The awesome thing about human beings is that they’re often big fans of comedy. After all, humor is one of the things that unites people no matter what they do. And scientists are no different! They enjoy a good laugh like anyone else, though the content they like might be a tad brainier than most.
‘Science Is Fun,’ the brainchild of Tomas Rosko, is a well-known Instagram account that is a celebration of the intersection between science content and good humor. We’ve collected some of the freshest memes, as featured on the account, to bring a bit of entertainment and education into your lives, Pandas. Keep scrolling and don’t forget to upvote your favorite memes.
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I'm born leftwing and literally a nerdy logic based programmer who loves science. But that pretty unicorn actually gave me a moment of epiphany of "Ok, I finally get that conspiracy theories *maybe* can be fun!", rather than my usual reaction of a baffled shudder of abhorrence.
I don't think so, I mean we know it's the truth that cats run everything
Load More Replies...if there is a will, there is a way ... old german quote ... love the mind of this 3yo
That's funny. Just the other day my 3yo was pondering the meaning of life and working on quadratic equations.
I once saw a plate that said "BEYOND" on a blue Horizon and I know there was one that had "BAABAA" on a black Jeep. Some of these are genius.
Load More Replies...Staying up to date about any subject can be tough when you’ve got adult responsibilities like work, studying, doing chores, raising kids, taking care of your health, and the like. At the end of the day, you’ll never have enough time or energy to do everything that you’d ideally like to. However, if you find a subject truly fascinating, your curiosity can win out and inspire you to dig just a bit deeper about a topic even when you’re tired and stressed.
For example, yours truly is a big space geek. I’ve been avidly following the launch and progress of the Europa Clipper. In short, the spacecraft will be traveling 1.8 billion years across space until it arrives in orbit around Jupiter around April of 2030. Then, the Clipper will do 49 close flybys of Europa, one of the planet’s most important moons.
When the abilitiy of logical reasoning and / or talent for solving mathematical problems were distributed, I was missing class, so I'll just blurt out the first thing that came to mind...is it even possible to cut a cake into three equal pieces? 🍰 🤔 🍰 🤷🏽 🍰 🔪
Ability to cut cake into equal pieces depends on the number of siblings
Load More Replies...Well, technically, it's not 0.333, but 0.(3), which is an infinite sequence.
Hahaha that's not true when I cut the cake... Reason... I always lick the knife when I've done..😋😉🤣🤣
I really wish I dont see this comment in comments that didnt age well.
Load More Replies...Yeah, that misspelling of "cull" should definitely be censored. BP, you're ridiculous.
It makes everyone stop kulling if they put that little censor tab on there..... everything is wonderful again and there are no more horrid acts to deal with...BP to the rescue.
Load More Replies...We've turned into a society of wusses where everything has to be censored for a few people are offended by words. It doesn't make horrid acts go away. _____Also.... Richards can't use their nickname of BP anymore without an asterisks.😳🤬
One cannot be rational when one has pi. Pi transcends all. Especially if the next three letters are "zza".
Load More Replies...I'm trying persuade Mr Auntriarch that we should move to No 31 even as we speak
Load More Replies...On one of Vienna's U-bahn station there's π on wall, it goes around the corner and then there's display with live computation of last 6 digits.
“There is strong evidence Jupiter’s moon Europa has a saltwater ocean that may be one of the best places to look for environments where life could exist beyond Earth,” NASA explains.
The reason why the spacecraft will be orbiting Jupiter rather than Europa is to avoid the intense radiation around the latter, which has the potential to damage its scientific instruments. The entire mission is the sort of stuff that motivates you to find out as much as you can about space, our solar system, and the potential for alien life outside of our planet.
It *has* 95 moons; it's only taking care of 79. Jupiter is a bad parent 😆
Load More Replies...How did you get a picture of the monster that lived under my bed when I was a little kid?
I agree whole heartily.... it should share with Mercury and Venus. Just one problem... I bet Jupiter's moons are bigger than they are.
Load More Replies...You know this response popped into Mari's head and she just HAD to share the genius of it. Well done Mari, well done.
‘Science is Fun,’ which founder Tomas describes as a place where science is cool and fun, continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Currently, the account has a jaw-dropping 2.1 million followers over on Instagram.
