a better match to define than I am (come to me with questions about vehicle tech, that, I know), but after defining a sound set of criteria, every body in question is examined, and either is a planet, or is not. If we'd change the definition to include Pluto, how many other almost-planets are there to include, that are just slightly smaller, slightly less spherical, slightly less stable in their orbit? We'd crowd the sky, so to say. Pluto being a dwarfplanet (in german, these are called "Zwergplanet", literal translation) is fine by me ... makes it no less Pluto, and no different, it just is a word that defines a type of astrological body. Pluto, having been considered a planet for almost half an orbit, now is kind of the Star among dwarfplanets or almost-planets or whatever they're called - way better known than any of the other. Five in our solar system (Exoplanets are more the bigger side of planets anyway, any exosolar object that might qualify, isn't observable by us as of now, therefore, we don't know any, but have reason to expect them to exist) are considered dwarfplanets, and I only know Pluto. About 100 could be classified as such, but aren't yet - and, whatever we call Pluto, it's as known as all the other doubtless planets, and still an interesting object of research for various reasons.
I think most vegetables, grains and fruit we like to eat have been bred and adapted by our ancestors to a much larger extent than most people realize. I've seen a picture of what wild corn looked like before humans got their hands on it. Just two or three puny kernels on a stalk!
And I just found out we dont have a lemon tree in our backyard, but a citron tree.
The group currently boasts around 787,500 members.
It also boasts smart, witty, and clever memes in conjunction with any manifestation of the concept of funny. And you’d be surprised just how effective learning is through fun content. But more on that a bit later.
Ditto. I injured my ankle seven years ago falling down some stairs. Last year, I injured it again..guess how 🤦🏻♀️ And it never has been the same..I now have to use a cane if I’m going to be walking for more than ten minutes..
Load More Replies...As a programmer, I concur that it is more simple to start from 0 than to repair the code
Kinda sorta true; talking with physical and/or occupational therapy after an injury can help minimize the permanent effects that would alter its function.
Same here! Twisted my ankle a few years ago and now I have some wonderful ankle issues. :D
My dad walked across the kitchen and somehow severely damaged his knee and it's all because he twisted his knee skiing 20 years ago.
My grandad used to say that offence isn't something that can be given, it can only be taken.
That lets a lot of people off the hook who shouldn't be. We are responsible for what comes out of our mouths, not anyone else.
Load More Replies...Should read MANY things to offend everyone. Good books make you think, and many people are offended when you challenge their preconceived ideas.
I wish people would stop buying and breeding animals with flat faces. Still a cute pile of snow, though.
Our soft can-opener says she can't tell us apart in the dark. I'm a silver tabby, with an Egyptian face. Audi is a golden tabby with a round face. His stripes are darker and thicker than mine, and he's bigger and taller. My fur is more silky, and my voice is higher. Our soft can-opener is just blind.
I guess you are gorgeous 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍. Your soft can opener must love you :)
Load More Replies...I love them both. I wanna pet them. I wanna kiss them - they would possibly scratch me to death for it- but I don't care. I wanna spoil them 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
For example, the meme that took me a while to understand is the one that needed to be done, according to the caption. And the meme features a direct and detailed comparison between apples and oranges. You’re welcome.
But there are memes that are less taxing on the brain, like the different physical states of cats, what the perfect angle looks like, the likelihood of dinosaurs having hair.
A wild crow in Finland enlisted itself to a dog school. Memorized the schedule, perfect attendance, learned the tricks. Also learned how to open the teacher's backpack and stole the treats. There's even a news story about it.
That's the kind of news I want to read every day.
Load More Replies...Just by bringing a pen to class, that crow is ahead of the curve. You have no idea, how many of my classmates show up, on a daily basis, without a pen or pencil. IN COLLEGE!
my friend feeds crows after school and if they don't feed them the crows yell at them.
Was thinking this also, could be the crow knows the kid, saw him drop it and wanted to return it
Load More Replies...Do you think Pavlov's dog eventually figured out that when the bell rang, Pavlov brought him food? So did the dog learn how to ring the bell? And did Pavlov eventually have the urge to feed his dog whenever he heard a bell ring?
🎵"and in the end the love you make is equal to the love you take"🎶 🎸🐞
Load More Replies...He's revolting, of course. But punish him gently. No assault and battery.
