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When opening a science textbook, fun is the last thing that comes to your mind. A brief moment of reminiscence takes you back to the sweaty school corridors and the ever-present anxiety of not having done your homework. But if you press pause on the moment in your memory where you’d read those odd science textbooks with the hardback covers, you’ll notice something weird. The infographics are the key word. How on earth did everybody think they were just fine?

Fast forward to today, and there’s a whole wave of adult people collecting such bizarrely captivating examples of science diagrams which may as well pass as some sort of colorful sketches by surrealist artists. No sense, no logic, no rules, just pure anything-goes kind of science-based improvisation.

And thanks to the hugely popular Twitter page "Science Diagrams that Look Like Sh*tposts," with an ever-growing audience of 754.3K followers, we now have some of the most solid winners in the funny and the weird departments. If you go “but why?” you can be sure you’re not alone, and that the science infographic is casting its spell on you.

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

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

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Science Diagrams that Look Like S**tposts” Twitter page and the Facebook group which runs by the same name is a bizarre corner of the internet that collects illustrations so bizarre that it has earned a solid fanbase. The project has amassed 754.1K Twitter followers and 20,634 people on Facebook who like the page and come in for a daily weird and wonderful treat.

It makes you wonder whether the publishers of these textbooks ever bothered to look at the content before submitting volumes upon volumes to print. But the internet is crazy about the s**tposting content that refers to the internet slang which means content of no value.

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According to Urban Dictionary, “any content on the internet whose humor derives from its surreal nature and/or its lack of clear context” can be defined as a s**tpost. But it differs from a meme: “whereas a meme's humor comes from its repeatability, a s**tpost is funny simply because it isn't a predictable repetition of an existing form. S**tposts can become memes, but memes cannot become s**tposts.”

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

We know which nation uses other objects to measure other things... I won't say who because people will say I'm racist again

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

Please tell me this is just one of a series comparing the heights of animals and literary icons

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

I get it.. they are showing you how long things would be if the intestines were straight

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

Looks like if I eat the unhealthy choices, I'll become a badass terminator kid... and if I eat healthy, I'll become Mark

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

This on is quite helpful in understanding that typical world maps are misleading when it comes to country sizes.

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

This must be from a seagull instruction manual for Cornish Seagull. Kill you for a chip they will.

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

An illustration from "Chatting to Fish: a Breakthrough in Inter-Species Communication"

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

Just transpose 'disgusted' and 'happy' and you have the story of 2020

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

Ginger soared over the waves as Paul's frantic cries for help receded into the distance. He'd never really liked his owner anyway

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

This is from the semi-famous psychological 'Little Albert' experiment on behaviour conditioning, where the baby was conditioned to be afraid of white mice. (Yes, the thing was unethical, I've forgotten exactly how many years ago it was or the names of the researchers.) One of the lab crew came in one day with a fluffy fake white wig and the baby's fear of fluffy white objects was so intense (from the conditioning that 'white mouse = painful loud noise) that he cried and panicked at the sight of the beard

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

It's such a sad story. It was even more unethical since they didn't attempt any reversal of the conditioning. No one seems to know what happened to Little Albert afterwards :(

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

Old dude who wants you to sit on his lap, no questions asked, while he photographs it? You SHOULD be afraid.

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

It looks funny out of context, but if you know what it's about, it's tragic and horrifying. (See Miriam L's comment.)

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

If you've ever seen vintage photos of Santa Claus you'll understand why

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

This is from the Little Albert experiment, in which a doctor (let’s call him Bob, as I forgot his name) was experimenting with association of objects. Bob would take Little Albert and give him a fluffy object (such as a Santa Claus beard) and when Little Albert touched it or got close to it, a metal rod would be striked just above Poor Little Alberts head! Bob would then write down little Alberts reactions. Bob tried many variations of this experiment over long periods of time, including adding a rat, or using a velvet hat! When Alberts mother figured out what Bob was doing, she disappeared with her son and was never seen again. To this day no one knows where they went, or if Little Albert got over his fears.

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

"Hello, I am the immortal magical bearded old man who is watching you every second and judging you until the day I will descend on Earth and give you the reward or punishmen you deserve." Seriously, I was a poor little frightened toddler... Then I grew up and became a Christian, because f**k constancy.

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

ok, so basically this was one of the results from a horrible psychology experiment where the scientists introduced a baby with small animals (dogs/puppies, rabbits, rats, etc.) and let him interact with them. then they introduced them again, but this time they gave him the rat and would hit an iron bell (or block, i forgot exactly what) every time he would touch or hold the rat. they GAVE the baby a phobia of the rat- but also a phobia of everything else (hence the "now he fears even santa claus" line). once the experiments were finished, the scientists did not care to reverse the damages they caused and returned the poor child back to his mother, phobias and all.

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

The mother is now doing time for child endangerment and confusing a baby with optical illusions

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

People... ik they said a soul patch is a good idea, but for the love of God... please no.

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

Hey, I have seen this one in a text book. It is supposed to demonstrate the areas of different senses in the brain. It shows how big portions different senses take in the human brain.

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

This diagram replaced a colour photo which was deemed to be too harrowing

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