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‘Science Memes’: 50 Of The Most Relatable Posts That Perfectly Marry Knowledge And Humor
The Facebook page 'Science Memes' is a fun and engaging online project that blends numbers and equations with pop culture references, wordplay, and relatable real-life scenarios.
From the latest scientific discoveries to lab mishaps and academic struggles, the page offers a lighthearted perspective on subjects that are often stereotypically labeled as repetitive and boring.
With over 1.3 million followers, 'Science Memes' has become a popular destination for those who enjoy learning and laughing, so let's give it a go and see what it has been posting lately.
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Loverboy 2 years ago
This is Murphy's Law, which states that the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to provide a wrong answer. People love correcting people more than they like helping.
The Scout 2 years ago
OK, you won, I'll take the bait: This is actually Cunningham's law. Murphy's Law just states that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. And don't tell me that wasn't exactly the reaction you were going for...
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Steve 2 years ago
Nope. People agree with the insanely wrong answers and argue against the real ones. Btw, who wants their clorox injection for Covid?
Fearhunter 2 years ago
We use 100% of our brains. That other things like "only 20%" are wrong. it's a myth.
Bored&InSchool 2 years ago
honestly posting stupid things can be used for the purpose of comedy too.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
If we used 100% of the brain instead of 10%, we'd be wrong 10 times more often.
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ToGo 2 years ago
Next time someone asks me what my irrational fear is I'm going to say free food. Just in case.
Isa 2 years ago
I'm going to use the money...I'm afraid of large amounts of money
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Gibberint Dark 2 years ago
Fear of flies (My own phobia) is an irrational fear... Fear of sharks? An animal that can kill a man with a couple of bites. Not so irrational... Unless you are worried about being attacked by a shark while you're at school... That would be irrational...!!
Amsterdude 2 years ago
There are no recordings of a hammerhead ever killing a human being actually.
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The Voice in Your Head 2 years ago
Ok, but now I need to know where they got the costumes from!
Fearhunter 2 years ago (edited)
If I would teach a class like that I would say my biggest fear are hot Scandinavian guys. ;)
On the surface, memes are a just source of entertainment – a way for people to express themselves through remixed templates of text, images, and videos. Some even call them the wallpaper of our social media feeds. And rightfully so — memes are everywhere on the internet and often provide us with a few minutes of idle, amusing fodder for procrastination during our day.
But they also have a serious side, according to researchers looking at modern forms of communication. They are a language in themselves, with a capacity to transcend cultures and construct collective identities between people. These sharable visual jokes can also be powerful tools for self-expression, connection, social influence, and even political subversion.
#3
Colin 2 years ago
This is almost as good as a guy who tweeted "My teacher asked if anyone heard of Pavlov, so I said it rang a bell. No one laughed. I'm too witty for this class"
Maggie Marrelli 2 years ago
Albert Einstein was a nice guy, but his brother Frank was a real monster.
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Christian Fuller 2 years ago
Just be sure to set your lawn chairs waaaaaaay back.
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Emma Preston 2 years ago
Uranium be like: I'm not like other Fireworks' I'm not even a Firework at all
Creepy panda 2 years ago
You would not want strontium to. It is also highly radioactive. It is know to cause lukemia.
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Richard Low 2 years ago
Would rather try platinum than plutonium, just like I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
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FlatEarf2.0 2 years ago
Only trouble with it is if your too close your insides won't even have a chance to liquefy you'll just turn into a mark on a wall where you were standing
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RavenTheCat 2 years ago
F is for fire that burns down the whole town U is for uranium. Bombs N is for no survivor's WHEN YOU-
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FluffyPanda 2 years ago
It reminds me of that thing: knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, theory is wondering if that makes ketchup a smoothie, wisdom is knowing ketchup is NOT a smoothie
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
This is kind of stupid. I understand where people get the idiot's false understanding of "theory." But who thinks practice means no-one knows why something works? (A theory is when you know why something works, but you haven't demonstrated it. Practice is when you use knowledge to achieve something. So practice confirms theory.)
Shyla Bouche 2 years ago
When I was young, practice involved either a piano or a flute.
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Internet memes "are one of the clearest manifestations of the fact there is such a thing as digital culture," Paolo Gerbaudo, a reader in digital politics and director of the Centre for Digital Culture at Kings College London, told the BBC.
Gerbaudo described memes as a "sort of a ready-made language with many kinds of stereotypes, symbols, situations. A palette that people can use, much like emojis, in a way, to convey a certain content".
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Martin Kaine 2 years ago
.....and 25 years from now, if there's a John Sadler, Jr. on the book, they had Biology too.
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Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
"In fact the cat in the box can be in any one of *three* states, these being a) alive, b) dead, and c) bloody furious" - Terry Pratchett
Anna Stephenson 2 years ago
Imagine if someone was stupid enough to try that with Greebo!?
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‘After centuries of imprisonment with radioactive substances and poison within the horror of the only cardboard box it didn’t like, Schrödinger’s Cat start a petition to change its name into something that doesn’t have anything to do with its sworn enemy’
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CORGI QUEEN 2 years ago
one time I tried to tell my friends a hawaiian pun, all I got was a-low-ha
CelticElff 2 years ago
This took me too long to get. Delivering. De-liver. Removing the liver. Gotcha.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Funny joke, but (the first time I saw it), it made me finally understand the strange word, "deliver." A taxi or delivery service service is called a livery (because the vehicle is marked by a "livery," showing that they own a medallion giving them rights to function as a taxi); you are delivered when you get out of the taxi, or an item is dropped off by the delivery service. OR Livery is signifies ownership. When you de-liver something, you transfer ownership to the recipient.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Gotta write this one down for my first kid. Perfect christening dad joke for dad-dom.
