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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

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Even Particle Accelerators Celebrate Christmas

Physics Science Research Tech
22 hours ago 22.4K views 0 shares
Even Particle Accelerators Celebrate Christmas
Future physicists from 2025 are sending us a holiday greeting from the Large Hadron Collider! The control screen shows "NO BEAM" because everyone's gone home to celebrate, with a cute ASCII Christmas tree and "Fa La La" carols in the comments. Even particle accelerators deserve a holiday break! The red "false" indicators are basically the LHC's "Out of Office" reply. Smashing atoms can wait until January—right now it's time for smashing presents and eggnog!

The Neverending Conversation

Math
22 hours ago 22.4K views 0 shares
The Neverending Conversation
Poor Sharon (the number 6) is politely waiting for 3.1415 to finish speaking, but she's in for an eternal wait. Pi is literally irrational and will never, ever stop talking. Those decimal places go on forever without repeating. The mathematical equivalent of being trapped next to the office chatterbox with no escape button.

Banana Hysteresis

Physics Materials Research Science
21 hours ago 21.9K views 0 shares
Banana Hysteresis
Someone actually electroded a banana skin to measure its hysteresis loop. Peer review has officially slipped on a peel! This is what happens when physicists run out of grant money but still have a bunch of silver paste lying around. The scientific equivalent of "will it blend?" except it's "will it conduct electricity in a memory-dependent way?" Spoiler alert: your fruit salad is not a suitable replacement for computer memory, no matter how desperate your research gets.

Translation Is Not A Linear Operation

Math Tech Ai Science
23 hours ago 19.7K views 0 shares
Translation Is Not A Linear Operation
Mathematicians and computer scientists having existential crises when they realize language translation doesn't follow nice, clean transformation rules! The guy's horrified expression perfectly captures that moment when you discover your elegant algorithm can't handle "raining cats and dogs" in Mandarin. Translation is this beautiful chaos where context, culture, and idioms make a mockery of our beloved linear systems. Even Google Translate occasionally produces gibberish that would make Turing weep into his tea.

The Vacuous Truth Of Love

Math Science
17 hours ago 17.9K views 0 shares
The Vacuous Truth Of Love
The couple's sweet exchange about loving each other even as worms is ironically juxtaposed with a definition of vacuous truth—a logical statement that's technically true only because its condition can never be satisfied. Like saying "If I were a worm, you'd love me" is true because the person will never be a worm. It's the mathematical equivalent of promising to do the dishes when pigs fly. Relationship promises 🤝 logical fallacies.

Baking The Cosmos: Cygnus Constellation Cookie Edition

Astronomy Science
17 hours ago 17.7K views 0 shares
Baking The Cosmos: Cygnus Constellation Cookie Edition
Someone's been conducting kitchen astronomy without proper training! What we have here is a delicious demonstration of the Cygnus constellation (aka "The Northern Cross") rendered in cookie form. Those red sprinkles aren't random—they're perfectly placed to represent the major stars. Deneb at the top, Albireo at the bottom, and the rest of the stellar gang across the wings. This baker has clearly spent more time with star charts than recipe books. Next time you're feeling hungry during your stargazing session, just remember: constellations are approximately 0% edible and cookies are approximately 100% not visible through telescopes.

The Microscopic Atlas Of The Sea

Oceanography Biology Earth-science
14 hours ago 15.6K views 0 shares
The Microscopic Atlas Of The Sea
This meme brilliantly captures how the entire marine ecosystem rests on the microscopic shoulders of phytoplankton. These tiny photosynthetic organisms produce over 50% of Earth's oxygen while serving as the foundation of the oceanic food web. It's like watching a microorganism Atlas holding up the entire ocean instead of the sky. Next time you take a breath, remember to thank these invisible heroes who've been carrying the team since before fish thought swimming was cool.

He's Real!

Chemistry Physics Science
12 hours ago 13.9K views 0 shares
He's Real!
That moment when chemistry students discover Jesse Pinkman wasn't just Walter White's sidekick in Breaking Bad, but actually a pioneering quantum physicist... except he wasn't. This is the scientific equivalent of finding out your favorite band isn't real. The actual Jesse Pinkman was just a fictional meth cook, while the real quantum mechanics pioneers were busy calculating uncertainty rather than cooking blue crystals. Someone's clearly been experimenting with creative Wikipedia editing.

I Use The Kelvin Scale

Physics Science Chemistry
11 hours ago 11.6K views 0 shares
I Use The Kelvin Scale
That moment when you realize Kelvin minus 273.15 is just... Celsius! The shocked face says it all! Scientists have been using the absolute temperature scale (where zero means NO molecular motion whatsoever) while the rest of the world's just been like "yeah, water freezes at 0°C, what's the big deal?" It's basically like discovering your cool scientific unit was just wearing a trench coat and standing on the shoulders of regular temperature all along! The ultimate temperature bamboozle!

Electron Theft: The Real Oxidation Story

Chemistry Science Academia
11 hours ago 11.5K views 0 shares
Electron Theft: The Real Oxidation Story
That moment when your entire chemistry worldview gets shattered. For decades we've been taught "oxidation = adding oxygen" only to later discover it's actually about electrons being ripped away from atoms like wallets from tourists. The expression in the meme captures that existential chemistry crisis perfectly. First-year chemistry students everywhere are nodding vigorously while their professors smugly watch another generation have their minds blown by this electron heist definition. Next you'll tell me reduction isn't just about adding hydrogen!

Schrödinger's Scotty: Quantum Relationship Status

Physics Science
5 hours ago 5.1K views 0 shares
Schrödinger's Scotty: Quantum Relationship Status
This brilliant mashup of quantum physics and pop culture is chef's kiss perfect! The meme cleverly replaces Schrödinger's cat with "Scotty" from the song "Scotty Doesn't Know" (from the movie EuroTrip), creating a quantum superposition of romantic ignorance and knowledge. In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's thought experiment places a cat in a box with a radioactive atom that may or may not decay and trigger a poison release. Until observed, the cat exists in a superposition of states - simultaneously alive and dead. Similarly, poor Scotty exists in a superposition of knowing and not knowing about his girlfriend's infidelity until he "opens the box" (discovers the truth). The quantum uncertainty principle has never been applied so hilariously to teenage drama!

The Logic That Breaks Physics

Physics Engineering Science
5 hours ago 4.7K views 0 shares
The Logic That Breaks Physics
That moment when your brilliant "horse math" meets actual physics! Someone's proudly explaining that pregnant horses must run faster because they have "two horsepower," while their physics teacher is just internally dying like that disappointed seal. Horsepower doesn't stack like video game power-ups! Fun fact: one horsepower equals about 746 watts, and was invented by James Watt who measured the work of brewery horses. Your physics teacher is silently calculating how many detention hours this explanation deserves!
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