We’d still be living in the dark ages if it weren’t for science. Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Isaac Newton and so many other bright sparks paved the way to the world as we know it. While the stereotypical scientist is sometimes seen a lonely nerd in a lab coat, with hardly any friends and a lacklustre sense of humor, that’s as far from the truth as outer space.
Intellectual Science Memes is a cool corner of the internet where close to 11,000 science-loving followers come to collectively cackle at daily scientific memes and reels. "Follow if u are smart", reads the bio. But "smart" is relative. And as Einstein once said, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.” Bored Panda has formulated a list of our favorite posts from the page, scientifically proven to make you laugh. Keep scrolling and let us know which ones left you in stitches.
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I never used this particular one, but in earlier days of my teaching career I tried to do that kind of stuff. Acknowledge the student's work and bring in a little fun. Unfortunately, I cannot longer do so. Every part of every question has to be substantiated and derived form the course guide. No more room for any creativity.
As a teacher, I put this at the end of every test for extra credit. I know how frustrating it is to study something and not have it turn up on the test.
I think my brain would explode and everything would fall out with that one.
History exam question. Answer: Chaucher is best known as the author of Canterbury Tales....
That's *exactly* what I was thinking. It's so clearly carbon-based.
Load More Replies...Yep. I was like, I don't know what it's called, all I know is it's painful.
Load More Replies...Chemistry is the devil's work. Change my mind. (/s ;D)
Load More Replies...The college bookstore was robbed yesterday of $20,000 worth of books. Luckily, they were both found today
Your stand is a bit out of plumb. Shore up the low side with you folded student loan application!
his expression makes me laugh so hard, not to mention the books and the TV stand
The Science Council defines science as “the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.” And Nasa’s Space Place simplifies it to “curiosity in thoughtful action about the world and how it behaves.”
While scientists have been around for ages, the actual word "scientist" was only "invented" in 1833, by a British chap called William Whewell. Before then, there were philosophers and cultivators of science. It took Whewell a few tries before he settled on the word scientist.
"The first he considered was savant, or men of learning. But he dismissed that for both being presumptuous and French. He also considered the German term naturforscher, which is really naturalist. But he worried that some might make fun of that term, calling it nature-poker or nature-peeper," said Howard Markel, professor of the history of medicine at the University of Michigan, during an interview with NPR.
There's always the female's DNA, plus from one to multiple male DNA via superfecundation. Litters can be a real who's who.
Dad blonde blue eyes and tall. Mom short dark and green central heterochromia eyes. First 2 girls tall and blonde, last short and dark, but all got central heterochromia green eyes.
Load More Replies...**to the last commenter, not the post caption. The post caption is correct** If you're being serious, no it's not. You're thinking of the Mandela effect and that is a completely (completely) different thing.
*Cats. It's pronounced "Myoo." To make up for my "Well, Ackshley" post, here's a fun fact: I remember reading (I think in "Discover" science magazine) that the name-giver (forgot who) of the Muon had no good reason to pick Mu in particular for this particle, but (possibly joking?) claimed it was because his office overlooked a herd of cattle. Other scientists, such as Niels Bohr, wanted to name it after Yukawa, and so it was sometimes known as a Yukon, which is the worst Yukon pun I've heard since the University of Connecticut (U-Conn) named their sports teams "the Huskies." (The U-Conn Huskies?)
It's pronounced me - assuming those are greek cows, because that's how it is pronounced in Greece
Load More Replies...Eine Kuh mach Muh, viele Kühe machen Mühe. Unfortunately this does not translate into english
Based on the English pronunciation, this should've been a field of cat's saying Mu, but μ with Greek pronunciation is Mee.
this is exactly how i utilize reviews to purchase anything
And thanks to AI and other ways of rigging scams and shenanigans, the right-hand sample size is now (or will soon be) as suspect as the left-hand one :-(
The FTC made new rules stopping that in August 2024. Hopefully the Trump trainwreck won't screw that up too.
Load More Replies...Especially since there a party interested in fudging the results
Keeping with his current cabinet picks, will Trump appoint a flat earther to head NASA?
Load More Replies...*Me, running to the comments to say just this exact same thing*
Load More Replies...Yes but how else would you do it? If Alaska looks even more larger than Texas than it is, it's a win...