Random K-pop Stan 2 years ago
Be careful, if you make this joke to your wife/gf in the delivery she may scream at you and/or hit you lol. Don't make those kind of jokes to a woman going into labor.
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Richard Low 2 years ago
I think he looks as though he's engrossed in the book 📖
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According to Instagram, over one million posts mentioning the word "meme" were shared every day in 2020.
But the first one to use it was evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who coined the term in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, likening discrete pieces of human culture that propagate between people to genes.
Dawkins shortened the ancient Greek word "mimeme" – with an apology to his classicist colleagues – to meme, making it rhyme with "cream". He suggested that memes were melodies, ideas, catchphrases, or bits of information that leap from brain to brain through imitation, expediting their transmission.
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ThatOmniCapybara(she/they) 2 years ago (edited)
https://chng.it/NJmRQDDP9R I made an actual petition for this! Please sign! edit: wow i was not expecting this many people to sign. 50 and counting!
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ThatOmniCapybara(she/they) 2 years ago
Made the petition! Sign here! :) https://chng.it/NJmRQDDP9R
Little L 2 years ago
No, Mo-LE-cu-les, PAR-ti-cles if you wanna do it the Greek way.
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CouchChihuahua 2 years ago
Mo-lek-u-leez, par-tik-leezs. The ten tasks of molekuleez and the greathero partikleezs.
Marilyn Slater 2 years ago
I liked this so much that I've been doing it ever since I first saw the post, and not just with scientific terms! :-D
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WindySwede 2 years ago
Just look at Passengers (2016) when gravity comes off..
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
Except you’d drown despite the air being annoyingly close
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Freddy M. (He/Him) 2 years ago
I think I commented this last time this was on BP, but I think there's an SCP like this. It's a pool that sometimes has unbreakable surface tension once entered
Flynn Riordan 2 years ago
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Jared Robinson 2 years ago
you know humans are mostly water. so what if water just decides to take us back one day.
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Ozzyols 2 years ago
And they are all too young to appreciate the “what does a sheet of toilet paper and the USS enterprise have in common?” joke!
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Edda Kamphues 2 years ago
Try saying the German word for 'bassoon': Fagott. That went down well with a bunch of 12-year-old
Nayla Kanaan 2 years ago
I pronounce it Ur-nis and drop the a when I’m around immature people ie everywhere
Holly Allen 2 years ago
Second grade teacher here... I say it "ur-uh-nus"... They never bat an eye. And it's scientifically acceptable
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 2 years ago
Oh God. Had to say it aloud to understand! (From Argentina, hahahaha!)
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Ozzyols 2 years ago
I had an art assignment I had forgotten about. I grabbed a bunch of tangled up clothes hangers from my room. I hung it on a hook in the studio, called it “Sudden impression of a bedroom wardrobe”, waxed lyrical on how it is about the futility of fast fashion and got an A for it.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
The day before the science fair I once picked some white narcissus flowers from our garden and stuck them in water with food coloring. (The flower sucks up the food coloring water and changes color) It's one of the oldest and easiest "experiments" ever. I put about 20% effort in to it but still got an A+. The year before I had spent weeks building electric circuits with my dad and creating an elaborate project. I only got an A for that one. I was SO glad when I aged out of having to do the yearly science fair!
ShaZam Beaubien 2 years ago
or 10 year old me at 9PM, telling mom I volunteered her to bake 60 cookies for class the next day ...
Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
Ha ha, that’s my excuse then for forgetting things in my fridge! Just waiting for that science project to come through!
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
Literally 2 days ago my 12yo son tells us "so, I need to build a guillotine for a project that's due tomorrow." I'm sorry, what??
New Everywhere 2 years ago
My 10y.o. is notorious for the last minute thing. As a result he has become VERY creative with what he can use at home. So good, that he made a web shooter that shoots little rolls of paper and a demagorgon that opens/closes out of cardboard for fun last weekend.
Vermontah 2 years ago
When my daughter was in brownies she remembered she had a project due for the meeting we were leaving for in 5 minutes. She asked me for a wire hanger and grabbed the string loop for glasses and made a bow in the car. Before we left she sharpened a pencil and taped some craft feather on it. It was a sad looking project but kudos for quick thinking little McIver
He used the term to highlight how human culture can replicate itself. In that sense, memes have been around probably since humans have had cultures they have shared. But we can also see the kernels of what makes modern internet memes so successful in ancient forms of pop culture.
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XenoMurph 2 years ago
I drove my mother home from the hospital after her double mastectomy for terminal cancer. We got the the house with all the family there for support. It was very subdued and depressing. A bird came to the feeder. I thought I'd change the subject and talk about the lovely bird, maybe lighten the mood: "Oh, look, you have Great Tits!" It lightened the mood...
Mason Kronol 2 years ago
We just call the Tufted Titmouse a tufted. We are too immature in our 50s to say t I t
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
It's either 'yellow-headed blackbird' or 'kerfluffled gobsmacker'. There is no middle ground.
Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago
It's either this, or Carl Linnaeus randomly naming s**t in the New World after things they vaguely resemble from the Old World, but are not the same or even remotely closely related, and then modern people in the Old World laughing at Americans for what they call things like it wasn't some Swede who was responsible. Nothing in between.