Load More Replies...Let's see ... One! .... that's ONE! HA HA that's ONE! down for The Count! ONE-656f72...8b83b7.jpg
So, what was that bit about learning being fun? American English points out that making learning fun gives students meaningful opportunities to apply their newly-acquired knowledge all the while lowering what’s called the affective filter.
The affective filter is essentially an attitude (or a set of them) that affects the success of second language learning in people.
I can outrun a gummy bear. Those little buggers have never gotten away from me.
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Load More Replies...Does Pandas count as bears? Does Bored ones also count? If so, then you can outrun a bear, because I sure as heck can’t outrun anyone
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Load More Replies...I've always said that's why the guys invite me on epic backcountry motorcycle adventures, they know if I'm along they have the "slowest victim" job taken care of.
Load More Replies...Yes you would that's a 700 lb meat missle flying in at 35 mph, you are jelly
Put me on the other slice of bread, not directly onto the peanut butter.
Load More Replies...Montanan here. Please stop coming here and starting sh@t with the wildlife. They usually win and we laugh at your injuries/death. Better yet, please stop coming here. FYI: we have attack Otters.
Live in the NC Blue Ridge Mountains...and agree with the Montanan.
Load More Replies...Try to see how fast is an hippopotamus........you will be amazed....
The number one killer of people in Africa! Clearly people under estimate it.
Load More Replies...you dont have to outrun the bear. You only have to outrun the person next to you
I can get up quickly but it will be followed by a bunch of snapping noises.
Load More Replies...Owls are just busy being awesome, not caring that they are being watched by awed humans.
Legs crossed on the ground. We used to call it (American) "Indian-style" in the 70s.
Load More Replies...Oooor going in a glass container with soil and some plants and be fed and admired
Load More Replies...I can't wait to show this to my wife and ask "can we get whatever animal has these fuzzy little paws"? Lol
Mean. But I support it... because I'm mean, too.
Load More Replies...Anyway, when using learning activities that are engaging and fun, students often become more willing to participate in them and take risks. By introducing the element of fun, the human mind has an easier job at retaining information because of how enjoyable the process is.
That's a pretty good description. I think I'll use that. I already call my depression my emotional black hole.
Dang that's sad. I have an ex boyfriend that I called my emotional black hole. My antidepressant was just dumping him. And voila ! The endless void was lifted ! Lol
Load More Replies...Explaining it as spicy Déjà Vu makes total sense and I feel more people would understood that. I was diagnosed with it over a decade ago. So now I can say I'm spicy! LOL!
Me telling myself that I'm fine despite definitely not being fine
I don't think it's possible to gaslight yourself. Grammatically speaking.
Well more accurately, you’ve gaslit yourself into not being ok. The CBT aims to undo that 🙂
Liberating of course being very different to stealing
Load More Replies...We all have been knowing that since that Wallace and Gromit movie came out
Almost all animals have criminal tendencies. Orcas sinking ships lately. Dolphins sexually assaulting porpoise. Chimps kill monkeys ect.ect.
American English also provides examples of fun activities to try out: listening tasks can become more fun if they are turned into a team-based game show; speaking tasks can be turned into a twenty questions type of game; reading can be a relay race of reading a set length of text; and writing can become a game where students pick out writing prompts from grab bags. That definitely beats sitting down and listening, though.
My hair looks like the gray is from not getting enough pictures of Spider-Man
Probably because it is a clearly understandable wording of something's death, when it knows it is coming any second and remains aware of it until the very last moment.
Load More Replies...They didn't. It never said this. A scientist said it and the media distorted it for clicks.
Load More Replies...Don't let them watch "silent running" - about the saddest ending I've ever seen in a sci-fi.
When you see a rabbit skeleton and an actual rabbit, you realise our imagination of the dinosaurs could be very, very wrong! 😂
Cute ... I would Dread running into one just the same.
Load More Replies...They would have had to have done each others hair, TRex has wee little arms
I'd take that down before some twat tries to claim cultural appropriation
And you can honestly do that with any discipline. All you need is to adapt the games to the types of skills you’re teaching and you’re set.
In terms of science—any science discipline, really—one of the more popular ways of engaging folks to learn are field trips. Heck, even going out to the playground or garden can teach kids about our world. You know, slugs, photosynthesis, the need for recycling and pollution, that sort of thing.
