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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

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

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I Am Still Worthy

Chemistry Academia Science
21 hours ago 16.3K views 0 shares
I Am Still Worthy
The eternal struggle of chemistry students everywhere! Bombing that organic chemistry exam with its impossible reaction mechanisms, but still having enough chemical literacy to laugh at periodic table jokes and electron configuration memes. It's that weird chemistry student paradox—failing to balance equations on paper but perfectly understanding why "Helium walks into a bar and the bartender says 'We don't serve noble gases here.' Helium doesn't react." Small victories in the world of molecular chaos!

Culturing The Microorganisms Of Modern Life

Biology Lab-life Science Research
15 hours ago 13.8K views 0 shares
Culturing The Microorganisms Of Modern Life
That moment when your microbiology hobby meets harsh reality! Your phone screen is basically a portable petri dish collecting bacteria from everywhere your fingers have been. But somehow, discovering that your DIY phone culture is worse than the floor samples from the lab is both a scientific revelation and a personal attack! Maybe it's time to invest in hand sanitizer instead of agar plates... Your phone is basically hosting its own microscopic civilization at this point!

The Fluorine Exclusion Policy

Chemistry Academia Science
21 hours ago 13.4K views 0 shares
The Fluorine Exclusion Policy
Chemistry textbooks and professors really do fluorine dirty! The meme perfectly captures how organic chemistry courses tend to skip over fluorine compounds and jump straight to chlorine, bromine, and iodine examples. Poor fluorine is getting the Drake rejection hand while the other halogens get the approving nod. Fluorine's extreme reactivity and strong C-F bonds make it behave differently in reactions, so it's often the awkward cousin nobody invites to the organic chemistry party. Next time you're flipping through an ochem textbook, count how many fluorine examples you find—you'll need exactly one hand!

Mathematicians And Their Fancy Equation Evasion Tactics

Math Academia Science
14 hours ago 13.3K views 0 shares
Mathematicians And Their Fancy Equation Evasion Tactics
Classic mathematician behavior. Start with "slope of the curve" - simple, intuitive. Then progress to limit definitions - respectable. But when those fail? Suddenly we're in formal distribution theory with fancy tuxedos and monocles, defining weak derivatives and test functions. Nothing says "I refuse to admit defeat" like inventing an entirely new mathematical framework just to solve your homework problem. The progression from basic calculus to "∀φ ∈ {good girls}" is the mathematical equivalent of bringing a nuclear weapon to a knife fight.

The Great Equalizer: Physics Edition

Physics Academia Science
22 hours ago 13.2K views 0 shares
The Great Equalizer: Physics Edition
Physics textbooks don't discriminate when it comes to destroying souls! That chapter on rotational motion has a special talent for making everyone feel equally incompetent. One minute you're confidently solving linear motion problems, the next you're staring at angular momentum equations wondering if you should've majored in art history instead. The universal struggle of watching your GPA spiral downward with each rotation... it's basically Newton's fourth law at this point.

Underwater Roommate Agreements Gone Wrong

Biology Oceanography Evolution
14 hours ago 12.5K views 0 shares
Underwater Roommate Agreements Gone Wrong
Just another day in marine biology where we casually discover that sea cucumbers have fish roommates living in their anuses that feast on their regenerating gonads. I've spent 15 years studying marine ecosystems, and somehow this symbiotic relationship still manages to be the most disturbing thing in the ocean. Makes you reconsider your career choices when you realize you're essentially documenting underwater butt parasites. And yet, my grant application simply calls it "investigating novel ecological niches." Prometheus stole fire from the gods and got his liver eaten daily as punishment. These fish just skipped straight to the eating part without the heroics.

Sophisticated Analysts

Math Academia
15 hours ago 11.3K views 0 shares
Sophisticated Analysts
Regular folks: "x equals zero." Mathematicians in formal wear: "The absolute value of x is less than epsilon for all epsilon greater than zero." Nothing says "I have a PhD" quite like taking a perfectly simple concept and expressing it in the most pretentious way possible. It's the mathematical equivalent of ordering "dihydrogen monoxide with frozen water crystals" instead of "water with ice." Pure academic peacocking at its finest.

More Than Meets The Equation

Math Ai Physics Tech
16 hours ago 11.2K views 0 shares
More Than Meets The Equation
When two people meet and discover they both love "transformers," but one's thinking of robots in disguise while the other's contemplating mathematical functions that map vector spaces. The equations shown (Q n , K h , V h , and a nm ) are from attention mechanisms in machine learning transformers - the architecture powering modern AI systems like ChatGPT. Meanwhile, Optimus Prime is busy saving the world from Decepticons. Dating tip for mathematicians: specify which transformers you're excited about. Saves awkward moments when you start explaining self-attention matrices and they were expecting discussions about Bumblebee.

What Flatearthers Think Of Themselves

Conspiracy Astronomy Earth-science Science
16 hours ago 11.0K views 0 shares
What Flatearthers Think Of Themselves
The look of pure intellectual superiority! That smug expression perfectly captures the Flat Earth mindset - convinced they've outsmarted thousands of years of science, countless satellite images, and literally every astronaut ever. Meanwhile, the rest of us are wondering how they explain ships disappearing hull-first over the horizon or why nobody's found the edge yet. The best part? They think they're playing 4D chess while the scientific community is playing checkers, but they're actually just playing with a frisbee and calling it a planet! 🌍

The Typography Crime Scene

Academia
16 hours ago 11.0K views 0 shares
The Typography Crime Scene
The typography wars rage on in academia! Nothing makes a design-conscious student's eye twitch faster than opening a syllabus formatted in Comic Sans. It's the typographic equivalent of showing up to a quantum physics conference wearing a clown costume and honking a horn after each equation! The font was literally created for comic books, people! Yet somehow it multiplies across university departments like bacteria in a forgotten petri dish. Typography nerds unite - we shall overthrow the Comic Sans regime one properly formatted PowerPoint at a time!

Hermitian Crab

Physics Math Science
10 hours ago 9.3K views 0 shares
Hermitian Crab
The mathematical pun here is exquisite. In quantum mechanics, a Hermitian operator equals its own conjugate transpose—essentially identical to itself when flipped. Similarly, this hermit crab equals... itself. The dagger symbol (†) represents the conjugate transpose operation, and the equal sign confirms our suspicion: this crustacean is indeed Hermitian. Eigenvalue problems just got significantly more adorable.

Linear Mandarin: When Math And Language Collide

Math Academia Science
9 hours ago 8.7K views 0 shares
Linear Mandarin: When Math And Language Collide
The mathematical horror of seeing Chinese characters arranged as a linear transformation matrix. What we're witnessing is the five traditional Chinese elements (gold/metal, wood, water, fire, earth) being transformed into a terrifying array of similar-looking characters through matrix multiplication. Linear algebra students having flashbacks right now. The therapy bills after seeing this will definitely not be linearly dependent.
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