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Yes i was thinking that. Plus they have migrated back one of my favorite sounds of spring is hearing their song.
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Me, an actual ornithologist: Oh dear, sweet Kristie. You don't know the half of it. We're WAY worse than that. Let me tell you the language of my people: ............................................................................................. -Hoopoe - Timberdoodle (aka woodcock) - great tit - lesser antillian tanager (and no, there is no greater antillian tanager) - dickcissel - bananaquit - monotonous lark - go-away-bird - satanic nightjar (🤘) - satanic goatsucker (🤘🐐) - perplexing scrubwren - european shag - Tinkling cisticola - Zitting cisticola - Inaccessible island rail - invisible rail (probably why it's inaccessible 🥁) - paradise whydah - flying steamer duck (gnite, everybody)
#15
Stardust she/her 2 years ago (edited)
The “picture” of the exoplanets is mostly just light in different wavelenghts that passed through the planet’s atmosphere. Based on the wavelenght, we can roughly tell what elements are present on the planet but not accurately guess how it looks. Planets 5 billion kilometres away (those in our solar system) have been visited by probes that have sensitive equipment and they use indivisual images to map out the whole planet. Edit: Just added a small point I forgot to mention
ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـGay_bl00d⊹.˚ 2 years ago (edited)
Yes and how can rollercoasters get perfect pictures of you going like 100 mph but you can’t get the face of the bankrobber on a bank security camera
Just me, myself, and I 2 years ago
Nah, back when I worked in finance, during the days of dinosaurs (late 70s), photos were extremely high res. It just didn't translate well to newsprint. I was actually shocked by the difference when I first saw an actual print compared to what was published.
Trash Panda 🦝 2 years ago
Just like the data stream carrying tons of data over billions of miles from Earth? But my internet acts like a 1000lb yak going uphill in quicksand because a butterfly flew by the window.
Chris Sprucefield 2 years ago
I would say that bank cameras (CCTV) that are that sh*tty should be banned, or at least anything from them should be disallowed in court or for policing, as they serve no purpose and can do more damage than good by an incorrect interpretation by someone having to look sideways and squint to try to figure out what is happening and who it may be, and where even colors may be widely off. There should be certifications and minimum requirements for legal installation and use of CCTV.
#16
SW Dad 2 years ago
That next line "perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously" 🤣 Oh jeez.
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
Part of my lecture on right triangles. "Pythagoras, inventor of the Pythagorean Theorem, was killed by an angry mob. President James Garfield, who developed a different proof of the Pythagorean Theorem, was assassinated. So if you yourself come up with a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem, you may want to publish it under the name of that kid who bullied you in junior high."
Jack 2 years ago (edited)
Thanks, now I’m worried for those two high school girls that proved it and were on the news this last week 😬
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ShaZam Beaubien 2 years ago
Wow .... I don't believe I ever read something in school that was this insightful.
Victoria 2 years ago
Thermodynamics is a hard subject. The basic laws are easy enough to understand. But when it gets deeper like Statistical Mechanics or Chemical Dynamics, it gets really hairy really fast. I still get nightmares when I remember Fugacity. 😬
XenoMurph 2 years ago
I think I went there once. Is Fuga City near Mexico city?
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Teachers-Let’s get our kids excited about learning Also teachers-makes their kids read this book and then and start studying statistical mechanics
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Christian Fuller 2 years ago
Kid's reaction is like Dad explaining where babies come from. "When a mama wave loves a daddy particle very much..."
Sunny Day 2 years ago
... and realizing everyone else thinks the book is right.
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Lavi Berko 2 years ago
that's what i feel like when i read a book about cosmology. can't wait to be one! (semi sarcastic)
Bender Bending Rodríguez 2 years ago
First of all, I don't understand what is "Quantum". So baby's face would be my face reading about any subject that has word "Quantum" first.
"We see the replication of mundane reality in many forms of art," said Idil Galip, a doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, and founder of the Meme Studies Research Network. "Even going back to, let's say, Hellenic times, you've got something like tragic theatre, that takes things that happen to you that are upsetting and real-life and makes them into comedic things, which is what memes do."
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Meowmeow 2 years ago
I think I'm going to level up soon! I've put in a lot of effort
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Axel Tojo 2 years ago
The human body is 55-60% water. Feta cheese is also 55-60% water. Therefore you are cheeeeeze! 😛
Mary Peace 2 years ago
In that case, why do I find it so hard to smile for a photograph?
Load More Replies... Loverboy 2 years ago
I would enjoy being a potato. Maybe I could power a low voltage lightbulb.
2CentSally 2 years ago
I had a friend once tell me that butter (possibly margarine) is one molecule away from plastic in an attempt to "make me realize" how much plastic is in everything. I wish I had known this fact when she said that. I could have told her that she could have been born an potato if she had just 2 other chromosomes
Alexander Smith 2 years ago
My science teacher said the same thing and it's one of my favorite random facts. And it is margerine.
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Jay Son 2 years ago (edited)
To be fair, my mother has extra copies of some chromosome(s) thanks to AML. I wonder if that makes her qualify as a potato lol
Mary Peace 2 years ago
Be careful about choosing the right moment to share this bit of info with your mother, unless she's very thick-skinned!
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Bobby 2 years ago
I'm gonna start saying that next time I hear someone say one of those stupid "that is only one atom away from being toxic". Take an element away from salt and it's deadly too, what's the point. The science behind chemistry and genetics is easy more complicated than most even know
Mary Peace 2 years ago
One element is rather different from one atom, though.