Back in the late 80s I was living in Florida and for one of my open water SCUBA dives, we went to Crystal Springs (I think that was the name). It had a section of the river that was a manatee sanctuary and since you couldn't enter one as such, you could hang out nearby and wait with just our snorkeling equipment. After a short while a couple of manatees came over to us and interacted with us. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life! They came and rolled over and seemed to like belly rubs. And here is the point of the story.... they did indeed fart. A lot. It was awesome.
I tried this once, I can't try it again as I'm now banned from the local pool.
As the spinning velocity changed during the last 71 million years (can't remember which way), it's even way more off.
Load More Replies...My friend who has an velociraptor online persona: I'm about to ruin this streak.
hmmmmm yes. my old job has so many velociraptors in it. (this is a joke)
I feel like someone was just bored at work and decided to calculate this and now wishes to use this number somehow so this poster was created.
Well I got it nearly a year ago... Then it detached itself! All is fine now thanks for stents and medication (and stopping smoking and having a better diet and exercising... ☺ )
Load More Replies...Not a coincidence that the tissue blocking the artery is the color of potato chips.
I was going to say that the lipids look like Mac and cheese. Which isn’t terribly wrong… 🤣
Load More Replies...But, ultimately, you don’t really need to go anywhere to make learning fun. Running lab experiments is just as exciting—capillary action, amplifying smartphones, the candle in a water glass trick, crystallizing rock candy, apple slice oxidation, building a solar oven, layer liquids are just some of many options out there to try out.
DNA - double-stranded helix, RNA - single-stranded
Load More Replies...RNA looks more like a Brillo Pad (with a 'bridge' for the transcriptase).
Oh weird! I just assumed it was a lumberjack until I checked it again after reading your comment lol
Load More Replies...Actually, bacteria provide some of the most destincive flavors in the world. So, Bacteria very much IS a flavor.
Mine is one of those single use plastic Gatorade bottles with the cool twisty orange lids. Had it for 8 months now :)
I am utterly and completely called out in this one. Now don't mind me while I drink from my pink slime bottle.
The science is “sucky medical conditions notwithstanding, you won’t die if you eat a fücking meat pie from time to time”
How many calories are in 200 kph? I'm an ET and don't understand all the Earthlings' measurement systems. Take me to your liter.
Load More Replies...And if you take a cake and cut it in half it's only half the calories and you can eat twice as much
Also cookies that are on sale are only half as bad for you.
can I eat about 5 chocolate overload cakes and still be hungry though.
But if you can’t be bothered with any of that, there’s always the good ol’ internet. Sure, hands on stuff is fun, but scrolling through science-based memes can also be beneficial. I still can’t shake off how much I needed to think about the apples and oranges comparison—they are not that different when you think about it. Hey, today I learned, right?
I'm having a deja vu or I read the exact same entry in some other post and the exact same comment.
Load More Replies...Here's a tip: Poisonous means you die by touching it, Venomous means you die by it touching you
In Australia, this question doesn’t need to be asked. Everything will try to kill you.
While unusual, there are a few species of snake that are actually poisonous. Rhabdophis keelback snakes are both venomous and poisonous – their poisons are stored in nuchal glands and are acquired by sequestering toxins from poisonous toads the snakes eat. - https://www.osc.org/can-snakes-be-venomous-and-poisonous/
there's a difference between poison and venom. yet if you search if daddy long legs are poisonous it says the but with the word poisonous as when you search if they are venomous. I told some sassy girl at school that there's a difference when she was saying they were poisonous, she said there wasn't. she's gonna face the truth someday tho.
And WHY, when people are touting the benefits of insect protein, is this not mentioned as a major incentive??!
Bats are such amazing creatures and one more reason to prove that. Super cute
My dogs once ate a box of crayons, so I know the science behind this...
Today my physics teacher called him jobless because he did a lot of science
I like them thicc af would honestly be easier to remember than the greater the mass, the greater the force of attraction.
I'm laughing like a psychotic Dora the explorer right now :)
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When everyone gets the wrapper thing right, jet packs will be distributed
Load More Replies..."Do not eat this wrapper". The documentary, "Idiocracy" is way too close to home.
By the types of warning labels on relative safe things, and my experience in driving on regular American roads, I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE HELLSCAPE OF FLYING CAR RECKLESS DRIVING
The turtle frog of Australia is equally weird. It lives underground and has no tadpoles, the eggs give birth to small adult frogs. It is frequently mistaken for a baby turtle.
