50 Hilarious Science Memes That Prove That Science Can Be Funny, As Shared On This Instagram Page
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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Mmhm, totally just like 100% of the survivors of war survived. Therefore war is completely 100% percent safe as survivors survival percent is 100%. Defo no flawed logic there
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This is called Survivorship Bias. It happens all the time in less obvious ways, and not always in this way with literal life and death. Another example is when investment managers are studied and supposedly half of them beat the market and half don't. Those studies don't account for the investment funds that closed before the end of the study period. When that is accounted for, it's more like 2% beat the market, 98% do not.
Good call Rahul. Classic example is where they studied the damage on WW2 bombers that made it back after being fired upon. Most of the damage was in the less critical places, which suggested to reinforce those areas. What one might miss is that the planes damaged where it really counts never made it back to be surveyed.
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There was a similar study that showed parachute drops to have a 0% fatality rate. The study was conducted with the plane grounded on the runway. (I believe the study itself was satire of the reliability of statistics)
That reminded me of a terrific Chuck Norris joke: “What did Chuck Norris do when his parachute failed to open? He brought it back for a refund.” You’re welcome!
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The survivorship bias is one of the reasons many people are convinced that a healthy lifestyle can cure cancer. Not just help managing the symptoms or whatever, but literally cure cancer. Because when they were diagnosed they made some important lifestyle adjustments, then they attributed their healing to this, not realizing how many people made the same changes in their diet, etc. but still lost against cancer.
The problem with that line of thought is there's no one definition of a 'healthy lifestyle'. The Bristol Institute, though, has carried out studies to show that an organic vegan diet can significantly (in conjunction with radiotherapy where needed; never chemo) reduce cancer cells within the body. So it's not complete myth?
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My brain was like "sure!! But did you adk those who lost?!?!". Felt smart for a second.... now I feel dumb! Can laugh about it though
Funny how that works. Kinda like, "it was in the last place I looked... " Things that make you go hmmm....
That's why I now say it's the last place I COULD look. Like opening five cookie jars and finding cookies in the fifth jar. Now I want cookies.
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"We coddle children too much these days! I never wore a seatbelt growing up and I turned out fine."
I'm living proof that I was right to never wear a helmet while riding a bicycle. Over the years I fell a bunch of times, hit my head a bunch of times, but never looked stupid doing it because everybody knows a bike helmet makes you look stupid. Never any lasting damage. I win! Life would be so boring if we didn't have daredevils. :D
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I took a statistics class at university and the book we had to read was called How To Lie With Statistics
Hmmmm, when put that way yea, though Im preety sure you're doing it wrong lmao...........PS . I dunno the term on English, in Portuguese its called " moda " when you only count One side of a " media " ( average ), he's only counting the survivors and not the dead, hence his 100% statistics, sorry to put this here everyone understand his joke, but might not understand mine )
Another flawless statistic... If you live half of the year in New York, and half in California, on average, you live in Kansas.
What makes it funnier is that the person's name is GermanSniper. Ah, dark humor.
Statistics: off all car accidents at night time 99% were using their lights. Better drive without lights on.
I love this because it shows how all statistics work. You get the answer you want by only showing the answers that prove your point. If all the stats on seatbelts were released, everyone would know they do not save lives. They can. They also kill and maim. I'm alive because I wasn't wearing.
It's a sad fact that you can play with statistics in such a way to create so many lies. I'm going to tell you this right now that most your commercials that use statistics are lies.
Wrong (incomplete) statistics, since you left out the life/death proportion rate, which is... ta-daaa, 50/50. And you can also throw in the number of times each one of them played the game and build a repetition/chance of survival graph. You know, when you oversimplify something, you can manipulate the facts the way you please...
yes...it's almost like it's a satirical example to make a point about statistics...
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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.
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...
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Lol, " its funny because its true " ( just imagine Sheldon saing it )
“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’.
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
I am so bad at math that even my math teachers didn' t understand how this was possible
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
The first with Hairy Styles is my favorite, although the second still attracts more.
Poor dog, looks a bit worried, why would you put them up there like that?
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of course they're catholic, kittykitty. catholic just means universal in its original sense. And boy oh boy, are those protons and neutrons EVERYWHERE
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Little Johnny was a chemist's son, but Johnny is no more, what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.
Two guys walk into a bar. One said "I'll just have some H2O." The second says "I'll have some H2O too." The second man dies.
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I think BP should find a way to punish readers who jump in and comment on an item, without first reading the previous comments, so as to not repeat the same smart answer over. So they don't post the same answer over. And over.
It’s not that bad. It’s only an extra fifteen seconds of reading at the most. Sometimes it’s even helpful to have several different perspectives describing the same topic. Not every explanation will be effective for everyone nor may only one single explanation be. A little variety can be a good thing.
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When science can be funny, stupid, and educational all at the same time.
of course they're catholic, kittykitty. catholic just means universal in its original sense. And boy oh boy, are those protons and neutrons EVERYWHERE
Load More Replies... Little Johnny was a chemist's son, but Johnny is no more, what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.
Two guys walk into a bar. One said "I'll just have some H2O." The second says "I'll have some H2O too." The second man dies.
Load More Replies... I think BP should find a way to punish readers who jump in and comment on an item, without first reading the previous comments, so as to not repeat the same smart answer over. So they don't post the same answer over. And over.
It’s not that bad. It’s only an extra fifteen seconds of reading at the most. Sometimes it’s even helpful to have several different perspectives describing the same topic. Not every explanation will be effective for everyone nor may only one single explanation be. A little variety can be a good thing.
Load More Replies... When science can be funny, stupid, and educational all at the same time.