That’s a 200k increase in followers over the last half-year from when we last covered the project. Humanity’s appetite for quality, funny, and relatable content is likely never going to go away, so it’s likely that the account will continue drawing in more and more science lovers from all corners of the globe.
And how much there is that we don't know we don't know.
Load More Replies...Well he had an uncle who was a professor at MIT, so of course that makes him brilliant too.. That's STOOPID WITH TWO O's
Load More Replies...Sounds like the entire MAGA GOP. And every cabinet pick the Teflon Don makes.
Load More Replies...This may be you if you have a small amount of knowledge about something but are very passionate about that little bit that you know. I see this a lot with some Americans' opinions about our constitution. It really does take a legal education to even begin to understand it, considering there are a couple hundred years of Supreme Court interpretation of its meaning, but you have people screaming about their constitutional rights and what the document's words mean to them as if it isn't the Supreme Court that says what they mean. Of course, the current Supreme Court is not big on following precedent anymore, despite what they claimed during the confirmation process. Nonetheless, they get the say for the betterment or to the detriment of all of us, not your favorite politician, not the NRA, and not your uncle on facebook.
That is not accurate. The Dunning Kruger effect means that the lower the competence of a person, the larger the difference is between their competence and their actual competence. People with little expertise and ability don't believe that they are experts, they just overestimate the expertise that they have. SO a person with very little expertise will believe that they have moderate levels of expertise, not that they have high levels of expertise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
"there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know"
In my head are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure. There are times I almost think nobody sure of what he absolutely know. Everybody find confusion in conclusion he concluded long ago. And it puzzle me to learn that, though a man may be in doubt of what he know…very quickly will he fight, he’ll fight, to prove that what he does not know, is so!
Load More Replies...During an earlier interview, Bored Panda got to grips with the inspiration behind ‘Science is Fun.’ The founder of the project, Tomas, was kind enough to tell us all about it.
“The inspiration for the project was that I always loved two things: humor and science, but I rarely saw these two topics at once,” he previously opened up to us via email.
Do you want me to do photosynthesis? or Do you want me to photosynthesise? The original was correct.
Load More Replies...The sun has risen and I feel pretty beschissen (🤭), but I think some photosynthesis might help...😎
Really? Cos I thought he looks a lot like the guy who lives next door to Homer Simpson 🤔 😂 🤣
Load More Replies...Maybe they could teach us to use AI appropriately without destroying ecosystems, the environment, and our planet? Wait - that would prob only require destroying us...
O.k., now shut the robots down and destroy all the results. They're at the bottom of the ocean, let's let them be.
I catch sentences like this all the time. Some come out sounding really funny.
“Tuesday afternoon, August 21, 2018, was the moment the ‘Science Is Fun’ project was created to simply put humor and science together, hoping that having this content ‘under one roof’ would get its appreciation and, hopefully, more people would relate to it,” the creator told Bored Panda about the project’s origins.
what is AI is just acting stupid to keep us from looking too hard at it too close.
Presumably, the ref is looking directly at the game the whole time, so it still might work.
I work with a flat earther.....all her tiktok tin-foil-hat conspiracy theories make my brain hurt on a daily basis. Almost every single thing she says or 'knows' is wrong, it's exhausting to converse with and makes me feel like my own IQ is falling out my ears.
Without any examination or research, the earth does appear flat at first impressions. Flat earther theory is attractive to people who assume that their first impressions are always correct and need no confirmation or additional support.
I heard a Flat Earther ( in a YouTube video) tell some sane people: "We are in the age of technology, there is no excuse." Trying to get a Flat Earther to admit the earth is round is like trying reason with a rock.
Load More Replies...If it were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now.
"you can be overwhelmed and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever be just whelmed?"
Load More Replies...And we are about to have a new minister of health who does not have a clue what this cartoon means.
Could you send me enough for 7-10 days? I'll get my coat
Load More Replies...Of course, like any long-term project, there have been changes. For one, there was a need to adapt to how the algorithm governing Instagram changed. Meanwhile, there was some experimentation with different content, blending memes, facts, and news about science in different amounts.
However, after all of these years, Tomas’ core goal remains unchanged: “To popularize science in a way people might find it interesting.”
