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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

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The Element Of Surprise Vs. Pocket Monsters

Chemistry Science Academia
19 hours ago 16.8K views 0 shares
The Element Of Surprise Vs. Pocket Monsters
Chemistry students weeping over 118 elements while Pokémon trainers gleefully memorize 1000+ fictional creatures with their types, evolutions, and move sets. The true intellectual flex of our generation isn't reciting the lanthanides—it's knowing which Eevee evolution works best against Gyarados. Meanwhile, professors still wonder why students can't remember if potassium is K or P. Priorities, people!

Legasov Disliked This

Physics Engineering Science
19 hours ago 15.7K views 0 shares
Legasov Disliked This
The darkest gaming setup in history! Someone created a parody account pretending to be Anatoly Dyatlov (the supervisor during the Chernobyl disaster) asking people to "rate my gaming setup" while showing the control room of a nuclear reactor. The response rating of "3.6" is the infamous radiation reading from Chernobyl that was drastically underreported because their meters maxed out at that number. The actual levels were catastrophically higher—like claiming your PC runs at "just 90°C" because your thermometer can't display triple digits. Nuclear meltdown jokes are radioactively funny, but thankfully this gaming rig only melts GPUs, not reactor cores!

The Shocking Truth About Steam Turbines

Physics Engineering Tech
19 hours ago 15.6K views 0 shares
The Shocking Truth About Steam Turbines
Ever seen a cat have an existential crisis after discovering how power plants work? This furry engineer just realized that steam turbines are basically fancy kettles spinning really fast! The wide-eyed shock is every physics student's face when they discover that our "revolutionary" energy technology is just spicy water making wheel go brrr. Next up: cat discovers nuclear reactors are just expensive water heaters!

Topology Crisis: When Your Universe Is A Donut

Math Universe Science Physics
19 hours ago 15.6K views 0 shares
Topology Crisis: When Your Universe Is A Donut
The ultimate perspective joke! While humans gaze upon our spherical Earth with wonder, poor Pac-Man is confronted with a torus-shaped maze that must be absolutely mind-bending from his 2D perspective. This is actually a brilliant nod to topology in mathematics—where a donut and a coffee mug are considered equivalent shapes (both have exactly one hole). Pac-Man's confusion perfectly captures the existential crisis of discovering your universe is actually a completely different geometric structure than you thought. Imagine if we suddenly discovered our universe was shaped like a Klein bottle!

The Lowest Alcohol Hypothesis

Chemistry Science
14 hours ago 12.6K views 0 shares
The Lowest Alcohol Hypothesis
What happens at 3 AM when chemistry students can't sleep. The question is both brilliant and ridiculous – technically, water (H₂O) has an -OH group with hydrogen attached, which is the functional group definition of an alcohol. But calling water "the lowest alcohol" is like calling your cat "the smallest tiger" – technically sharing a classification but missing the entire practical point. The organic chemistry professor in me wants to both award extra credit and assign remedial homework simultaneously.

Is There A Doctor In The House?

Math Academia Science
14 hours ago 12.5K views 0 shares
Is There A Doctor In The House?
The ultimate academic flex gone wrong! A mathematician's response to a medical emergency showcases the beautiful disconnect between theoretical knowledge and practical application. When asked about the dying friend, our math PhD instantly calculates "minus one" - technically correct in mathematics (life - 1 = death), but spectacularly useless in an emergency. This is what happens when you bring differential equations to a first aid situation. The bottom image perfectly captures the chaos that ensues when theoretical expertise meets real-world crisis. This is why we don't call mathematicians when someone stops breathing!

That Fundamental Asymmetry Face

Physics Science Universe
13 hours ago 12.2K views 0 shares
That Fundamental Asymmetry Face
That face when someone brings up CP violation at a dinner party and you have to explain why antimatter doesn't mirror matter perfectly. Look, I just wanted to enjoy my wine, not discuss how the universe has a fundamental asymmetry that saved existence as we know it. Next thing you'll tell me is that you have "questions" about the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix. Please pass the breadsticks instead.

Flag Of Japan But In The L0 Norm

Math Science
13 hours ago 12.0K views 0 shares
Flag Of Japan But In The L0 Norm
For those who slept through linear algebra, this is peak math humor. The Japanese flag normally features a red circle on white background, but in the L0 norm, we don't care about magnitude—only whether something is non-zero. So that perfect circle becomes a cross because the L0 norm essentially counts the number of non-zero elements. It's basically what happens when mathematicians try to be efficient: "Why use many pixels when few pixels do trick?" Next time someone asks why math matters, just show them how it can transform international symbols with a single notation change.

The Mitochondria Is The Powerhouse Of The Cell Was The Biggest Lie Of My Childhood

Biology Science Academia
20 hours ago 11.4K views 0 shares
The Mitochondria Is The Powerhouse Of The Cell Was The Biggest Lie Of My Childhood
Primary school: "The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell!" *happy innocent face* College: *sobbing face* "Here's the actual cellular respiration process involving glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation, Krebs cycle, and electron transport chain with 30+ enzymes, cofactors, and intermediates that will be on your exam Monday." That simplified mitochondria line is like being told babies come from storks, then suddenly having to perform a C-section. The biochemical betrayal is real!

Schrödinger's Sassy Cat

Physics Science Scientists
20 hours ago 11.3K views 0 shares
Schrödinger's Sassy Cat
The ultimate quantum physics prank gone wrong! This meme brilliantly skewers Schrödinger's famous thought experiment where a cat in a sealed box exists in a superposition of states - both alive and dead simultaneously until observed. But here's the twist - the cat is clearly alive and vocally protesting its theoretical demise. The scientist's existential crisis meets feline sass that basically translates to "I'm right here, you pretentious nerd." Quantum mechanics: where cats refuse to cooperate with your paradoxes.

Japan Is Topologically Open

Math Science
8 hours ago 7.2K views 0 shares
Japan Is Topologically Open
The Japanese flag just got a topology upgrade. That mathematical statement translates to "Japan is an open set" - meaning for any point in Japan, there's some tiny neighborhood around it that's still in Japan. The dashed boundary on the red circle is the mathematician's way of saying "we don't include the border" - just like how mathematicians insist on making simple concepts incomprehensible to normal humans. Next semester: proving why sushi rolls are topologically equivalent to donuts.

Technically Incorrect Inspirational Quotes

Astronomy Science
8 hours ago 6.9K views 0 shares
Technically Incorrect Inspirational Quotes
The saying "darkest before dawn" gets absolutely demolished by actual astronomy! The diagram shows night darkness peaks at astronomical midnight (when the sun is directly opposite your location), not before sunrise. That inspirational quote is scientifically inaccurate garbage—darkness follows a predictable curve based on solar angle below the horizon. Nautical, civil, and astronomical twilight are precisely defined by degrees (6°, 12°, 18°). Next time someone tries to comfort you with that phrase, just show them this diagram and watch their existential crisis unfold in real-time.
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