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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
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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    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.

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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.

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    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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    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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    Sad Quokka
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't!!! I don't feel like going swimming again

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    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
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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...

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    Stardust she/her
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    "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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    Tucker Cahooter
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Presumably you get those extra two when you sit on a couch

    Meowmeow
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think I'm going to level up soon! I've put in a lot of effort

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    Axel Tojo
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The human body is 55-60% water. Feta cheese is also 55-60% water. Therefore you are cheeeeeze! 😛

    Mary Peace
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In that case, why do I find it so hard to smile for a photograph?

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    Loverboy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would enjoy being a potato. Maybe I could power a low voltage lightbulb.

    2CentSally
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My science teacher said the same thing and it's one of my favorite random facts. And it is margerine.

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    Garth
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But you'd have more eyes !

    Jay Son
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    Bored Potato
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    but what if potatoes get two extra chromosomes?

    mark glass
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Explains why we come up with so many half-baked ideas.

    Bobby
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One element is rather different from one atom, though.

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    James016
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    GLaDOS was powered by a potato for a while

    Corvus
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Potato? How random and quirky.

    Bill Carley
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's hysterical if it's true. Can anyone - someone credible please - tell me if it is?

    Bill Carley
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks for the help! Google is amazing! And yes, it's still hysterical.

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    Steek Insektoideth
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone asked my science teacher about this he said "even if we had an extra two chromosomes, we wouldn't be or become a potato"

    Kyllein MacKellerann
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least on the geneoligical level. Mentally... that one is still being researched.

    Janet Graham
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are 2 Chromosomes away from everything!

    jimmy pop
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a German, I already am a potato.

    Maisey Myles
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think some are closer that that!

    Isaac Harvey
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most of us are/are tempted to be couch potatoes, does that count?

    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I dunno. I'm getting older and some days I'm pretty sure the difference is down to one now.

    Henry George
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too many and you brain turns into a potato.

    ahyesthepotato
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so people with down syndrome are halfway there haha

    Larry XK
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So what? Water is one molecule away from being a volatile gas

    Michael Largey
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had students who were content just to split the difference.

    Gibberint Dark
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How many chromosomes do cabages have cos there are a few of those walking around where I live...

    Toni Ahlgren
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also everything in the known universe is either a potato or not a potato.

    Jared Robinson
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doom would have been a much better film

    Bender Bending Rodríguez
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I kind of enjoyed it. However, I agree it could have been better. Now if you talk about World of Warcraft movie that was truly lacking, a big disappointment.

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    Lavi Berko
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    potato!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Corvus
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As some smart guy said once: "Chemistry is like cooking... but don't lick the spoon!"

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    Corvus
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

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    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
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Security camera footage of me in bed ascending to heaven after realising I did that one maths question wrong

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    Michael Largey
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Robert T
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Your attachment appears to have fallen off" ;-)

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    Sad Quokka
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Richard Hammond - I am a driving God! : The world is silent

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    XenoMurph
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Simply change your name to "Et AL" and claim you've co-authored thousands of papers.

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    Corvus
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some of these mnemonic tricks are pretty neat.

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    Robert T
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The powers that be approve of this. :D

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    Loverboy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Corvus
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a time I could solve differential equations. And yes, nowadays I have completely forgotten how it works :D

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    Corvus
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Meanwhile in the USA: "1 gram of diamond weighs something like 30 gallons and 7 degrees Fahrenheit."

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    2 years ago

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    .epub if no images or diagrams.

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    Loverboy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Loverboy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *Kreb's, and yeah it's a tad confusing

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    𝓚𝓮𝓲𝓽𝓱
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what’s a phenotype and what’s Mendelian genetics?? Edit: Thanks Helen, you’re the best :D

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    Stardust she/her
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    SW Dad
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have in my dating profile "Astronomers recently saw a black hole eat a star. That's so cool! If you agree, you're probably a good match." I love nerdy women.

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