If you glance at subjects like physics, chemistry, and even geography, they might seem boring. Just a bunch of numbers, equations, laws, and portraits of old men with crazy hairstyles and beards.
But if you take a deeper look, you will soon understand that there's plenty of room for entertainment. And the Facebook group "Science Humour" is an excellent example of that.
Its 440K members post, as the group's About section says, "the best science-related laughs, cartoons, puns, jokes, japes and antics," so we decided to put this bold claim to the test and put together a collection of pictures we found in this fun little corner of the internet and let you be the judge.
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If we were to take a scientific look at humor, at least as we understand it today, we'd see that it did not just randomly appear out of nowhere; according to Chris Robert, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, it is probably the result of millions of years of evolution.
"In its earliest forms, humor likely evolved from panting and grunting that occurred during non-serious fighting or other forms of play, or during social 'down time' among our ancient primate ancestors," Robert wrote in Psychology Today.
"Although there was nobody there to document the events with their cell phone, or to upload the video to YouTube, we can extrapolate from similar sounds and behaviors observed among modern primates. Over time, these sounds likely evolved into more specialized vocal sounds that we might now recognize as early forms of laughter... Early hominids that could make those early laughter sounds, and those who had the mental capacity to distinguish between laughter and non-laughter sounds, likely benefitted from stronger bonds with other individuals within their group."
This plan was so bad, a global pandemic emerged solely to prevent any successful Titanic voyage.
"She is Mary Ann Bevan who was known as the "ugliest woman in the world" but when you know her life you'll call her the "most beautiful person in the world." Marry Ann suffered from acromegaly due to which she had abnormal growth nd facial distortion. After the death of her husband, with no breadwinner in the house, accumulating debts and financial needs of her 4 children she decided to enter the humiliating contest and won the offensive title of "ugliest woman in the world" later she was hired by a circus, toured different cities where people came to laugh nd humiliate her. She endured the ridicule of others in order to raise her children nd give them a better quality of life. She died in 1933.
To this day, society judges people on their physical appearance, if our eyes could see souls instead of bodies, Mary Ann would have been the most beautiful woman in the world. "
Robert suggests thinking of it like this: 'funny' primates or early hominids were those who could make sounds that communicated the message, 'We're safe and happy now: Everybody relax and pick some bugs off each other. Eat them if you're hungry.'
"They could also identify those sounds when others in their social group made them, taking the context into account, and could respond appropriately," he explained. "'Non-funny' primates didn't pick up on the signals. They would get angry with others who were only trying to play, and might lash out inappropriately—this is not a good strategy for making friends or finding mates."
In today's world, these are the people at work you 'accidentally' forget to invite to a colleagues night out.
"Similarly, primates who mistook danger vocalizations for play vocalizations were the ones who let their guard down, showed up in the clearing with their rubber chicken and Groucho glasses, and became lunch for a prowling saber-toothed tiger."
Becoming someone's lunch makes it exceedingly difficult to pass on your genes. But those who could make and identify laughter sounds in others were probably more likely to reproduce and pass on genes too. Which helped their offspring create and/or distinguish between play and not-play sounds.
"Those with mutations that allowed them to make even better sounds, and detect the meaning of those sounds, were even more likely to form strong bonds, survive, and pass on their genes, and so on," Robert added.
True story. When my grandpa was a teenager, he worked for a traveling fair. His boss was a total ass and frequently demanded my grandpa work extra hours without paying him. On the last day, my grandpa cleaned everything he was supposed to and helped break down and pack the equipment for moving. The boss was still a jerk. He threw my grandpa the keys to his truck and told him to do some more work, then park the boss's truck in the garage while boss and crew went to the bar. My grandpa did all the work himself. Pissed that the adults never returned, he took the truck to the slightly oversized garage. He parked it. Then, little by little, he worked on parallel parking it. He swears it took him nearly an hour, but he got the truck in the garage entirely horizontally. He never saw that boss again but says he would've paid good money to see his reaction the next morning.
That's cute and also a little terrifying, it really does just like a fuzzy black hole with eyes
When I was in high school my chemistry teacher's license plate was "hiho ag"
When infrastructure is developed enough for self-driving cars to be the norm, I'm sure it'll also have developed enough to have some sort of advanced health alert for passengers who become nonresponsive.
Install a scanner in the car so when it does happen it just automatically redirects the car to the nearest morgue
There's a short story similar to this, Road Stop by David Mason - about an automated car that just keeps going with the passengers inside long passed on. It's on Project Gutenberg if anyone wants to read it.
There was one on the scifi channel where a van basically lured people into the drivers seat and digested them.
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Hey, a great idea for a new series, "The Driving Dead". I see 5 seasons at least! And all they have to do is set up cameras in Florida and let the show write itself!
Will every episode be titled 'Florida Man' or 'Florida Woman'?
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....or take them to hospitals. Did you think about how drunk driving accidents will be a thing of the past? Same with all the other sudden occurrences that being meat-bags entails.
I laughed at this way harder than I should have! After all, it could be me!!
It could be a thing... if cremation or burial isn't your thing, just program Endless Road Trip...