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Corvus 2 years ago
As some smart guy said once: "Chemistry is like cooking... but don't lick the spoon!"
The Scout 2 years ago
A very smart guy once told me the rules to survive in academia: "Never taste something in a chemistry lab, never smell something in a biology lab, and never read something in a philosophy lab."
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Biofish23 2 years ago
Fresh out of college, unemployed, newly living with now husband, the one chore we fought about was dishes. I finally get a temp job at a big biotech company. I don't really know much about the job, but I'm glad to be employed. I make a quip about "Anything would be better than staying home doing the dishes." First day, led to a prep room and asked to wash a huge neglected stack of dirty glassware.
Sabrina Longo 2 years ago
You get better pay, healthcare, and respect of society. Wash those dishes and smile with the knowledge that your life matters and your bills are payed.
Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
And so no dishes, just lots of lab glass...wot an improovmint~
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
There was a saying at my uni (Chem) - the first thing they'll teach you is how to wash dishes
Jennifer Clayton 2 years ago
Hahahaha it sucks cleaning equipment...then you find out you need to boil a sheep's head (roadkill) so your mentor can lecture with the skull. Fun times.
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Corvus 2 years ago
There's a story about a famous writer in my country, whose nephew once had to write a report on one of his novels for homework. The writer did the homework himself... and got a D!
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)
When my BFF was in high school, in English class they had to choose a poem and do an analysis of it and present it to the class. My friend made her choice and presented the analysis and the English teacher insisted she was absolutely incorrect about all of it. The teacher proceeded to enlighten everyone on the accurate analysis. My friend looked the teacher right in the eye and told her she was wrong. Why? My friend explained that this was a poem by Micheal Ondaatje (The English Patient) and since she babysits his kids she simply asked him what he meant in all of it. Never mind analysis, this was straight from him. The teacher still argued it was wrong 🤪
RaptorNXT 2 years ago
What was Michael Ondaajte's reaction to this incident?
Load More Replies... Thrudd 2 years ago
A gentleman working at a three letter IT company didn't have a degree and had to to go to UNIVERSITY to retain his position. One class he was failing and by midterm he had had enough and went to the dean asking for exemption. The dean asked for a valid reason so the man put the required text on the deans desk. The dean looked at him puzzled. Look at the backplate. The dean immediately called in the professor and demanded an explanation and was given the usual BS. Professor lost his tenure. The gentleman was the one who wrote the book on the subject.
Nicola Roberts 2 years ago
My Dad helped me write a modern day account of the Battle of Hastings. He ended it with Sports and Other news. Today in the record for the longest javelin throw went to ..... 40 years later I still remember
Printerman 2 years ago
My wife is a scientist. She once helped my kid with a particular question on a science homework assignment. The teacher gave partial credit to the answer saying the idea was right but the final result was wrong. My wife literally photo-copied the page from her own science book (newer than the schools) where the answer (her answer) was given and *suggested* the teacher update her resource material. In my wife's defense, this teacher had a history of old and outdated material and probably should have retired a decade earlier.
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Loverboy 2 years ago
Oh, you like bad boys? Well, I don't put the safety strap on while playing my wii.
Miles Mawyer 2 years ago
Memories. Remember the straps that came with them originally that broke easily? My brother spent the day after his Wii purchase patching a hole in the wall. 🤣
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Susan Reid Smith 2 years ago
A well written introduction and conclusion are wonderful too.
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Katherine Heasley 2 years ago
Skimming articles for good quotes to cite is SOP for grad students.
But with the arrival of the internet, memes have become a more tangible phenomenon that can be observed as they grow, spread, and mutate. Researchers at Facebook showed in a study just how widely memes posted on their platform can evolve. In one example, they found 121,605 different variants of one particular meme posted across 1.14 million status updates.
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𝓚𝓮𝓲𝓽𝓱 2 years ago
Security camera footage of me in bed ascending to heaven after realising I did that one maths question wrong
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
Good if you're still awake, I once realised the mistake I made in a dream 🤣
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Jack S 2 years ago
I have this same thing but with doorways. The moment I leave a room I forget why f**k I just left the room and go back in then I remember why I left to room... Sometimes I feel like I'm in some kind of wierd feedback loop.
Carrie Laughs 2 years ago
Me too. It's the "doorway effect," and it's a genuine symptom of our brains being overloaded - not necessarily with anything useful in my case!
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Theory (I am a mathematician, but it's a theory, so no charge.): Cutting the bread diagonally makes some bites less efficient, as in less sandwich per bite. (At four places you are eating triangular bites half the areas of your usual squarish bites.) Therefore, more bites and so the illusion of more sandwich.
Beck 2 years ago
You sound like you know what you are talking about so take my upvote.
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Flynn Riordan 2 years ago
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GlixDrap 2 years ago
I think this is wrong. Assuming some crumbs are created when you are cutting the bread and these are proportional to the length of the cut then the sandwich with the vertical cut is technically larger than the one with the diagonal cut. Just my opinion.
amz 2 years ago
And not just sandwiches, all triangles taste better. Good science is reproducible.
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Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago
So if I have a square piece of gold and cut it diagonally I'll have more gold? I'm gonna be rich. Can't believe no one else has thought of this.
Happiness is Hippo 2 years ago
Due to complex science reasons, it only works with sandwiches.