There is actually a better way, I have forgotten the name though, sorry
Load More Replies...Ok, this would be wrong if it were an octopus, but it's clearly Cthulhu
They could have shown the 3 hearts and 9 brains that Octopus have.......now that would have been cool
In what country is this photo taken? $269 for a plastic skeleton that doesn't depict anything in this realm of reality seems a little bit steep to me.
I went to Kew Gardens on Nov 1 and they had plastic spider skeletons everywhere 😆
And gas: they will expand or contract to fit the size of the container they are in
I showed my friend this. Her opinion is “marshmallow. That is a marshmallow.”
Its The Blob and Unas the Untouchable, captured X-Men villains
I have both of these - Persian and Oriental shorthair. Seeing them together every day is one of life's joys for me!!!
I once read an essay proving that cats were liquid because they take the shape of their container and other reasons I don't remember it was pretty convincing
now my blood platelets know how i feel every time a drawing i was working on was not saved
No one who's lived with cats has ever questioned this ability. They live by their own geometric rules.
I'd love to see a video that shows her just walking off down the wall.
Load More Replies...I could do calculus no problem but statistics destroyed me
Load More Replies...The difference is mostly maths content. Moles still haunt me. Same for some electrical equations.
Well, that's the point: you take Bio because you like plants and animals, and end up confronted by Chemistry everywhere you turn.
Load More Replies...Fahrenheit originally made 100F human body temperature. He chose 0F as the coldest temperature he could consistently make at the time. A mixture of salt and natural ice. Refrigeration hadn't been invented yet. It's pretty messed up we still use it here and he was off by more than two degrees on the hot end but here we are.
Except it doesn't. This is what Americans say to try to insist that Fahrenheit is still relevant. It isn't. I feel in celcius, I know the weather in celcius. I have absolutely no idea what Fahrenheit is beyond freezing and boiling point because I don't live in the 19th century.
If I simply concede your superiority, Fat Harry, any chance I can get you to preface "Americans" with "some" or even "many" in your numerous comments about what Americans say or do?
Load More Replies...Celsius is how I feel. I don't care how molecules feel. Also, Celsius is spelt with TWO letters S.
yall: Fahrenheit works like this: it's a scale of 1 to 100 pretty much. 100 is 100% hot, ur really hot and you don't like it. 0 is 0% hot, very cold, not good. 75 is 75% hot, warm but not too much. that's what this post means!
So in your mind, when I look at tomorrow's forecast temperatures i.e. 13-33, I can't tell what that really means unless I multiply by 1.8 and then add 32? Do you see how nonsensical that is?
Load More Replies...But Fahrenheit makes as much sense for water as Celsius. With Fahrenheit, 0 degrees is the freezing point of salt water. With Celsius, 0 degrees is the freezing point of fresh water. Why is one better than the other? The freezing point of salt water is a much more significant temperature for the human body, which is largely made up of salt water.
Fahrenheit was also said to be developed by cattle being able to survive in the open. Not so sure about 0°F (- 18°C). - 18°C is the lowest freezing point one can achieve by saturating water with salt (or freezing blood?).
Having had to grade test answers like this during my professorship, I can attest to the veracity of this meme.
AI is just a kid who didn't read the work and needs 500 words for 9 tomorrow morning
It's better than having to do the work on a cast iron Underwood.
Load More Replies...Doing a thesis in Word is an expereience. Multiple files and then another gluing them together is one option. We all try and then too late hear about options like LaTeX.
We had to do a "group thesis" in my bachelor's. We tried to do it in Word, but oh boy was that a failure. A friend of mine introduced my group to LaTeX. It's a PITA to learn, but once you found a good template and know how to find packages (and read their docu), oh boy does that look good!
Load More Replies...There was an episode of "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" where she was studying with her boyfriend, and they never got past the part in the book that explained mitosis, it was just them saying over and over "mitosis is..." before something distracted them. I still don't know what mitosis is, and I'm 43.
Please! That man is a menace to society. Rather a big club these days, I have to admit.
Load More Replies...Presumably they had to settle, seeing as it's tough to find a photo of a bacterium laughing.