They are ALREADY terrifying: Once on my morning commute in the HOV lane that normally travels at 75MPH plus (barring jams and collisions), I came up behind a lone Tesla going about 60 MPH and immediately became concerned when I saw that the driver wasn't even acknowledging the many vehicles being forced to go around him. But I didn't know what to do about it. The window tinting and speed prevented me from seeing the older gentleman's face clearly and/or his hands. So I kept on driving to work while watching others in my rear view mirror passing the Tesla as I had until it was out of sight. Finally arriving at work, thoughts that the gentleman driver might be asleep or worse, dead at the wheel stayed anxiously with me all day. I kept checking the news and -- thankfully -- never saw any incidents attributed to this car/driver. Seeing just how that kind of thing can really happen and knowing that the problem and chance of occurring is multiplying is frightening.
Ahhhhhhhgggggh. Never thought of that. Thanks. The visuals are now running around in my head.
Ok now I gotta remember every zombie movies that have a scene with corpses sitting in cars.
Considering bluetooth & wifi & all that crap, maybe have the car actually be alerted to the plight of the passenger & alert the emergency staff while dirverting to the closest E.R. but that would make sense...
Just connect your smartwatch and the car: Pulse below value x= Call and Goto ER.
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If, and its a big if, self driving cars arrive, im getting a self driving rv and live in it.
I can't wait until I no longer have to hide the bodies after I'm done.
It would probably realize she was in trouble based on pupil movement and pulse and take her directly to the hospital rather than sitting in a driveway with a dead body
Hopefully there will be a medical button, either in the car or on the person that they can press. Or maybe sensors you attach that will go off. I'd much rather this, than a regular accident. In the early 90s, my Dad had a fishing buddy. The buddy's older brother graduated from medical school. My Dad's buddy was driving a van back home and in it, were his brothers wife, her sister, and their 3 children. The buddy fell asleep at the wheel on the highway, drove up on the sloped end of a guard rail doing 80 mph, sailed 70 feet into the air, coasted 150 feet, and finally crash landed on the passenger side in a gully/ravine. Buddy's right elbow and leg were shattered. The sister died on impact, so did his 1 niece and his brothers wife. They needed the "jaws" to cut them out and the inside of the van was TOTALLY coated in blood. It was a nightmare. I'm all for safety, and I hope one day, self driving cars will be it.
You mean, it just changes from self driving car to automated corpse delivery system. It's just that efficient!
Oh my God that's horrific. Take note self driving car designers.... attach little blood pressure, pulse and O2 detectors to drivers so you know they're alive. Ok thanks
I'd assume the car notices, reroutes to the hospital and ambulances are rarely needed anymore.
Where do you live where you don't need an ambulance?? Not in a city, that's for sure.
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No, at that point you would probably be able to press a button to take you to the hospital (good idea pointing this out, definitely a problem) OR the car would stop because no hands on wheel
Fast forward a million years and humor has developed in the human species as something much more subtle.
"At its core, humor involves the ability to detect and to create incongruities," the psychologist said. "Among our ancient ancestors, the incongruity might have been between behavior that looked like fighting, but which was understood as non-serious or play behavior because it was accompanied by cues such as laugh-like sounds. But as our cognitive abilities have progressed, in parallel with language abilities, so too has our ability to create and appreciate more complex and sophisticated incongruities."
bones of human
Just as our ancient ancestors evolved to enjoy the simple play behaviors, early grunting-laughing sounds, and bonding that occurred throughout this process, we too still enjoy a good poop joke. Even though the humor that we appreciate tends to involve much more abstract and symbolic meaning than with physical play, the impact is no less real.
"You know if you know. Can't unheard it now."
For anyone who didn't understand it, *thump thump smack, thump thump smack, we will we will rock you*
"Humor as a form of play, even at higher levels of play with complex thoughts and ideas, is associated with positive emotions, and with positive feelings about individuals we are with when we experience that positive emotion," Robert said.
"As my colleague [Wilbanks] and I have noted elsewhere, humor, positive emotions, and stronger interpersonal bonds operate in mutually reinforcing spirals that stimulate the production of humor, and seeking out individuals with whom we can laugh and feel closer."
it also gives disappointment to those with a brain, we'd been hoping they'd die out
The interesting thing is that the highly abstract and symbolic nature of humor that we developed allows for many different forms of gags.
"Humor can build and destroy, strengthen and weaken, honor and besmirch, and perhaps all of these at the same time. This complexity is what makes it beautiful, and of interest to me, and I suspect to many other psychologists," Robert explained.
And as we can see from these pictures, they're not the only academics exploring the subject!
I don't make mistakes except for one time when I thought I had made a mistake - I was mistaken
The fact that the cannon sticks out the water remembers me to this old cartoons where the mean charakter has to flee a bee army and jumps in a pond, only breathing through a piece of straw... Funny.
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I got some good laughs. Once again, the comments were way funnier than the original posts.
Careful not to let it happen too often, 7 days of it might make one week.
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I stumbled over this site while searching for something really important. 30 minutes later: This is great! I'm sharing it on my Facebook! ...what was I looking for? I got online to actually do something...
I love smart people jokes lol most o my friends would not understand…… o wel to bad for them they are missing out on a lot
I got some good laughs. Once again, the comments were way funnier than the original posts.
Careful not to let it happen too often, 7 days of it might make one week.
Load More Replies... I stumbled over this site while searching for something really important. 30 minutes later: This is great! I'm sharing it on my Facebook! ...what was I looking for? I got online to actually do something...
I love smart people jokes lol most o my friends would not understand…… o wel to bad for them they are missing out on a lot
