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Highway Robbery: The $60 Physics Textbook Experience
Physics Math Academia Science
4 days ago 6.2K views 0 shares
Highway Robbery: The $60 Physics Textbook Experience
Sixty dollars for a textbook that tells you 10 23 + 23 = 10 23 ? What a bargain! This is the perfect example of academic publishing's most brilliant business model: charging astronomical prices for stating the blindingly obvious with mathematical precision. Next chapter: "Water is wet, and here's a differential equation to prove it." Meanwhile, students are eating ramen for the fifth straight day to afford these profound insights. The real lesson here isn't about large numbers—it's about the large number of zeros in your bank account after buying the required reading.

X = 15 M/S (Apple Tech Demo)
Physics Tech Science
2 months ago 7.2K views 0 shares
X = 15 M/S (Apple Tech Demo)
Finally, Apple's "distinctly great" calculator has arrived! Just $999 for a device that visualizes projectile motion with stick figures playing ping pong. The formula at the bottom is literally just the standard projectile motion equation that every physics student has written a thousand times. But hey, it has an Apple Pencil, so clearly it's revolutionary! Next innovation: discovering gravity exists, but making it 30% thinner than Newton's version.

Or You Can Overnight It For $40
Engineering Lab-life Research Materials Science
3 months ago 8.6K views 0 shares
Or You Can Overnight It For $40
Every engineer knows the pain of needing that one specific part to finish a project, only to discover McMaster-Carr wants your firstborn child as shipping collateral. The meme perfectly captures Mr. Krabs (the ultimate capitalist crustacean) swimming in money while charging $10 to ship a single screw—a screw that probably costs 12 cents. The worst part? When your research deadline is tomorrow, you'll happily pay the $40 overnight fee while silently calculating how many ramen packets that equals. The scientific supply chain: where a tiny piece of metal is somehow worth its weight in gold!