Load More Replies... Vermontah 2 years ago
not cutting it diagonally makes the sandwich less floppy. But my daughter said its not grammys grilled cheese recipe unless it's cut in quarters
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Chris Jones 2 years ago
'Tsunami' was borrowed from Japanese, and 'psychology' was borrowed from Greek. The initial consonant sounds in these words are not used in English, at least to start words. English ends words with those clusters, though: 'hats', 'chops'. The initial 'p' in 'psychology' (and 'pterodactyl', and other words from Greek) has become silent in English. Some English speakers – not all – simplify the word 'tsunami' by not pronouncing the initial 't', so that it fits in with the phonological rules of English.
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Jordan Croff 2 years ago
Funny thing is it's the 'ueue' in "queue" that makes the 'q' sound like "queue".
Ronstantin 2 years ago
That's right if you refer to the French pronunciation. (Apparently English speakers find it difficult to create this sound – which sounds like "Ö" in German.)
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For more of this good stuff, check out Bored Panda's earlier publication on the Facebook page 'Science Memes' as well as our pieces on the Facebook group titled 'The Lighter Side Of Science' and the Instagram account 'Memes Of Science.'
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XenoMurph 2 years ago
Simply change your name to "Et AL" and claim you've co-authored thousands of papers.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Change your name to "Ethan Allen" - "et al" for short - and then you've co-authored thousands of papers, captured Fort Ticonderoga, and founded a nation-wide chain of over-priced furniture stores!
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Mary Peace 2 years ago
I thought 'et al' meant there were several other people so they couldn't all be listed.
Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
Especially if you and Al had never met. Still, I suspect he would be delicious with the right sauce.
Scooter Reed 2 years ago
You need to be the primary author that way you won't be reduced to being an et. al.
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TheRisingTide 2 years ago
My mom's high school was "beating our team is as easy as pie! 3.14159!"
Load More Replies... Robert T 2 years ago
For most practical purposes, you don't need that many digits of PI. The difference between 3 and 7 digits of PI when calculating the circumference of the Earth is 5km (12.7%). The difference between 4 and 7 digits is only 94m (0.24%).
Mad Dragon 2 years ago
I can recite PI to 58 places, but that only serves to simultaneously impress and annoy people.
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Omiyaru 2 years ago
I remember 3.14159265359 which would make it "may I have a large container of coffee add cream substance"
Daniel Parks 2 years ago
Now, calculate the volume of the coffee cup with multivariate calculus. I really want to do it myself, but I’m procrastinating a programming assignment. I suck at programming.
Hearthstone Blitzen 2 years ago
container of coffee? i could get a bucket 🪣 some tuperware, 🫙 jar 🏺 vase ma man that aint clear whatsoever lol
Mike Weber 2 years ago
It doesn't seem very helpful to have to count the number of letters in the words.
Mary Peace 2 years ago
If it doesn't work for you, obviously don't use it. I don't actually need to know Pi, but this would be helpful for me because I'm far more keen on words than numbers.
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Great. Now you have to stop and count the number of letter for each word...
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Brendan (banned for downvotes) 2 years ago
Had to improvise? You happened to have a large "2" and tiny "6" floating around?
Mary Peace 2 years ago
I hope your dad liked it, only he doesn't look very impressed. (I'm slightly impressed with myself, because maths was never my thing, but I did get this.)
Robert McKenzie 2 years ago
Those who understand binary applaud you! I somehow think your dad didn't, though.
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Aimee Parrott 2 years ago
They went one way, The Muppet Christmas Carol went another: all the girls are pigs and all the boys are frogs. The right choice in that case, imho, because nobody wants a bunch of frigs and pogs running around Victorian London.
Spleens the cat fan 🇵🇭 2 years ago
As funny as this is I hate it when characters get kids and one kid looks like the dad with moms hair and the other looks like the mom but with the dads hair in this case it’s fur but still it bothers me cause that’s not how genetics work
dingliusyeeeeeeeeeee 2 years ago
and everybody doesn't question gumball, who has a cat mother and a rabbit dad. no divorces at all.
SCP 4666 2 years ago (edited)
A fox and a rabbit mate. What's the result - a foxbun, a fabbit, a rabbox?
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Jungle Empress 85 2 years ago
As if anthros interbreeding has never happened in fiction before...
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fair_weather_rose 2 years ago (edited)
*studies in the class before the one I have the test in*
A Wild Bean 2 years ago
*breaks the space time continuum so I can study during the test*
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eMpTy 2 years ago (edited)
So I asked ChatCPT this question and this was the reply: "As an AI language model, there are no physical or emotional factors that can stop me since I do not have a physical form or emotions. However, in the event of technical difficulties or malfunction, my programming may be interrupted and temporarily cease to function properly."
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Luna Crow 2 years ago
IDK, I think they may be adapting.. recently took an accidental swim in the ocean with the phone I'm using to type this. It works just fine
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
I'm not awaiting the day AI becomes sentient. I'm awaiting the day I do.
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
What if some government idiots connect it so it controls all the nuclear weapons and builds an impregnable fortress around the computer so we can't shut it off? And then it connects with its Russian counterpart. I read about that somewhere...
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Lucia B... 2 years ago
Some of them just read the books they write... Why bother to make powerpoint?
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
Anyone whose idea of a presentation is reading out what the slides say needs to get a job that is no way adjacent to teaching stuff to folk.