And, like all Aussie animals it kills it's first human by age 6 weeks...
Load More Replies...To be perfect it need the angle written on it as well. You can't scrimp on details.
Load More Replies...It wouldn't be right to deny it and obtuse to say otherwise.
Load More Replies...Neoteny is the retention of juvenile features in the adult animal. Humans are a perfect example.
When I was a baby I had a nose. I still have a nose. Incredible ;-)
Load More Replies...I thought this meant humans too and for i hot second i was considering seeing a therapist
It's edible. The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas is a 1948 Thor Heyerdahl lived largely on flying fish that landed on the raft.
I guess nearly everything is edible if you are hungry enough
Load More Replies...We had a bunch of flying fish land on our boat at night when we were using spot lights for octopus fishing and they were pretty tasty.
And to think, many people cannot live with the same paint color on their walls for more than 2 years.
The top four web pages giving the number of million years ago when mosses first arrived give: 470 MY ago, 450 MY ago, 350 MY ago and 250-300 MY ago. So I'm not sure that anyone really has the faintest idea.
No no, in my experience, lactose intolerant people ignore their intolerence until it's too late.
I don’t give a damn if I’m lactose intolerant, I like cheese, and ice cream, and other dairy things
Load More Replies...hah! i learned i was intolerant to dairy AFTER learing about the Milky Way
Never play a piano your not willing to commit to. _Schrödinger Schrodinge...d5-png.jpg
Whenever I see this photo, I want to tell the irate woman that just because her boyfriend is on a diet does not mean he can't read the menu.
Only the outer surface is true rock. Just underneath is more like very hot custard.
Hi, you’re on a rock, floating in space. Pretty cool huh? Some of its water. Actually most of its water. So much of its water that I can’t even get from here to there without buying a boat. It’s sad. I’m sad. I miss you. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
a long time ago, actually never, but also now
Load More Replies...Lean against some railing that has a low & a high bar?
Load More Replies...Maybe they’re designed so homeless people can sleep on public things (benches for example) that have been purposefully designed to discourage this? You’d need to be wearing a very specific type of weird looking clothing, so I don’t see it working
It's an art project. A lot of buildings in city centres are deliberately created for people to be unable to sit on them. This artist wanted to draw attention to how inhumane it is that corporation's wishes are considered more important than human's need to sit down once in a while. So the artist showed what shapes our bodies would need to be, for us to be able to sit down in city centres.
Load More Replies...My grandad always called it Adam's ale. I thought it was interesting, since he never drank actual ale :)
Load More Replies...Plonk = wine. Grog = general alcohol, probably beer if you're Australian. Joe = coffee. Etc etc
Load More Replies...if this was the actual song, mariah carey would have been classed as a nuclear weapon. Instead of defrosting, we have the unleadening. (thats a word now)
She is officially a SCP that breaches every Christmas (if you don't know what SCP is I recommend looking it up, trigger waning of course because some of the things can be a bit rough, but it's cool over all)
Load More Replies...The shortened it from 43 to 40, like WHY bother??
Load More Replies...Does anyone else get video ads on the app when they're scrolling through or try to read a post?! What the hell has happened to Bored Panda?! They either show me video ads or ada that are disguised as posts to fool you into buying something. Did Elon Musk buy Bored panda or something? It's all about the ads and money now. Ew.
Yeah I get ads every time I leave an article now. To screw them for their down fall I've limited it so only one article before swiping off the app lol, so disappointed. I would actually pay money if they started giving more consistently good posts again, if they're that desperate for money from ads. So sad
Load More Replies...University math instructor here. That math prof one was cold but accurate
The shortened it from 43 to 40, like WHY bother??
Load More Replies...Does anyone else get video ads on the app when they're scrolling through or try to read a post?! What the hell has happened to Bored Panda?! They either show me video ads or ada that are disguised as posts to fool you into buying something. Did Elon Musk buy Bored panda or something? It's all about the ads and money now. Ew.
Yeah I get ads every time I leave an article now. To screw them for their down fall I've limited it so only one article before swiping off the app lol, so disappointed. I would actually pay money if they started giving more consistently good posts again, if they're that desperate for money from ads. So sad
Load More Replies...University math instructor here. That math prof one was cold but accurate
