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While science may not be for everyone, science memes are a whole different thing.

By combining educational material and painfully relatable situations that bring back the memories of everything from physics class to your chemistry teacher, from lab work to a math test, it serves as one kind of hilarious entertainment.

And this Instagram page titled “Memes Of Science” features some of the “funniest science-related memes in one place,” according to their description. With 42.6K followers and counting, the page clearly has a lot to offer, so put on your safety glasses, everyone, we are about to dive deep into the rabbit hole.

While not everyone has a gift for science (shout out to all my fellow humanities people!), the recent body of research showed that there are other factors that might be to blame for our limited brain capacity and decreased cognitive functions.

One such factor is quite surprising – it turns out that something as basic as an unhealthy diet which is high in fat and sugar can cause detrimental changes to the brain and lead to cognitive impairment. Recently, scientists ran two large-scale studies that revealed that eating ultra-processed foods may exacerbate age-related cognitive decline and increase the risk of developing dementia.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I recently saw a video of someone asking random people in the street general knowledge questions. They all got them wrong, except the question "name the 3 Kardashian sisters, bonus points for the brother". Just sadness...

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According to Sara N. Burke, an Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Associate Director of the Cognitive Aging and Memory Center (CAM), ultra-processed foods tend to be lower in nutrients and fiber and higher in sugar, fat, and salt compared to unprocessed or minimally processed foods.

“Some examples of ultra-processed foods include soda, packaged cookies, chips, frozen meals, flavored nuts, flavored yogurt, distilled alcoholic beverages, and fast foods. Even packaged breads, including those high in nutritious whole grains, qualify as ultra-processed in many cases because of the additives and preservatives they contain,” she explained in this article.

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In a December 2022 study, researchers discovered that those participants of the study who ate a diet containing more ultra-processed foods at the start of the study showed more cognitive decline compared with those that ate little to no ultra-processed foods.

Professor Burke argues that for adults over the age of 55, a healthier diet could increase the likelihood of maintaining better brain function. “In particular, the Mediterranean diet and ketogenic diet are associated with better cognition in advanced age.”

These two diets, Burke argues, are capable of reversing some of these changes and improving cognitive function. Scientists suspect that this is possible because these diets reduce harmful inflammation.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"small stuff, big stuff, hot stuff, cold stuff, fast stuff, heavy stuff, dark stuff, turbulence, and the concept of time" - damn, that's 100% correct.

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When it comes to the current state of the world’s science field, it’s interesting to note that the number of science and technology research papers published has skyrocketed over the past few decades.

Despite that, the new data from millions of manuscripts show something interesting. Nature reports that compared with mid-twentieth-century research, that done in the 2000s was much more likely to push science forward incrementally than to veer off in a new direction and render previous work obsolete. Analysis of patents from 1976 to 2010 showed the same trend.

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“The data suggest something is changing,” says Russell Funk, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a co-author of the analysis. “You don’t have quite the same intensity of breakthrough discoveries you once had.”

What’s more, the authors also analyzed the most common verbs used in manuscripts. Their study published in Nature found that whereas research in the 1950s was more likely to use words evoking creation or discovery such as ‘produce’ or ‘determine’, that done in the 2010s was more likely to refer to incremental progress, using terms such as ‘improve’ or ‘enhance’.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cats won't feel the spiciness. Their tounges have no receptor for capcisin (the stuff that makes food hot). That being said, do not feed them with spicy foods. Their digestive systems are not built for it

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so bad at math that even my math teachers didn' t understand how this was possible

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nobody likes curved TVs. You get a pincushion effect, then your eyes adjust and everything you look at afterwards has barrel distortion.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know this is a joke but it is possible. Multiplying is the same as dividing by the inverse (and vice versa). E.g. 5*2 = 5/0.5. Or 6/2 = 6*1/2

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first with Hairy Styles is my favorite, although the second still attracts more.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mathematics was not my strong point, and apparently this ice cream didn't help either.

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