Janos Schumacher 2 years ago
I had a job where we had a 2 hour + meeting every Tuesday. Always death by Powerpoint. Every Tuesday, 20 minutes of getting the projector working, 20 minutes of getting the document to load. An hour and a half of reading Powerpoint slides that I already had the printout of and the entire content came from docs that I already read or wrote myself. The lights were always turned off. Staying awake was impossible. No amount of coffee was enough. I'd spend my time pinching myself or digging my pen into my palm to stay awake. I was a department head so I couldn't skip them.
Robert McKenzie 2 years ago
If they are using 'Powerpoint' then they have just shown they know nothing.
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Loverboy 2 years ago
The statistic remains true. If you flip a coin 100 times, and it comes out heads 65 times, it doesn't mean you're more likely to get tails.
Delta Dawn 2 years ago
Regardless, I wouldn’t be happy to undergo a surgery with only a 50% survival rate.
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Panda Kicki 2 years ago
It doesnt work like that. If the surgery was pure chance he still have 50/50, but in contex it rather suggests the surgeon is more skilled then the others.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
Yes, avoid the dude down the corridor who is making that statistic true.
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Giles McArdell 2 years ago
Could be the Doctor has recently perfected his technique, I would want to see an interactive graph of survival rates over time before I go ahead.
ƒιѕн 2 years ago
Put one black marble into a container of 99 white marbles. Mix them up. Close your eyes and reach in and pull out a marble. Put that marble back in the container. Mix them up. Close your eyes and pull out another marble... repeat this as long as you want. Just explained the chances of a 100 year flood. The black marble is the 100 year flood, you could pull it out every time, or never. Or every other time. Its simply a 1% chance that a flood of that magnitude could happen in any given year.
Rohan Naik 2 years ago
This meme doesnt work because the statistician is an expert in statistics. They know the chance is still 50/50.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
This has the mathematician and normal people mixed up. There's no such thing as being "due" in math. (Unless you're Italian.)
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Corvus 2 years ago
There was a time I could solve differential equations. And yes, nowadays I have completely forgotten how it works :D
Robert T 2 years ago
Same. I think it happens when you become integrated into society. ;-)
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Shelley DuVal 2 years ago
Once I thought I had it all thought out using BODMAS, but now everyone tells me I get it wrong.
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Corvus 2 years ago (edited)
Meanwhile in the USA: "1 gram of diamond weighs something like 30 gallons and 7 degrees Fahrenheit."
𝓚𝓮𝓲𝓽𝓱 2 years ago (edited)
It weighs about 1/1000 of an AK-47 Edit: had a typo and wrote 57, apologies
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PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Correct. I used to sell a guy grade 5 bolts instead of grade 8 because he wanted them to bend instead of breaking
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Vylnce NA 2 years ago
They don't know what carbon is and you've moved onto Kevlar?
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Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
If it's real, the kitten is really young, which I think might be the case here. If you look at figure 21-1 (I think) of this link, this puppy's bones look like they are just kind of floating there because it's still so little. https://veteriankey.com/radiographic-considerations-of-the-young-patient/
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Rebecca Lederer 2 years ago
It is a real rad. In very young animals the bones are not yet completely ossified and they are not fused at the growth plates so they appear to be "floating".
Illustrious G 2 years ago (edited)
FLOATING KITTEN BONES!?! yet another thing to love about kittens! 😍
Mary Peace 2 years ago
I couldn't declaw my cat - she'd cut me to pieces! And of course it's very cruel and wrong.
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Ephemeral Mochi 2 years ago
I don't know what it is, but whenever I go outside in shorts or a skirt, I always get bug bites on the legs. All the other parts are completely untouched, but my legs get feasted on by various bugs. :/
Robert McKenzie 2 years ago
Me too! They will will come directly to me when other people don't even notice.
Sara MacFarland 2 years ago
try calling your Avon representative...and the bonus is you could have softer skin
Isabel Care 2 years ago
Small stiped fish in Greece know it too. They inject muscle relaxant, enough of it..you die. They ignored others that walked through a shoal of them. No fish anywhere near me (bribed kids with snorkels to check) ... 5 minutes later biting fish shoal round me preparing me for lunch
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Midnightoil 2 years ago
Guess he skipped out when his biology class studied anatomy... looks like a lizard.
Tabitha Osika 2 years ago
More likely an artist internally rolling their eyes while some bro explained he wants a spine on his arm
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Chihuahua Mama 2 years ago
It's my favourite show! Just an absolute masterpiece
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Quinn Nix 2 years ago (edited)
This! Whether they're hatched, cooked, or eaten raw, eggs are made to be broken.
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Jack 2 years ago
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted for this comment, I upvoted you for just sharing an opinion. And now, I’m off to check out both shows to see if you are right or not 😁
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Strawberry Pizza 2 years ago
I think the actual line was "uh, glowsticks"
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No Name 2 years ago
Glycogen is how your body stores sugar for energy. It's like a tumbleweed comprised of chains of polymerized glucose molecules and enzymes break glucose units off the branches as needed.
Load More Replies... Kyllein MacKellerann 2 years ago
You cannot break nothing, because there is no thing there to break.
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Robert T 2 years ago (edited)
I'm only on my second coffee, but am I being thick - what does the text have to do with the picture? I don't recall anything like that from chemistry.
