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Can You Imagine A Neuron Wearing Pants?
Biology Science
24 days ago 26.2K views 0 shares
Can You Imagine A Neuron Wearing Pants?
The eternal question that keeps neurobiologists up at night! 🧠👖 A neuron has a cell body (soma), dendrites that receive signals, and an axon that sends them - making for some VERY complicated pants logistics! Option 1 puts pants on the dendrites and axon terminals, option 2 dresses just the axon like a fancy little leg, while option 3 goes full octopus-style with pants on EVERY branch! This is basically the neuroscience version of the "how would a dog wear pants" debate, but with way more branches to consider. The real question: would myelin sheaths count as socks?

Professional Perspectives On 2+2
Math Science Physics Academia
6 months ago 14.0K views 0 shares
Professional Perspectives On 2+2
The simple question "What's 2+2?" gets hilariously complicated when different professionals tackle it! 😂 Mathematicians confidently prove it's exactly 4, while engineers give you a practical range with error margins. Physicists flex with scientific notation (10¹ = 10, so they're saying "in the order of magnitude of 10" which is close enough for cosmic scales). My favorite might be the accountant asking "What do you WANT it to equal?" — creative accounting at its finest! And don't get me started on that politician promising to "look into this asap" without actually committing to an answer. This perfectly captures how our professional training shapes our thinking and communication. Same problem, wildly different approaches!

When Your Pchem Professor Shatters Your Reality
Chemistry Academia Science Physics
9 months ago 21.6K views 0 shares
When Your Pchem Professor Shatters Your Reality
The eternal struggle of physical chemistry students everywhere! That moment when your professor declares "PV=nRT is a lie" and your entire worldview crumbles faster than an unstable isotope. The ideal gas law works beautifully... until it doesn't! Those pesky real gases with their inconvenient molecular interactions and finite volumes refuse to play by the simple rules. Your textbook betrayed you, your calculator mocks you, and now you must venture into the terrifying realm of the Van der Waals equation. Next thing you know, you'll be telling people that Newtonian physics is just a convenient approximation!

The Cellular Superhero We All Need
Biology Medicine Science
5 months ago 17.6K views 0 shares
The Cellular Superhero We All Need
Oh, the molecular superhero we need but don't deserve! p53 is basically the Batman of your cells - it spots DNA damage from carcinogens and either repairs it or tells the cell to self-destruct before it turns cancerous. This sign is basically telling you to be vigilant against threats and take decisive action when needed! Your body has billions of these tiny guardians working overtime while you're busy scrolling memes. Next time you avoid sunburn or skip that 5th tequila shot, give a little nod to p53 - the protein that's prevented more catastrophes than we'll ever know!

The Physics Of Music: Just Vibing To Air Molecules
Physics Science
8 months ago 17.2K views 0 shares
The Physics Of Music: Just Vibing To Air Molecules
Ever notice how we took "air molecules bumping into each other in specific frequencies" and decided "yep, that's Bach's Symphony No. 5 right there"? The meme brilliantly reduces music—this complex emotional experience that moves us to tears—to just "air vibrating in patterns." Then shows our absurd response with that smug penguin basically saying "sounds great!" Human perception is wild. We're essentially vibing to atmospheric pressure fluctuations while pretending it's deep.

Lithium Is A Pathway To Many Abilities Some Consider To Be Unnatural
Chemistry Science Lab-life
7 months ago 13.4K views 0 shares
Lithium Is A Pathway To Many Abilities Some Consider To Be Unnatural
The dark side of chemistry is a pathway to many reactions. When lithium aluminum hydride (LiAlH 4 ) enters the lab, every functional group runs for cover. This powerful reducing agent doesn't negotiate with organic compounds - it transforms them with the ruthless efficiency of a Sith Lord. While stormtrooper-like functional groups (aldehydes, amides, esters) scramble in fear, Darth LiAlH 4 stands menacingly, ready to donate hydride ions faster than you can say "I am your father." Just keep it away from water unless you're planning to renovate your lab via explosion.

The Size Hierarchy Of Biology
Biology Science Research Academia
9 months ago 18.7K views 0 shares
The Size Hierarchy Of Biology
The size hierarchy in biology is too real! 😂 Regular biologists study things you can actually see, strutting around like buff Doge with their visible organisms. Meanwhile, microbiologists are squinting through microscopes at tiny bacteria like "yep, that dot moved!" But just wait until the nanobiologist shows up with their electron microscope trying to convince everyone they're looking at something important! It's basically the scientific version of "don't talk to me or my son or my son's son ever again." Size doesn't equal importance though - those tiny microbes and molecules are running the whole biological show behind the scenes!

Quantum Heresy: Down Quark Edition
Physics Science
1 day ago 16.3K views 0 shares
Quantum Heresy: Down Quark Edition
Physics students having existential crises is basically a rite of passage! The meme shows someone absolutely losing it after encountering d -2/3 notation, which refers to a down quark with a -2/3 electric charge. Plot twist: down quarks actually have a -1/3 charge, not -2/3! That's what makes this meme hilarious to particle physicists. It's like writing "H₂O₃" for water - the reaction is appropriate because the person just committed quantum heresy. The universe might actually implode if you wrote that on your particle physics exam.

Justice For Decimeter
Math Science
8 months ago 13.9K views 0 shares
Justice For Decimeter
The metric system's family drama on full display! While meters and centimeters get to be fierce, intimidating dragons, poor decimeters are stuck as the derpy middle child nobody remembers to use. Let's be honest - when was the last time you measured anything in decimeters? The forgotten unit sits awkwardly between its popular siblings, desperately trying to fit in with its tongue out like "notice me please!" Even scientists skip right over it, going from cm straight to m without a second thought. The ultimate middle child syndrome in measurement form!

Isle Of Man, But It's Boric Acid
Chemistry Science
9 months ago 15.6K views 0 shares
Isle Of Man, But It's Boric Acid
The chemical structure of boric acid (H₃BO₃) on a red background bears an uncanny resemblance to the Isle of Man's triskelion flag. Three hydrogens extending from oxygen atoms around a central boron atom - nature's own version of those famous running legs. Chemists probably giggle about this in lab meetings while everyone else wonders why they're laughing at a structural formula. Just another day of finding geography in molecular structures instead of actually finishing that publication.

Sweet Chemical Paternity
Chemistry Science
6 months ago 12.3K views 0 shares
Sweet Chemical Paternity
The evolution of describing your sugar daddy is getting ridiculously scientific! Starting with the slang term, then progressing through increasingly complex chemical nomenclature for sucrose (table sugar), until we reach the final boss level of organic chemistry that would make even PhD students weep! 🧪 It's like watching someone transform from "I know some chemistry" to "I've memorized entire IUPAC nomenclature textbooks and I'm not afraid to use them." The last entry with stereochemistry notation is basically the chemical equivalent of showing off your final form—complete with cosmic brain expansion imagery! Next time someone asks what you study, just recite that bottom line and watch their soul leave their body!

They Keep Saying That
Astronomy Universe Physics Science
6 months ago 14.8K views 0 shares
They Keep Saying That
Cosmologists announcing that "something is fundamentally wrong with our understanding of the universe" is basically their version of "new phone, who dis?" The Hubble tension—where different measurement methods give conflicting expansion rates—has been the awkward family dinner conversation of astrophysics for years. Now JWST shows up with its fancy infrared cameras and is like "yeah, it's even worse than we thought!" Meanwhile, theoretical physicists are in the corner whispering, "Have you tried adding another dimension? Dark energy with attitude? What about spicy dark matter?" The universe keeps trolling us with its cosmic mysteries, and we're all just pretending we'll figure it out eventually.