Stick figures Memes

Newton's famous quote "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" gets a hilariously literal interpretation here. The comic explores all possible permutations of this metaphor - from a giant standing on Newton's shoulders (crushing him), to Newton giving a giant a shoulder to cry on (awkward), to Newton being a giant himself (nope), until finally landing on the correct interpretation: Newton intellectually standing on the achievements of his predecessors. Scientific progress in stick figure form - the peer review would be merciless.

The right-hand rule strikes again! This stick figure just wanted help with vector math and got the most literal demonstration possible. For those who missed linear algebra class: to find the direction of a cross product, you position your right hand with fingers pointing in the first vector's direction, curl them toward the second vector, and your thumb points in the cross product's direction. The silent thumbs-up response is pure mathematical genius - no equations needed, just basic anatomy. Physics students everywhere are having flashbacks to their professors dramatically waving hands around lecture halls.