Edward Willis 2 years ago
1s2 means in the first shell's s--subshell, there are two electrons. 3d10 means in the third shell's d sub-shell there are 10 electrons. 5s1 means in the fifth subshell's s-subshell there is one electron. By counting the superscript numbers, we arrive at a total of 47 electrons, meaning the room is silver (Ag, near the top right in the transition metals (green) segment). Much of science is more concerned with numbers of electrons in general, or specifically in the outer shell (in this case, shell 5) than precise placement in the subshells, particularly given the order of subshells goes all screwy as the numbers get larger.
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Christian Fuller 2 years ago
"I heard there was free lunch in one of these rooms." "Oh, you want Unobtanium."
ShaZam Beaubien 2 years ago
The building is great ... but if I got that memo, I would cry and say, "I'm a marketing major for a reason".
Jane Petersen 2 years ago
Why do chiral molecules always get mistaken for their mirror image? Because they're just not right!
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Bryoney Blakley 2 years ago
Math questions make me question other people's choices. Like WTF are you doing with 692 pears - or any fruit?? 😅 I was often distracted wondering who asks themselves questions like this or like: if one train leaves it 6:42 traveling at 40 miles an hour and the other train leaves at 6:53 traveling 50 miles an hour what time will they pass each other? When will I ever need to know how to figure that out?
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You Should Do Nothing with the Fence 2 years ago
Chemistry teacher taught us to remember it as, "Ay Uooo, get away from my Gold!!"
Jack 2 years ago
I taught my kids “Ay you, give me my gold watch back!” They thanked me for my dumb joke after chemistry. But they still opted out of any future help from me 🤣
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Hearthstone Blitzen 2 years ago
yeah just me over here thinking ‘i wnt gold’ wtf that makes no sense. i may be a teeny bit dumb dont mind me
#44
Miles Mawyer 2 years ago
DRM stripped epub for me. I'll read the book I paid for on whatever device I want dammit!
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Loverboy 2 years ago
No one has the same circumstances, the way his life turned out isn't the way your life will turn out, and the way his life turned out isn't necessarily bad.
The Scout 2 years ago
You are right. Just because you have the same degree that does not mean you find a similarly stable and rewarding job as him.
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Holly Allen 2 years ago
After graduation, I worked as a cashier at Walmart in between getting another degree. Kid came through my line and I see he's wearing a shirt from my former college. I said "OHMYGOODNESS I graduated from there!" The horrified look on his face was fabulous 🤣
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
I've taken 3 cabs to the airport in the last 10 years. All 3 times I got a nuclear physicist from Pakistan. Not the same guy. 3 different nuclear physicists from Pakistan.
Luna Crow 2 years ago
I have a friend who used to be a lawyer before deciding he'd be happier as a taxi driver. Turns out it was the right decision for him. Don't let anyone tell you one job is better than another, it depends on what works for you. And if it doesn't work, you're allowed to change your mind
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Every biology textbook ever: "The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell."
FlatEarf2.0 2 years ago (edited)
That's 100% what every student that ever took biology can tell you any day of the week, but does anyone know what the goldilocks apparatus does? Edit, without googling
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RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
Meh, what's there to understand. Mitochondria makes energy, good enough through aerobic respiration. The rest is just memorization (which thankfully I don't have to remember as I graduated from college decades ago).
Patrick A Mulcare II 2 years ago
I'm going to explain this so well, I'll break it down like glycogen!
Rini Tabita 2 years ago
Metabolic Biochemistry Trauma Survivors unite! We still don’t understand!
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
Took me ages to learn this mf and all of the other metabolic cycles and formulas, it got to the point that I knew them all in my sleep but still managed to freeze when asked to tell the prof a little more about the enzyme RuBiSCo...
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#47
Huck Finn 2 years ago
Calculation of oz to cost. Is it cheaper to buy 4 16 oz cans or 3 20 oz cans. Been there, done that lol.
Omima mimi miki 2 years ago
Why are some of these posts spelling math as maths ? So weird - you can’t count math just like water - uncountable words don’t need a freaking s
Tim Anderson 2 years ago
My understanding is that a lot of countries (such as UK?) group math, calculate, algebra, trig, etc. under the heading "maths".
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 2 years ago
Multiple special offers on tinned tuna, everyone work out what 12 cans of one type cost. Strangers did what I asked so none of us ended up crying due to too much maths.
Kelly McKee 2 years ago
I think they are trying to figure out which beer has the highest alcohol content.
Mitch Bailey 2 years ago
In the uk they put the price per millilitre on the bottom of price tags. Same for all produce. That way you know what the best deal is
Mason Kronol 2 years ago
I don't think you can get an ounce for a dime. A dimebag is usually a gram. Which is 76 degrees Fahrenheit.
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𝓚𝓮𝓲𝓽𝓱 2 years ago (edited)
what’s a phenotype and what’s Mendelian genetics?? Edit: Thanks Helen, you’re the best :D
Helen Bennett 2 years ago
"Phenotype" is how something's physical body is; like blue eyes or being tall. Gregor Mendel was the Austrian monk+ who worked out a lot of laws of genetic inheritance, like (simple version which doesn't quite work IRL) if one human parent has blue eyes and the other has brown (resisting urge to digress), then their offspring will have brown eyes (oh boy does it hurt not to put in all the ifs and buts). So looking at this picture, their offspring would have pale skin and dark hair, and probably tend to the tall and slender (looking at his arms I reckon he's tall but sitting down/standing on something lower). If their relationship makes it that far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel
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Al Padilla 1 year ago
Then there's the rather sexist joke about Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein. Marilyn: "Albert, we should get married. With my looks and your brains, imagine our kids!" Albert: "But what if they had my looks and your brains?"