I guess they would be the only people who like that aquarium pet shop musty fish smell.
Wait, there are still Milky Way bars? I haven't seen one of those in Canada for decades...
I think the American, and presumably therefore also the Canadian, Milky Way bar is/was very much different to the UK/global version, with a caramel layer making it much more like the UK Mars bar, which like much of the product line was developed in the UK, with Mars GB historically being a much bigger confectionery manufacturer than the American parent company.
Load More Replies...If the Greek would have won against the Romans, Mars would be called Ares...Venus → Aphrodite, Neptune → Poseidon, and so on...🤔
Edison is more like guy who stole the joke and prevented the other guy from telling more jokes
Think you got this wrong. It was Edison who "stole" other peoples intentions.
Load More Replies...Tomas explained to us earlier what makes memes truly high quality. There are several main factors to consider here.
"Since the point of a meme is that it’s basically a visualized joke, the picture (graphics in general) might be, at some point, crucial. What might decide whether it will get its appreciation is the geography of the audience, gender, age, interest, and level of education in the area of the particular meme," he said.
One of my friends told me the heated seat in his girlfriends car caused his gonorrhea. Not a joke, he really believes this.
Does he think... gonorrhea is like a literal burn? From too much heat? Or is he still stuck on the 'spontaneous generation' theory of life and he thinks the bacteria magically appear if you heat up your private areas too much?
Load More Replies...It may not cause gonorrhea, but if I saw one it would likely bring on a pretty swift case of diarrhoea! 🤣
How do you know a thermometer has graduated? It has all those degrees.
"When the meme requires some (but a low) level of education, there is a chance it will make more sense for the majority of the audience,” the creator of ‘Science is Fun’ explained. He added that it’s not just laughter that the audience gets. People can also feel like they’re being educated or like they relate to the situation in the meme on an emotional—sometimes even nostalgic—level.
Oh, if I'd memorized the periodic table in 9th grade when I was supposed to, this would be a great password strategy.
I'm seriously thinking of trying this one out... After all hackers can't know that pancakes is actually the same number in text jargon, right..?
Now they will write a script to incorporate the periodic table in their attempt to access your NFTs of Princess Leia
Load More Replies...Absolutely! Every year we ask our graduating students who wants to make a short speech. Sometimes it's not the ... best ... student who does - but it's always fun and entertaining.
"GOAT The U.S. Military Academy in West Point uses GOAT, too, but it means something very different. When the seniors graduate as second lieutenants every spring, they give their loudest cheers to their GOAT, the cadet who finished dead last in the class with the lowest overall GPA." https://www.wytv.com/news/daybreak/west-point-has-an-award-for-the-lowest-scoring-graduate/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Military%20Academy%20in,with%20the%20lowest%20overall%20GPA.
Not unlike bowling. I have a couple of last place trophies. They're mine and I put a lot of effort into winning them.
Load More Replies..."These emotions can be more powerful than laughter itself. And combining more emotions with having a low education requirement for the post can cause the post to go viral,” Tomas said. For him, popularizing science through memes and education is linked to showing everyone how different science is from what they experienced in school. It’s not ‘boring.’ Far from it!
The founder said that popularizing science in society involves showing people that it’s fascinating and logical. “I believe in showing people that learning about science is basically learning about our world, laws of nature, laws of our very own existence and our essence,” he said.
If you have to bring out your d*ck to swing it about to feel like the bigger man over someone else....you have a tiny d*ck, in the literal and figurative sense.
I remember when we called it the "Hitler Channel", because every day was another Finding Hitler episode. Then there was that Ancient Aliens dude. Tabloid media garbage.
I know you mean that guy that takes EVERYTHING as a PROOF of his theories and there is ABSOLUTELY no other way to see it but his.
Load More Replies...South Park's take on History Channel is the most on target: "History Channel! Where truth is history!"
Of course this is how the ancient Egypts solved this problem - Thank you for this information, now I can put this worrysome daily wondering aside and go on with my life relieved of all my worry!
Which of these memes did you like the most and why, dear Readers? What’s your relationship with science like? Do you stay up to date with the latest science news or do you still have any weird preconceptions about the topic from your school days?
