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The Great Cosmic Naming Crisis
Astronomy Universe Science Scientists
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The Great Cosmic Naming Crisis
Ancient Romans had the luxury of naming planets after their coolest gods, while modern astronomers are stuck with alphanumeric soup! Jupiter gets a majestic name befitting its massive size, but exoplanets get catalog numbers that sound like printer error codes. Imagine discovering a potentially habitable world and having to call it "OGLE-05-390L b" at conferences. No wonder that astronomer is facepalming while throwing darts—they're probably aiming at whoever designed the naming convention. Next groundbreaking discovery? Probably named HD-404-ERROR-PLANET-NOT-FOUND.

I See Nothing (But New Nomenclature)
Chemistry Academia Science
23 days ago 5.5K views 0 shares
I See Nothing (But New Nomenclature)
Just finished organic chemistry only to discover IUPAC decided to rename everything? Might as well be reading hieroglyphics. Nothing quite like mastering the art of calling a compound 4-methylhexan-2-one only for them to switch it to 2-oxo-4-methylhexane. Chemistry: where naming conventions are about as stable as nitroglycerin in a paint mixer.

The Great Mathematical Land Grab
Math Academia Science Scientists
1 month ago 5.0K views 0 shares
The Great Mathematical Land Grab
Poor John Venn, forever in Euler's shadow! Mathematicians know the pain—Leonhard Euler was the ultimate mathematical colonizer, slapping his name on everything from constants to functions to diagrams. The comic perfectly captures that one mathematician friend who insists on "well, actually"-ing every conversation with unnecessary precision. "Those aren't Venn diagrams, they're technically Euler diagrams!" Meanwhile, John Venn sits in the mathematical afterlife thinking, "I created one thing, and I can't even have that?" The mathematical equivalent of discovering a continent and having someone else's name on all the maps.

Just A Simple Device
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1 month ago 7.6K views 0 shares
Just A Simple Device
The scientific naming hierarchy in its natural habitat: Linguists: Meticulously crafting a standardized phonetic system for every conceivable language, including fictional Klingon and long-dead Sumerian. Very reasonable. Physicists/Engineers: "This revolutionary quantum computer? We're calling it... a device. That revolutionary fusion reactor? Also a device. The coffee maker I built that accidentally achieved cold fusion? You guessed it—device." Geologists: *grinding teeth* "Actually, we've decided the Earth's core is now 17% hotter and made of different elements than we thought last Tuesday. We'll probably change our minds again before your textbook finishes printing."

Organic Chemistry's Name Game
Chemistry Academia Science
2 months ago 8.6K views 0 shares
Organic Chemistry's Name Game
When organic chemists realize they've been bamboozled by fancy-named reactions! That face when you spend hours learning the "revolutionary" Deetz-Nudts mechanism only to discover it's just our old friend aldol condensation wearing a trench coat and fake mustache. Chemistry professors love to rename the same reaction fifty different ways just to watch students suffer through memorizing them all. The ultimate academic prank!

The Euler Monopoly: When One Mathematician Names Everything
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2 months ago 6.3K views 0 shares
The Euler Monopoly: When One Mathematician Names Everything
Poor John Venn, forever in Euler's shadow. The mathematical equivalent of showing up to a party where someone already claimed all the good snacks. Leonhard Euler was the original academic credit hog—the guy published over 900 papers and still wanted the diagrams too! At this point, mathematicians should just rename the field "Eulermetrics" and call it a day. What's next? Breathing becomes "Euler respiration"? The sun is now "Euler's light source"? The ultimate mathematical power move isn't solving equations—it's getting your name stamped on everything like some 18th-century Swiss branding genius.

New Nomenclature Dropped
Chemistry Science Academia
2 months ago 8.0K views 0 shares
New Nomenclature Dropped
Chemistry nerds getting excited over naming conventions is peak science culture! This meme shows the exact same chemical compound with two different naming systems - the IUPAC systematic name (3-amino-5-methyl-4-oxohexanoic acid) and the alternative nomenclature using Greek letters (β-amino-δ-methyl-γ-oxohexanoic acid). It's like when your friend gets a fancy new haircut but insists you call them by their full legal name instead of their nickname. The organic chemistry professor watching students struggle with both naming systems is somewhere cackling into their coffee mug right now.

The Quantum Naming Paradox
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3 months ago 10.2K views 0 shares
The Quantum Naming Paradox
Parents naming their kids after fictional characters get eye-rolls and hatred. Meanwhile, physicists' kids walk around with full legal names that double as dissertation titles. Imagine the roll call on the first day of school: "Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger?" Kid's simultaneously present and absent until the teacher observes him.