Load More Replies...I had my algebra final yesterday. I got a C (which was my goal, as I struggled with the class). But I didn't realize how hard I was holding in the stress until I nearly broke down afterwards. I managed not to cry until I got home, but the instant I walked in my front door, the dam broke and I just sat on the couch and sobbed for several minutes.
I feel for you. Algebra is a b***h. I never got the hang of it, but can do statistics just fine!
Load More Replies...The number one thing I learned in college was how to professionally fake it.
did see a 5 though, does that help? The 6 cross a round. lol
Load More Replies..."Listen... Dumbledoor, for the last time, I'm a mathamagician."
There's something about Mathematics and Physics professors - most of them are funny. Okay, usually Dad Joke funny, but still funny.
Brown-Black-Gold would, in fact, be 1Ω, but the fourth band, which is far more commonly gold than anything else, appears to be a different color than the third band. It looks more like the third band is tan, but that's not a color in that code. If it was yellow, then it would be 100kΩ.
The fourth band is tolerance, and there's no reason it couldn't be yellow. Also for what it's worth, they didn't claim it was 1 ohm exactly, maybe they are just saying the unit.
Load More Replies...They are looking at a resistor (the electronic component), that's why it's resistance. Also they are saying the name of the unit of electrical resistance, the ohm.
Load More Replies...I'm an engineer, but I applied for a SysAdmin job at my uni once (long and boring story how I got there, doesn't matter). I told them it's not my main area of knowledge, they asked "how's your google-fu?" - "pretty devent I'd say" - "alright, then you can do it". I didn't take the job and got my dream job not so long after, but they basically confirmed that half of an IT guy's job is googling :D
Load More Replies...But... doctors google stuff all the time... Source: I'm a doctor and so are my colleagues
My doctor just today was trying to figure out what is wrong with me and said 'hummn, shall we Google it' and turned his screen towards me.
Load More Replies...Was thinking about hearing this joke, but with a cow, over 30 years ago. Where does the time go.
No thanks to whatever pie you eat that looks like that
Load More Replies...My daily intake of science/nature articles, plus all the YouTube shows I subscribe to, keep me informed without the cost and pressure of getting a degree. I'm partial to the Sci-Show.
But the writing is so big... you could have just written smaller with less space...
It's not about the destination, but about the journey.
Load More Replies...I used 1 piece of paper for all my math notes in 10th grade. 1st semester, all tiny and in pencil, 2nd semester also all tiny and in pen. The cars and guitars were not as tiny
I remember an exam (physics?) where we were allowed to use both sides of the paper but we had to turn in the paper with the exam. My buddy put Maxwell's equations on one side, and a tracing of his hand on the other.
To all you gullible AGW believers, how much of our atmosphere does CO2 comprise? I knew you could not answer that important bit of data. You just believe what the media and a very few so-called "climate scientists" - whom our taxes support - tell you. Research what it means for those 100 to "agree." Anyway, the answer is .04%. Man contributes just .04% of that .04%, or .004% of our atmosphere. You dips**ts swallow anything your profs have fed you. Do some research! Read a book! Open your eyes and mind and pay attention to reality.
You do know that there are climate scientists in other countries that all said it's true, right?
Load More Replies...I remember when I was a lab assistant and the chemistry teacher asked me for ideas for experiments for the class. I came up with one that involved mixing two different compounds and then working out the percentages of each (from memory I think it involved titration but too long ago to remember exactly). Nothing wrong with the experiment per se but the margin for error was so small that even the slightest error in the process would result in ludicrous results. No wonder pretty much the whole class drew a blank.
That’s a really good experiment for teaching the importance of understanding margins of error.
Load More Replies...That's nothing. wait until you do chemistry calculations involving solubility and/or pH. Get anything wrong in those and your answer can easily be 10,00% or more off.
Was that supposed to be a 1000 or a 10? 10,00 = 10 so why not write 10 directly?
Load More Replies...There was a first year experiment where you could only complete it in time if you ran several experiments at once, lagging start times. There were lazy undergrads and then there were minority who thought about it, got stressed, adapted and then relaxed. Then there was copying of results from them.
I tried to explain this to my partner by saying "See, you're exerting a force on the floor due to gravity, but the floor is also exerting a force back up towards you to balance it out", and she thought for a moment and said "So if I wasn't here, the floor would float away?".