Share your thoughts in the comments below. Meanwhile, if you currently work or have worked in a scientific field, we’d love to hear about how you got into it and what keeps you passionate!
... or medicine or computer science or marine biology. If you want to watch TV in peace, study business administration, that is apparently too boring for most screenwriters 🤣
So you haven't seen "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Human Resources?" or "Raiders of the Lost Accountant?" Someone stop me!
Load More Replies...I don't enjoy actions movies anyway. But I do get unreasonably irritated when films/books get sciency stuff wrong.
Anything making a sound in space really annoys me. Asteroids colliding with a bang; spacecraft engines roaring...don't get me started!
Load More Replies...There is a running joke that I physically cannot stop myself from pointing out medical accuracy in books/movies/etc which is not entirely true but pretty dang close. I got that reputation after when talking about an episode of Avatar my first comment was "The bandaging is so much better in Bitter Work (later episode)", and they were like "Why did you notice that?"
Cop shows where they interrogate the suspect and there is never lawyer in the room drive me nuts.
That's hardly fair, isn't everyone less than dessert?
Load More Replies...Shame that the greatest theoretical physicist in that picture is not in the front row, but at least he's got the centre spot in the middle row. Paul Dirac, who's work was so ahead of the rest that not even Einstein understood him. While struggling over one of Dirac's papers, Einstein wrote "I am toiling over Dirac. This balancing on the dizzying path between genius and madness is awful."
Because it was about age and seniority, and he was a youngster. Also, I'm sorry, but the fact that other physicists didn't understand him doesn't in and of itself, mean that he was great genius.
Load More Replies...Only two I recognise are Darwin and Einstein.. no idea who all the other people are though...
I know this is just a light-hearted meme, but who the f*ck thought "Right, this waste will be deadly for a few thousand years so we'll dispose of it in steel drums that'll turn to rust before the solder on the lids is cold"?
Reminds me of Thule: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash
Actually that's a very helpful visual for those of us that never knew what RNA was supposed to look like but knew what DNA looked like. Learned something today.
I opened an energy drink in my math class the other day, and my instructor immediately asked if it was a beer.
My kid used to think I was drinking beer when it was iced tea, plain.
Load More Replies...Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in your fruit salad
Guy I knew years ago was going for his doctorate in physix and asked his 14 year old brother to check the math in his dissertation. He knew his limitations and his brother's competence.
Dont put the protractor in there, the plastic will melt and get stuck on everything.
It always makes me strategize, as if I could actually teleport through time and space to solve this.
Load More Replies...Solution: open the door carefully and try to catch as many bowls as you can. You may lose a few bowls, but at least you now have a functioning cupboard again, and you can use the bowls that survive. Keeping the door closed doesn't solve it in any way.
I have seen this image a number of times. And it still surprises me how succinct and "elegant" (a sciencey praise word) the simple image explains a deeply complex concept.
Not sure I'll live long enough to see that, but thanks to my dryer, I got this: Knots-673c...bdfcb5.jpg
For the "and that as well" at the bottom there's a video. Click on the "sciencefunn" and it'll take you to the post!
Nothing is impossible, only highly improbable. On an infinite timeline, in an infinite universe, eventually 100 typing monkeys could collectively write Project 2025.
I'm sorry to have to write this! I worked in advertising for many years. Accuracy is crucial. I have gone through the most boring legal scripts (think Ts&Cs) to ensure there are no errors which can cost a client vast amounts of money if incorrect. To make this kind of error demonstrates someone does not care about their job or their client. I've known agencies that have been fired for less (such a small mistake indicates lack of respect and care).
OMG I thought I was the only one who did this, I thought I was just stupid or dyslexic at math.
No, I'm a math teacher and that's a great way to do math 😊
Load More Replies...BTW, bacteria is plural. The singular is bacterium... Latin words, you know ;)
I always write bacteria. I might be wrong now, but in an hour I'll be correct.
Load More Replies...I had one also require us to memorize poly atomic ions. I dropped that class.
Neurologists are just brains poking at other brains...
Load More Replies...It would take 23,034 average slaps to cook a chicken. Extrapolate from there.
I've seen this phenomenon a couple of times and it's always disconcerting even though I know the explanation.
Happened to me once when I saw a train flying.
