Tofu Memes

Physics textbooks: making students cry since forever, but apparently making excellent tofu presses! The legendary co-author Roger Freedman swoops in with peak professor energy, turning a kitchen hack into an impromptu physics lesson about normal forces and bulk stress. Nothing says "I've internalized my textbook" quite like using it to squeeze water from bean curd while the author watches and grades your technique. The duality of physics textbooks—traumatizing by day, culinary assistant by night!

Physics textbooks: bringing students to tears since forever. But the real MVP here is Roger Freedman, co-author of that infamous torture device disguised as educational material, who's out here turning Twitter into his personal office hours. When someone uses his physics textbook to press tofu (the ultimate academic dishonor), Freedman doesn't get mad—he gets technical. "Actually, you're applying a normal force (Chapter 4) and increasing bulk stress (Chapter 11)." That's not just a comeback, that's a full academic citation in the wild! This is what happens when physicists use social media. They can't help themselves. Everything is a teaching moment, even your dinner prep.

Twitter: "Last book that made you cry?" Student: "University Physics with Modern Physics 14th Edition by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman" The actual author responds: "No doubt tears of joy." Random person: "I used this book to press my tofu tonight. It brought me joy." Author again: "In pressing your tofu, you were applying a normal force (Chapter 4) and increasing the bulk stress on the tofu (Chapter 11). Well played!" Physics textbooks: simultaneously devastating students' will to live and perfectly compressing soybean curds since 1949. The duality of science!