Depends On Your Professor Honestly

Scientific gatekeeping strikes again! First they came for Pluto, now they're coming for hydrogen? The image shows what appears to be an atom or atomic structure visualization, while the fake news headline claims hydrogen is getting kicked off the periodic table for being "too small" — just like Pluto got demoted from planet status. The cherry on top is that additional "breakthrough" about "Sus Scrofa" test flights (that's just the scientific name for domestic pigs). Looks like someone's trying to make chemistry as controversial as astronomy! Next week's headline: "Electrons deemed too negative, replaced with more upbeat particles."

Imagine your cellular scaffolding suddenly deciding to commit structural seppuku! That's exactly what happens when those tubulin dimers at the microtubule's plus end hydrolyze their GTP. These microtubules are like the cellular highway system that suddenly goes "NOPE" and collapses faster than my motivation after reading journal rejection emails. The GTP acts like structural duct tape - once it's hydrolyzed to GDP, the whole thing destabilizes and *POOF* - cellular infrastructure crisis! Your cell's internal transport system just pulled a disappearing act worthy of a magician with a PhD in chaos theory!

The obsessive methyl-adding chemist strikes again! Starting with humble methane (CH 4 ), our molecular mad scientist keeps substituting hydrogens with methyl groups like they're collecting Pokemon. By the time we reach tetramethylmethane (neopentane), things are getting chunky. Then tetratert-butylmethane enters the chat with TWELVE methyl groups, and suddenly we're in molecular McMansion territory. The final question mark perfectly captures that moment when chemistry asks, "But should we stop just because we physically can't continue?" It's like organic chemistry's version of "hold my beaker" gone terribly wrong!

The chemistry vs. biology representation gap is REAL! 😂 Chemists show off with their fancy Wittig reaction mechanism - all those electron-pushing arrows, intermediates, and mysterious "EWG" groups. Meanwhile, biologists are over here with their adorable Pac-Man style enzyme diagrams! The contrast is hilarious - one field needs a PhD to understand their "simple" reaction, while the other explains complex cellular processes with what looks like a hungry blue circle. And biochemists? They're the ultimate translators who understand BOTH languages - no wonder they've achieved godlike status in the science world!

The ultimate scientific heartbreak! Two brilliant minds collided but failed to bond. While physicists understand forces and biologists grasp cellular attraction, they couldn't create that elusive chemical reaction between them. The irony is delicious—surrounded by beakers and formulas, yet missing the most fundamental reaction of all! The scholarly cat's disappointed face says it all: sometimes even the smartest people can't synthesize a spark. Next time, maybe try dating a chemist?

The eternal chemistry dilemma! Our guy is torn between cyclohexane (the chunky circle-in-hexagon on the left) and benzene (the sleek hexagon with alternating double bonds on the right). Cyclohexane is the stable, saturated "nice girl" of organic chemistry, while benzene is the aromatic bad girl with those delocalized electrons that make chemists swoon! 💯 Every organic chemist has faced this choice - go with the predictable, stable compound or get mesmerized by those resonance structures? The heart wants what the heart wants... even if it's potentially carcinogenic! Chemistry dating is HARD.