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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Scientific debates Memes

Posts tagged with Scientific debates

Chemistry vs. Biology: The Classification Wars

Biology Science Academia Chemistry
2 months ago 5.7K views 0 shares
Chemistry vs. Biology: The Classification Wars
The chemistry-biology rivalry continues. Top panel: IUPAC chemists sitting in perfect order around a circular table, calmly discussing how to name some theoretical compound with 47 carbon atoms and functional groups that only exist in computer simulations. Bottom panel: Biologists literally brawling in the dirt because they can't agree if two nearly identical frogs that mated once in captivity constitute separate species or not. Chemists have a systematic naming convention; biologists have chaos and occasional fistfights behind the natural history museum.

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