Load More Replies...“ROBALD WEALSEY! HOW dare you steal that boat! I am absolutely disgusted! Your father is facing an inquiry at work and it’s entirely your fault! Oh, and Ginny dear…”
And, this is why we don't speak about Robald.
Load More Replies...I have a pic from the beach that looks like my nephew is floating above the sand. He was just running and the water in the background caused the special effect. It's a cool pic though. :)
I always thought it was just that the sea was a different colour over there.
Maybe I should’ve stuck with the harder math classes because these guys sound like my kind of people
His feet might be clean; you can't tell from here. Maybe he is obsessed with cleanliness...
Load More Replies...Not to sound like a nerd but that few water molecules wouldn’t make the floor “wet”
Sane logic as the guy who though covering himself in lemon juice made him invisible.
It kinda did tho. He went to jail and we haven't seen him since.
Load More Replies...In math, 22! is 22 factorial, which equals 22x21x20x19x18x17x ... x 6x5x4x3x2x1
Load More Replies...For anybody not getting this one, 22! is a factorial calculation: 1×2×3×4×5 and so-on to ×22.
And by happy coincidence the full expansion is 22 digits long.
Load More Replies...In math, the exclamation mark means factorial. Which means it has 22x21x20x19x18x17x16x15x14x13x12x11x10x9x8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1 strawberries.
Load More Replies...These are actually pretty cool. They have a ball bearing inside a shaped space and that's what causes them to actually work as dice. They feel weird to toss.
Can you get a set of these as polyhedral dice? Because my 11yo is a huge tabletop gamer and has developed something of a dice addiction; they would LOVE something like this for their D&D group at school!
Load More Replies...All my teachers were like this, they took what came out of your mouth literally and called you on it. It was a way of making us more aware that we know what we're thinking, but no one else is a damn psychic and knows what you're on about, so you need to convey your thoughts as clearly and fully as possible. Made us better communicators.
In physics, a quantity has no meaning if it is not accompanied by a unit of measurement.. It is not the same 10 Ohms than 10 Kg
Load More Replies...I work as an engineer with many many engineers who missed this lesson.
If your friends don't dance, then they're no friends of mine.
Load More Replies...The middle one on the bottom row is wrong if a is a constant (as it is everywhere else in the figure). The graph should be a straight line going though (0,0), tilted up if a>1, tilted down if 0
When you understand thermodynamics but not the dangers of exposing hot liquids to plastic.
4 people, 1000Kg - that is 250Kg per person so I guess the scale of the horse matches.
Load More Replies...I did not know haddock weighed that much. I'll appreciate the fish n' chips more next time.
I've just haddock with this plaice. Honest to cod!
Load More Replies...Yeah... No. Chemists back in the day did some weird s**t, but I think even non-chemists know what vinegar is.
The 1925 guy is talking about sulfuric acid, the vinegar guy is the one in the present
Load More Replies...True. And a surprising (?) number of those 1925 Chemist did not live past 40 years old.
A kid in my chemistry class tried to drink hydrochloric acid and then stuck his head in the fume hood people are also stupid today don't worry.
Check out the history of how aspartame was discovered: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/aspartame?variant=zh-cn
Don't try this at home, though. Also, you'd normally inhale chlorine, not drink it ;)
I recently learned from the pool manager that chlorine in water has minimal odor. It only starts to produce that bad odor when it kills bacteria. This pool stresses that everyone takes a shower before entering the water to rinse off dead skin cells. There is barely a discernible chlorine odor in this pool. Plus there are very few kids in the pool so not much urine for the chlorine to react with.
Load More Replies...Also before eating sodium maybe remove as much moisture from your body as possible. Nobody needs stuff getting 'splodey in their breadbasket.
Well, Cars suck. Our roads would last for just about forever if only people and bikes use them.
I find this one a little annoying because it's so disingenuous. Firstly, Archaeologists have found evidence of numerous written complaints from people complaining about the quality of the roads and poor quality of both materials and construction. Dating as far back as the Romans. Secondly; In modern times, there are many different types of road surface, materials and methods. Local authorities will always pick the best for their budget, not the best for purpose. Almost all government funded highways are going to be an inferior quality.
In there defense, a lot more people were allowed to die building roads than are allowed in current times.