Load More Replies...You would think if someone is going to the trouble of making this meme that they would just check *every* word carefully first
I don't know about the Grammar (nb) Building, but the Spelling Building is just a hole in the ground. 🤭
Load More Replies...Yes! And one of those ribbon wire connector ports on the front.
Load More Replies...The physics building at the University of Michigan was sinking into the ground a few centimeters per year, until they did a very expensive fix. Whoever built it did not account for the weight of the equipment. Believe me...the irony of this being the physics building was lost on no one, even English majors taking just one semester of physics (me.)
If you get the chance check out Triumph road, Nottingham on google street view, driving along that road feels like you are in a scifi movie for a Uni campus
The person who made this needs to visit the English building on every single campus
Jack Kimble is a satirical fake congressman. https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/fictional-congressmans-x-post-about-trump-verdict-taken-seriously-2024-06-06/
He is going to be busy for a while since PI these days has 100 trillion digits
And by the time he gets there (assuming the universe doesn't end first) they'll have found many hundreds of trillions more.
Load More Replies...One of my profs gave us a problem where we had to calculate how many bullets it would take us to stop a train coming towards us (knowing the current speed and weight of the train + the weight of the bullets and the speed they fly at).
And the problems in maths books always seem to involve trains heading towards each other and probably some insect flying between the two
Yeah I was always the one pointing out the two cars driving from destination a to b are illogical for not sharing a ride and they should propably not be driving at such different speeds like there must be some speed limit if they are taking the same road. Answer: share one vehicle and both will arrive at the same time.
Illogical, but still happening in a real world (see traffic jams, in which most cars have only the driver inside).
Load More Replies...This is brilliant. But I'm surprised no one checked the chemistry message.
Haha one of my friends did this a couple years ago! They don't check the chemistry ones. One of my friends made his spell out "Skibidi" this year
Learned it in O-chem. Learned it in Biology. Learned it again in Bio-chem. Still can't remember much more than NADH is very important.
I've forgotten all about him. Didn't he used to work for Microsoft?
Serves them right for writing a badly worded question. They should have swallowed their ego and marked that answer correct
Good teacher would do just that and learn from his mistake. Crappy teacher marks it as wrong.
Load More Replies...As an Engineer I object to this. The projection is wrong! This is neither first angle nor third angle projection.
It's almost first angle, with an extra front view for good measure....
Load More Replies...I would hate that. But just ask a friend who is good at math to solve it. (Not me! Letters & numbers should never be together! Dyscalcula says math is numbers only! 😁)
lol my dyscalculia says all numbers are invalid. My brain likes to mix them up, put them in the wrong places, turn them upside down, and cast them into the fire. I can't even do accurate math WITH a calculator.
Load More Replies...Nowadays, even a half decent scientific calculator would solve that effortlessly. He is in for a shock.
And just wait until the quantum-enabled models start coming onto the market.
Load More Replies...But neither of them are water soluble and both float on water.
Log answers the question to what power you need to raise the number to get another number. For example log2 1024 = 10, so 2^10=1024
Load More Replies...There were arguments in mathematics based YT channels on this issue. Though many argued the teacher was wrong, some insisted otherwise. No general consensus reached.
Interesting. Guessing some must be instructed to follow a rule based on the order in which the numbers being multiplied appear in the initial equation.
Load More Replies...Three times four and not four times three, maybe this is how the teacher wanted it
Do you know how to do math? They are both very much correct.
Load More Replies...As a retired Calculus teacher I love this! (Except the guy should be smiling at such a helpful figure.)
That is a helpful figure! It would have been useful back then.
Load More Replies...The principal square root of x-squared is x - if x is positive or zero. If x is negative, the square root is the opposite of x - to force a positve. Using the absolute value of x takes care of both cases.
Load More Replies...In case you're wondering, 1/0 is undefined and tends toward infinity. But 1/0! = 1/1 = 1
Sure it is. As a field it uses the scientific method. The "problem" is that there is a lot of stuff published and implemented by people with psychology degrees that was never studied scientifically.
Load More Replies...Doing math is like playing the violin. Hard work will only do so much if you ain't got the talent.
The square root of (-4)-squared is not -4. (-4) squared is 16 and the square root of 16 is +4.
And whiney little conservatives, too, apparently.
Load More Replies...And whiney little conservatives, too, apparently.
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