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Yippee! It's Boiling Water Again!

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7 months ago 68.9K views 0 shares

Yippee! It's Boiling Water Again!

The eternal cycle of renewable energy innovation! Every budding scientist dreams of revolutionizing the energy sector until they realize they've just reinvented the steam engine. Steam power has been the backbone of electricity generation since the 1880s—we just keep finding fancier ways to boil water. Nuclear? Boiling water. Coal? Boiling water. Concentrated solar? You guessed it... boiling water. The excited "Yippee!" is the perfect cherry on top of our collective technological déjà vu. Even with our fancy degrees and billion-dollar research budgets, we're still basically sophisticated kettle operators.

Nothing Is New Under The Academic Sun

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1 year ago 23.7K views 0 shares

Nothing Is New Under The Academic Sun

Ever felt that crushing disappointment when your "groundbreaking" research idea turns out to be something someone already published during the Reagan administration? The academic equivalent of showing up to prom in the same dress as your nemesis—except your nemesis is a paper from 1987 with 342 citations. Scientific progress is just parking lots all the way down. You think you've found a prime spot, but nope—some professor emeritus with elbow patches and a pipe already parked there 40 years ago. And they probably did it with nothing but a slide rule and pure caffeine-fueled spite.