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From Beaks To Headlamps: Medical Evolution
Medicine Science
9 hours ago 3.9K views 0 shares
From Beaks To Headlamps: Medical Evolution
From plague doctor to Patrick Star with a headlamp—medical science has truly evolved! The 17th century brought us bird-masked physicians stuffing their beaks with herbs to ward off "bad air," while modern medicine gives us... *checks notes*... cartoon starfish playing doctor. Pretty sure neither one would pass board certification! The terrifying beak mask was actually an early attempt at PPE during plague outbreaks, filled with aromatic substances believed to purify air. Meanwhile, modern doctors have fancy N95 masks and still complain about the elastic hurting their ears. The struggle continues, just with better lighting!

I'm Just There For Attendance
Academia
10 hours ago 4.2K views 0 shares
I'm Just There For Attendance
The pandemic learning gap strikes again! Someone actually paid attention during a Zoom class and the rest of us are SHOOK. While most of us were perfecting the art of looking engaged with cameras off (or mastering the strategic unmute-to-say-"thanks-professor"-then-immediate-mute technique), this note-taking overachiever just exposed our collective academic crimes. The true hero here isn't just sharing notes—they're shattering the illusion that any of us were doing more than counting ceiling tiles during virtual lectures. The digital equivalent of "wait, there was homework?" just hit an entirely new level!

An Apology By The Physics Community
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16 hours ago 4.1K views 0 shares
An Apology By The Physics Community
The pandemic really humbled the physics community! While biologists and chemists were front and center battling COVID-19, developing vaccines and treatments, physicists were suddenly... not the heroes of the scientific narrative. For decades, physicists dominated scientific discourse with their grand unified theories and particle accelerators, often looking down on "softer" sciences. Then COVID hit, and suddenly those biochemistry classes everyone skipped became pretty darn important. Nothing like a global pandemic to make you realize that understanding proteins might be slightly more urgent than string theory. The physicists' collective "perhaps I treated you too harshly" is basically science's version of "sorry I was a jerk in high school, you're actually cool now."

The Original Work From Home Success Story
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1 day ago 8.4K views 0 shares
The Original Work From Home Success Story
The original remote worker productivity flex! While everyone else was busy dying of plague, Newton's sitting at home like "might invent calculus today, idk." The rest of us used our pandemic lockdown to bake sourdough and watch Tiger King, meanwhile this guy revolutionized mathematics and physics during his WFH period. That "It's showtime..." reaction is every modern remote worker planning to change their Slack status to "focusing" before proceeding to do absolutely nothing revolutionary whatsoever. Newton didn't even need Zoom—just an apple and some serious galaxy brain energy.

Frogs Celebrate Their Pandemic Pardon
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2 days ago 11.5K views 0 shares
Frogs Celebrate Their Pandemic Pardon
The frogs are celebrating because they've just escaped their grim fate as dissection specimens! During the COVID pandemic, biology classes were canceled, giving these amphibian friends a surprise reprieve from the scalpel. The meme cleverly shows Kermit's emotional journey from concerned (hearing about the virus), to processing the news (wait, no biology class?), to absolute jubilation (realizing he won't be pickled in formaldehyde). Talk about a silver lining! The scientific name "Rana Tigrina" in the suggested title refers to the Indian Bullfrog, which is commonly used in classroom dissections - making these frogs' celebration even more personal. Freedom has never looked so green!