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Log Scales Are For Quitters

Physics Math Science Research

4 months ago 12.3K views 0 shares

Log Scales Are For Quitters

Linear scale enthusiast spotted in the wild! The stick figure needs approximately 1.6 kilometers of paper to properly display uranium's energy density (76,000,000 MJ/kg) alongside sugar (19 MJ/kg). That's what we call dedication to visual accuracy. Next time your grant proposal gets rejected, just explain you needed funding for a paper roll the length of Manhattan to make your graph "properly." Real scientists don't compress data—they just build bigger offices.

The Unholy Logarithm

Math Research Science Academia

5 months ago 11.9K views 0 shares

The Unholy Logarithm

Behold, the chaotic evil of data visualization. What you're witnessing is the mathematical equivalent of putting pineapple on pizza—technically permissible but morally questionable. Misaligned log scales are the kind of thing that would make your statistics professor develop a twitch. Sure, there's no explicit rule against it, just like there's no explicit rule against using Comic Sans in your dissertation... but some crimes against humanity don't need to be codified to be wrong.