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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Conventions Memes

Posts tagged with Conventions

If Only We Had Asymmetric Hands To Communicate Our Conventions

Physics Science Scientists
3 months ago 6.8K views 0 shares
If Only We Had Asymmetric Hands To Communicate Our Conventions
Imagine trying to teach a physics student the right-hand rule with perfectly symmetrical hands. "Which right hand? They're identical!" Chirality and handedness are fundamental to how we understand physical laws—from cross products in electromagnetism to spin in quantum mechanics. Without asymmetric hands, physicists would be frantically inventing new mnemonics while medieval farmers apparently just... farm normally? The true crisis of symmetrical hands isn't the lack of agricultural progress—it's that physicists couldn't smugly twirl their fingers around to explain magnetic fields!

The Great Chemistry Notation Divide

Chemistry Science Academia
3 months ago 6.9K views 0 shares
The Great Chemistry Notation Divide
The chemistry crowd goes wild! Two booths selling exactly the same molecular weight (107.87 g/mol), but one writes it as "g/mol" and the other as "g mol -1 " — and guess which one is sitting alone? 😂 It's the perfect representation of scientific notation wars! The crowd flocks to the familiar notation while the technically equivalent but less commonly used superscript notation gets ghosted. Poor mol -1 guy is experiencing the chemical equivalent of bringing a calculator to a party where everyone's doing mental math.

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