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Math Majors Be Like

Math Academia
18 hours ago 16.2K views 0 shares
Math Majors Be Like
The eternal struggle of math majors! Even the most basic arithmetic statement like "1+1=2" requires rigorous proof and citation. While everyone else accepts this as obvious, mathematicians are screaming "SOURCE?" because they've been traumatized by professors demanding formal proofs for seemingly self-evident truths. Principia Mathematica literally took 362 pages to prove 1+1=2. The rage-face perfectly captures that moment when your non-math friends casually state mathematical "facts" without formal verification. Pure mathematical trauma in one image!

Electron's Existential Crisis

Physics Science
18 hours ago 15.8K views 0 shares
Electron's Existential Crisis
When you're just a subatomic particle trying to mind your own business but suddenly realize someone's measuring your position! This meme perfectly captures quantum mechanics' observer effect—electrons literally change behavior when we look at them. One second you're happily existing as a probability wave, the next you're forced to pick a specific location because some physicist got curious. Talk about performance anxiety! Schrödinger's cat gets all the fame, but electrons have been dealing with this existential crisis since 1924.

When A Number Looks Like It Should Be Prime

Math
18 hours ago 15.2K views 0 shares
When A Number Looks Like It Should Be Prime
That moment when you're staring at a suspiciously large number that feels prime, but your mathematical spidey-sense tingles. Is it divisible by 7? Maybe 17? The existential dread of number theory hits hard when you realize you've spent 20 minutes trying to factorize what turns out to be 119 (7×17). Nothing crushes the mathematical soul quite like discovering your "special" number is just two primes in a trenchcoat.

The Purr-fect Binomial Expansion

Math Science
18 hours ago 15.1K views 0 shares
The Purr-fect Binomial Expansion
The perfect mathematical representation of cat multiplication! When you expand the binomial (a+b)² you get a² + b² + 2ab... which is exactly what we're seeing here! One black cat (a² + b²) and one tabby cat (2ab) demonstrating the binomial theorem in the most adorable way possible. Even cats understand algebra better than most of us! Next time your math teacher asks for a practical example of the FOIL method, just show them this purr-fect illustration. Who said math couldn't be cute?

About To Go Nuclear

Physics Chemistry Science
13 hours ago 12.1K views 0 shares
About To Go Nuclear
The existential crisis of an atom being accused of fabricating its entire existence. Ironic, considering atoms literally make up everything. That poor nucleus is probably thinking, "I'm composed of fundamental particles held together by strong nuclear forces, and this is the thanks I get?" Classic relationship breakdown at the subatomic level.

Multiplying Large Primes: Cryptography's Beautiful Nightmare

Math Tech Science Engineering Research
13 hours ago 11.9K views 0 shares
Multiplying Large Primes: Cryptography's Beautiful Nightmare
The entire foundation of modern internet security is built on this mathematical paradox! Multiplying two huge prime numbers? Easy peasy, even my calculator can do it. But trying to work backward and figure out which primes were multiplied together? That's computational torture! Cryptographers are the mad scientists who turned this mathematical headache into digital gold. RSA encryption basically says "I'll show everyone the product, good luck figuring out the factors!" *maniacal laughter* Your online banking thanks these number-loving weirdos every single day!

The Scientific Hierarchy Balanced On Four Paws

Physics Math Science Research
13 hours ago 11.7K views 0 shares
The Scientific Hierarchy Balanced On Four Paws
This tiny chihuahua is literally demonstrating how science works! Physics sits on top (wearing a fancy hat because it's the show-off of sciences), while it's all balanced on multiple cans of Math. And notice that tiny "Empirical Evidence" label? That's the secret sauce holding everything together! Without actual evidence, the whole scientific framework would collapse faster than my motivation during finals week. It's basically the perfect visualization of how theoretical physics needs both mathematical foundations and real-world evidence to stand up!

When You're The Powerhouse But There Is No Power Supply

Biology Science
12 hours ago 11.5K views 0 shares
When You're The Powerhouse But There Is No Power Supply
The existential crisis of a mitochondrion without glucose is truly tragic. "The powerhouse of the cell" suddenly becomes "the unemployed factory worker of the cell." Without its precious glucose fuel, it's sitting there like a Ferrari with an empty tank, desperately wanting to make ATP but having nothing to work with. The cellular equivalent of showing up to work only to find the office building locked and everyone laid off. No glycolysis upstream means no pyruvate delivery, and that's how you get a metabolic drama worthy of cellular Shakespeare.

Quantum Dating: Breaking Heisenberg For Love

Physics Science
12 hours ago 11.2K views 0 shares
Quantum Dating: Breaking Heisenberg For Love
Dating advice from quantum physics! 💘 The meme hilariously plays on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which states you can't simultaneously know both a particle's exact position AND momentum. It's physically impossible! Yet here's our quantum rebel claiming to break fundamental physics just to impress potential dates. Good luck finding someone who appreciates both your precise measurements AND your complete disregard for the laws of quantum mechanics! Maybe she's discovered a quantum loophole the rest of us missed? Nobel Prize and hot date in one day? Now that's efficiency!

Engineering Degree: Now Supporting TVs

Engineering Academia Chemistry
19 hours ago 10.6K views 0 shares
Engineering Degree: Now Supporting TVs
Engineering students know the pain! When your textbooks are so expensive and thick that they become structural support for your electronics. That chemical engineering textbook alone probably cost half a semester's food budget. The face says it all: "I didn't spend $300 on 'Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering' to turn it into furniture, but here we are." College bookstores should just rebrand as "Overpriced Building Materials Inc."

The Empire Strikes Back: LiAlH₄ Edition

Chemistry Science Lab-life
19 hours ago 10.6K views 0 shares
The Empire Strikes Back: LiAlH₄ Edition
Organic chemists tiptoeing around with their functional groups until lithium aluminum hydride (LiAlH₄) shows up like Darth Vader and obliterates everything! That's some serious reducing agent energy right there. LiAlH₄ doesn't negotiate with functional groups - it just aggressively donates electrons and reduces them all to submission. Aldehydes, ketones, esters? Demolished. Carboxylic acids? Annihilated. It's basically the Death Star of reduction reactions, turning complex organic compounds into alcohols faster than you can say "May the force be with your reaction yield."

Quantum Physics Broke This Man's Brain

Physics Science
19 hours ago 10.6K views 0 shares
Quantum Physics Broke This Man's Brain
Quantum physics just broke this man's brain! The meme perfectly captures that moment when you first learn about Schrödinger's cat thought experiment and your mind implodes. Schrödinger actually created his famous cat-in-a-box scenario to show how ridiculous quantum superposition sounds when applied to everyday objects. The idea that something could exist in multiple states simultaneously until observed was meant to highlight the absurdity of quantum mechanics, not support it! The reaction face is every physics student ever when the professor drops the "measurement collapses the wave function" bomb. That look of pure confusion is universal in quantum mechanics classrooms worldwide. Even Einstein struggled with this stuff, calling it "spooky action at a distance." Next time someone tries to explain quantum mechanics at a party, just make this face and walk away. Trust me, it's the only sane response!
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