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."
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"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. "
She truly is a pillar of strength. That is absolutely the definition of unconditional love. What an extraordinary person.
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I think her illness became apparent and changed her looks after she was married.
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that's just a technicality. it's just missing the technology part ... and the humor part. But there is a circus!!
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Beauty may be in the eyes of the beholder but true beauty is in the ears of the blind.
I always hate when they label someone "ugliest in the world" like, who the hell are you to judge someone based on physical appearances. She was better than every single person that choose to laugh and humiliate her....she was an angel!
I never understood the belittling of someone by their looks. You all understand it was a genetic lottery? Nothing to particularly be proud of?
Indeed. The other day there was a post on BP and most commenters ignored the woman's achievements to bang on about how lovely she was. One person protested and got roundly downvoted. It's a bloody shame humans are so appearance orientated.
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I have acromegaly. It's an awful rare disease that makes you feel terrible all day every day. Thank God there are medications to treat it nowadays. I just started and pray to God it gets better. I draw hope from all the others who have had it and drew their greatness out of it such as Andre the Giant and her.
I also wish you the best in dealing with your disease. Many who are dealt the unfair blow of having a disease that robs them of some of their quality of life are dealt a second blow dealing with the people who respond cruelly to the first blow.
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It's so sad that people are judged by their looks. The Canadian band The northern Pike's had a song titled 'She ain't pretty, she just looks that way'. There was a young punk in Florida who was drag racing and he ended up killing a young mother and her child. During his trial, young girls were up in arms, saying that he was "too good looking to go to jail."
If you google it you can see pictures of her before the illness altered her appearance. The difference is striking.
I just looked it up. There is a huge difference in before and after. She really didn't look that bad but others exploited her nevertheless, but she was able to get something out of it. Ended up being the equivalent of a millionaire in today's money. She had to be very strong to volunteer for such a life. She was an amazing example to her kids.
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So strong! Imagine being called the ugliest person, and having to live with that burden your whole life. Bless her ❤️
They forgot to mention that she was beautiful before her illness. Not that it matters as her love for her children and self acceptance shone. What an amazing woman.
She had a strength and purpose, and a love for her children. Nothing ugly about any of that. To endure is remarkable.
i don't get it. how is she ugly? all I know is she is a wonderful soul in a wonderful body.
Tbh, aside from her inner beauty, I think she looks pretty in that second pic.
What a mom. Willing to do anything for her children, shes a beautiful soul may she RIP knowing that her children lived a better life because of her
Poor thing. You never know how much a mother's love and strength is until you have children. You will do almost anything to care for them. 💕
Good story, poorly told. Yes, she suffered a lot and endured it to feed her children, and that says so much more about her than her looks, but " if our eyes could see souls instead of bodies, Mary Ann would have been the most beautiful woman in the world." Plenty of really remarkable people out there, so "most beautiful" soul is really pushing it.
This story makes me sick. Her love for her children led her down a humiliating path. She was more beautiful than any perceived notion of beauty that ever existed.
I have acromegaly. It's an awful rare disease that makes you feel terrible all day every day. Thank God there are medications to treat it nowadays. I just started and pray to God it gets better. I draw hope from all the others who have had it and drew their greatness out of it like Andre the Gaint and her.
What an amazing sacrifice!! A truly beautiful person. I only hope her children appreciated what she gave to give them a better life.
Ok I get it and it's a great and shocking story but how is it a "science joke"? Am I missing something here?
If you do a deep dive sue was actually lovely when she married. The I'll was started after the birth of her first kid I think
And now we've got these botox people who make themselves uglier than anyone in the 1930s could think possible.
I think fake botox faces are uglier than this natural woman.
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What an amazing hardworking mother she is! I feel so sorry that people treated her so cruelly, like laughingstock. And yes, she really would have been the most beautiful woman in the world! :)
TRUE mothering mothers are the most beautiful creatures on this planet.
Wait, she was married? That makes me question the reason that I’m still single…
You shouldn't need to train yourself to see other people's inner beauty, It should come naturally but if the first thing your doing is giggle because someone looks a different than you then you're toxic and your soul probably reeks of old socks and cheese.
Such a sad commentary on our society for sure... bless her for her hard work and tough skin
Even other forms of life have their standards for what is attractive and what is not.
Beauty lies in our eyes…. And beautiful people have souls that shine. I’m so sorry to read this. I’m disappointed in the people who still call her this.
I know some beautiful people that wouldn't be so beautiful if you really knew them.
Amen!! Look for souls not the outer shell of a person. Do not be fooled by outer beauty.
that lady looked like she had a hard life of work and suffering... So sad! But she provided for her kids!! Kudos, my dear lady!!
I dont see people correctly, which im grateful for, because I can make anyone beautiful instead
That's absolutely horrible to have to do in order to take care of ones kids... But a mother will do anything for her children.
Why don’t we just start calling her, most beautiful soul in the world? Why we have to stick to titles stupid people proposed.
She had a husband and kids. That tells you there are people out there that don't give a sh*t about looks.
She did this during the start of the "Great Depression". Her life must have been so difficult, but she was brave enough to survive it.
Where's the humor, meme or joke here? Read the whole story, she was so beautiful and pretty before, amazing woman. However this post totally doesn't correlate to the title of the article
Her inner beauty cannot be measured. And who defines what is or is not pretty anyway.
Not sure why this one comes under the category of funny?... I don't find this amusing... She was a very normal and pretty woman before her illness set in.
Acromegaly is something you are born with Andre the Giant had this and I hear he was a beautiful man. And some great strong and tall sportspeople have this - which is why a lot of them die young. The trouble is people never get to know these so called "ugly ducklings" who truly have the souls of swans!
Apparently she was able to find a husband with no problem and produce four children!
I don't know why, but I think she is really beautiful, inside and out.
They should show the photo before the disease took over, she was actually beautiful.
This breaks my heart... She was a good mother who did what she had to do to raise her children...Her children must be proud of their mama! SHAME on everyone who treated her so badly!!!
I think she's beautiful. No joke. People's appearance doesn't put me off, honestly. It just attracts me in different ways. I've always been a weirdo because of that, and that's fine. Usually I just use appearance as a way to identify someone. I can't even imagine the ovaries of STEEL this woman had, to do what she had to do for her children. Back in those days if you worked in a side-show you could earn A LOT of money but the mental and emotional anguish could be back breaking. This is not even counting how the circus higher ups would treat you. I wish I had even 1/10th of the fortitude this woman had.
See? So don't try to say women didn't have choices back then. (Read that as a joke, folks. I'm female and think you folks who just chalk this poor woman's horrific sacrifice up to just an example of great parenting is rubbing me the wrong way a bit. Romantic notions of maternal heroism just help keep women "in their place" and solves nothing.)
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If it was a guy, he'd look normal. She first looked very beautiful. https://gruposaedal.com/how-mary-ann-bevan-became-the-ugliest-woman-in-the-world/
Load More Replies...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"
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
