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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.

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

    Was I the only one who typed it out myself because it looked cool...

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    troufaki13
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    2 years ago Created 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.

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

    Wikipedia is more reliable than many professors I’ve met.

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

    Wrote Wiki article on my family's business.. which dates back almost a century. We developed, customized much of the equipment. Article was "corrected" by some numbskull that had never operated the equipment. I changed it back. He changed it again. I finally got sick of the bully and just deleted the page. He then made one on *my business with wrong information.

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

    Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source. My friend had a professor who assigned a project, a report on the "North American Tree Mollusk". If you went to Wikipedia, you would find a full entry. It had pictures, even links to sources. It was all BS. If you actually tried to do any research you'd find that such a thing didn't exist. Heck, if you even read the wikipedia article you'd realize it. It listed one of its primary predators as Bigfoot. But if you just opened wikipedia, skimmed or copied it, then turned in a report, you failed.

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

    It is simply a fantastic starting point. Guessing that the less niche a subject is, the higher the likelihood the relevant community will be on top of correcting misinformation. Overall still an incredibly useful tool, even if it includes misinformation and disinformation and can't be relied upon to be the final word.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wikipedia has really tightened things up over the last decade or so. Make some random change and then see how long it takes for it to be corrected. It's usually corrected within 10 minutes.

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

    Sometimes even 5. Yes, things have changed.

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

    "Sir, why isn't Wikipedia a reliable source when it's curated and peer-reviewed by many knowledgable people and easily corrected, but this text book written by one guy alone 100 years ago and largely guessing somehow is just because it's been printed?"

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

    Wikipedia has about a many errors per word as any encyclopedia. However it is far more liberal in political bias than most encyclopedias. I think that's half the reason everyone fights it as a source

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

    I had a student one time, caught plagiarizing from Wikipedia, who tried to say she wrote the Wikipedia article. I replied: Nope. Not according to Wikipedia, you didn't. Wikipedia record edits.

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

    My student self laughs a lot. But he remembers the words the professors used to say: Wikipedia is not a reliable source.

    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But it provides links to reliable sources. Check the footnotes and cite those articles after you confirm that that's what they actually say. That's how you science student folks.

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

    Wikipedia is a *fantastic* TERTIARY source.

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

    life hack: use sweet search.com, it is really helpful and gives you reliable websites with answers

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

    My school literally blocked Wikipedia. 🫤

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

    ...and then they went back in time and sued the breakfast cereal company for violation of the very same copyright.

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

    Is it plagiarism if I copy off of myself?

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

    I stole your mom. To be protected from robbery, i burned the house and any forms of identification

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

    This explains a heck of a lot of what has happened to Wikipedia. The most important parts have a tendency to vanish.

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

    Just hope that the edit isn't undone just as quickly...

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

    That's some kind of BS. Should of gotten at least partial credit!

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

    My brain still does not want to understand this scale.

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

    As someone who works better under pressure, it's a super power!

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

    Lol, " its funny because its true " ( just imagine Sheldon saing it )

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

    I see Clarkson I upvote. Note: this will be controversial I know

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

    I understand this meme. I'm something of a scientist myself!

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

    Notes, what's notes? I was far too lazy to write notes 😆

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

    "You are my density. I mean, my destiny..."

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

    And what about a dressed up eye? (I’ll show myself out).

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

    I'm in a hurry doc, I gotta go and buy a farm

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

    Well, I have to agree that 270° is not often talked about.

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

    Jupiter is by far the best solar system object to slingshot off.

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    Anyone-for-tea?
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Poor dog, looks a bit worried, why would you put them up there like that?

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

    I'm lost - Do I have to hand back my nerd badge?

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

    Nah, just drop back to civil engineering. It's like engineering for dummies. And before anyone starts yelling at me I am a civil engineer...

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

    It took Russell and Whitehead 300 pages to prove that 1+1=2. Which doesn't make sense.

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

    Unless, of course, they're trying to teach you a specific method so you have another tool in your toolbox to solve equations

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

    Currently, in my chem class we are doing personal experiments. My friends finished early and wanted to make gunpowder. Thank goodness the teacher talked them out of it. Then they started talking about making chloroform or meth…

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