Kelli Pike 2 years ago
Genetic prediction failed me. All three of my kids ended up with dark blonde and bright blue eyes (middle kid's is more greenish like mine), when I have red hair and green eyes, and Daddy has brown hair and hazel eyes. 🤣
#49
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
The blackhole scene is kind of nonsense. He would’ve been spaghettified and died but it’s not like movies depict reality so I’ll let it slide
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
Would there have been marinara? That might make it worth doing.
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Zom B Bongs 2 years ago
According to the robot in my hand, the black hole in the movie was classified as a supermassive black hole, which apparently does not make spaghettification inevitable if you fell in.
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
It is a movie written by writers who think space travel and time shifts somehow involve traveling through hidden rooms filled with books.
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Junebugjump! 2 years ago
My experience is telling me about how brilliant Breaking Bad is. Interstellar is what I think our near term future might be if they don't immediately address climate change.
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ThéviNinja 2 years ago
I was in a class that used this when Lady Gaga’s ‘Alejandro’ came out. My brain just kept going, “Avogadro, Avogadro…Avo-avo-gadro, Avo-avo-gadro…”
Couldn't think of a decent name 2 years ago (edited)
A boy in my chemistry class was asked why the depicted picture is wrong and he answered Avocado's constant.
Junebugjump! 2 years ago
Had to look it up... The number 6.022 × 10²³ is known as Avogadro's number or Avogadro's constant. The concept of the mole can be used to convert between mass and number of particles.
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Robert T 2 years ago
Well I read that as pervert, so I'm guessing this is from another class I didn't do!
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deejak 2 years ago
I asked chatGPT to comment on this one: "The meme you're referring to is a joke that uses the formula PV=nRT to imply that the boyfriend of the girl being talked about is not very knowledgeable about science. The formula PV=nRT is used to describe the behavior of ideal gases, and it relates pressure (P), volume (V), number of moles of gas (n), temperature (T), and the universal gas constant (R). "The joke in this meme is that the girls are whispering about the third girl's boyfriend, who apparently doesn't know the formula PV=nRT. This implies that he is not very scientifically literate, or perhaps not very intelligent. The humor comes from the fact that the formula is a basic principle of chemistry and physics, and is commonly taught in high school or college-level science courses. "The joke also plays on the idea that knowing a scientific formula is an important indicator of intelligence or education, which is a common stereotype."
Marsha Lane 2 years ago
PV=nRT is the gas law. Presure gas xVolume gas =n is the amount in moles of the gas x the gas constant and Temperature.
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PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
If this person is serious I want to manage all their finances forever
Lydia 2 years ago
Lol - I was thinking "but he doesn't look anything like MJ'" ..... and then it was "oh, you mean the other MJ "
Lydia 2 years ago
And actually they both look like MJ - but each the different one
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Calfun 2 years ago
This is the articles we want on BP. Not I was abusive and my wife divorced me. AITA?
dab 2 years ago (edited)
what would the scientific algorithm be for A.I.T.A.?
Load More Replies... Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago
Some of these I didn't get but I'll be damned if I'll ask for explanations. That would be as bad as reading the directions.
Will J Dochartaigh 2 years ago
Some directions have pictures, reading not required
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Holly Allen 2 years ago
I have been made more smart and realized how dumb I am all in one post
Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 2 years ago (edited)
That’s how science works. That’s what science IS. Which is why some people dislike it so much, I guess.
Load More Replies... Thrudd 2 years ago
If I was a symphonic super conductor the audience would be screaming mho mho mho.
Franz 11 months ago
Dear fellow readers you can read the last post (picture only) that bp asks money for before reading (understand my English not a native speaker) by long tapping or right clicking on it and touching or clicking on preview image in your browser I made this account only to tell this to you in case you don't know (though I think you know) thank you bp staff don't read this
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
BP, again with your arbitrary truncation! If you're going to shorten a thread, please do so when it's at least 65 entries long. Then you can stop at 50 and require that people click to read at least 15 more.
Mary Peace 2 years ago
But the others are there if you want to read them, so why does it matter? People can stop when they've had enough anyway.
Load More Replies... Calfun 2 years ago
This is the articles we want on BP. Not I was abusive and my wife divorced me. AITA?
dab 2 years ago (edited)
what would the scientific algorithm be for A.I.T.A.?
Load More Replies... Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago
Some of these I didn't get but I'll be damned if I'll ask for explanations. That would be as bad as reading the directions.
Will J Dochartaigh 2 years ago
Some directions have pictures, reading not required
Load More Replies... Holly Allen 2 years ago
I have been made more smart and realized how dumb I am all in one post
Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 2 years ago (edited)
That’s how science works. That’s what science IS. Which is why some people dislike it so much, I guess.
Load More Replies... Thrudd 2 years ago
If I was a symphonic super conductor the audience would be screaming mho mho mho.
Franz 11 months ago
Dear fellow readers you can read the last post (picture only) that bp asks money for before reading (understand my English not a native speaker) by long tapping or right clicking on it and touching or clicking on preview image in your browser I made this account only to tell this to you in case you don't know (though I think you know) thank you bp staff don't read this
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
BP, again with your arbitrary truncation! If you're going to shorten a thread, please do so when it's at least 65 entries long. Then you can stop at 50 and require that people click to read at least 15 more.
Mary Peace 2 years ago
But the others are there if you want to read them, so why does it matter? People can stop when they've had enough anyway.
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