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Everyone has their favorite brand of humor. For those who love science, the posts you’re about to see are likely right up your alley.
We’ve collected posts from the Darker Side of Science Facebook group. While it does feature some shocking facts, we focused on the lighthearted memes about the anatomy of a giraffe, chemistry puns, and astronomy jokes worth a punchline drumroll (ba dum tss!).
Browse through this list and have a few chuckles with like-minded peers.
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The public group currently has a little over 893,000 members. According to its About page, topics mainly revolve around “bad experiments, worse scientists, studies you wish to god you could unsee, and much, much, more.”
In addition to these photos and memes, the page also shares articles from IFLScience. This website delivers information in an entertaining yet educational way.
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Chihuahua Mama 5 months ago
Wow, the government really fooled you into thinking there's a moon, or even outer space. It's just a big wall paper in the sky that they move around
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Since the group combines the concepts of science and humor, let’s get into what makes things funny, according to research.
University of Colorado professor Dr. Peter McGraw and his colleagues developed the benign violation theory. Simply put, it states that a comedic element exists in a tragic event only after a significant amount of time has passed.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 5 months ago
Good thing happened with a molecule and not an atom. Things could blow out of proportion...
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 5 months ago
Of course we are better! It took a rock from space to wipe out the dinosaurs. But we can wipe *ourselves* out!
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Dr. McGraw and his team conducted an experiment where participants unanimously saw humor in getting hit by a car if it happened five years ago.
“There needs to be something wrong,” McGraw said in an interview with ZME Science. “That’s what’s sort of the counterintuitive part of humor. It’s generally this good, beneficial thing, but it has its roots in potentially negative experiences.”
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Sava Hax 5 months ago (edited)
There's no way we are. this is something I choose to believe, maybe somewhere there's a civilisation that already colonised their neighbouring planet. And formed two entirely different cultures and they visit each other and are peaceful. After the war for independence obviously
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Many people find a reason to laugh at supposedly inappropriate scenarios. According to Dr. McGraw, dark humor works because of psychological distance. He used the story about the Indonesian baby who smoked 40 cigarettes a day as an example.
“When I was first told about that, I laughed, because it seems unreal — what parent would let their kids smoke cigarettes?” McGraw said. “The fact that the situation seemed unbelievable made it benign. Then when I saw the video of this kid smoking, it was no longer possible to laugh about it.”
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Humor has been deemed an effective method of delivering scientific information. A 2013 study featured a stand-up comedy project in Portugal that involved a group of scientists.
Researchers said tackling serious matters like climate change became easier because “laughter disarms people.”
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John Mosley 5 months ago
Apparantly that's what the sanitation companies are already doing with all our trash. What am I even sorting for!?
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Cat_Whisperer 5 months ago
For some people, their @ss and mouth are *still* the same hole.
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UncleJohn3000 5 months ago
Everyone reading these words is concealing a small bag of vomit on their person.
Aisling Raye 5 months ago
(Not so) fun fact. Some people bleed from their belly button during their period.
Kelly H. Wilder 5 months ago
Wow! I was quite skeptical of this, so I looked it up. It sounds so horrible. It's called umbilical endometriosis. I know how awful normal endometriosis is. This takes that up a notch. Hugs for any pandas so affected!
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Ece Cenker 4 months ago
And on top of that I learned yesterday that "humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop in the womb the a**s forms before any other opening. Which basically means at onepoint you were nothing but an A-hole." Yes, it was a meme.
Ozymandias73 5 months ago
that..ugh. Now I can see my bellybutton sucking on the cord like a straw. Yes, I have strange imagination.
The entertainment industry has also successfully blended science and humor through content dedicated to kids.
A research paper published by science education consultant Dr. Sai Pathmanathan mentioned popular cartoons like Spongebob SquarePants and Phineas and Ferb as examples of how they helped U.K. children learn general knowledge.
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Penguin Panda Pop 5 months ago
Almost certainly multiple people tried to domesticate bears. This is how natural selection works.
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Chihuahua Mama 5 months ago
Hey, at least you can stare directly at the apocalypse all you want. It won't matter if you fry your retinas
Neuroscientist, comedian, and former columnist Dean Burnett advocates for learning science through humor. Here’s his explanation in an interview with From the Lab Bench.
“If people can laugh with/about science, then they won’t be as intimidated by it, and will perceive that science is a very human endeavor,” he said. “Not some monolithic process hiding behind the walls of academia and curated by emotionless intellectuals.”
However, Burnett is against forcing people to create humor, especially if it doesn’t come naturally.
“Humor being so subjective and emotive, a person to whom it isn’t ‘natural’ trying to do funny in a half-assed way can be much more grating or off-putting than them just presenting their info straight,” he said. “[It] should be seen as a useful tool, rather than a requirement.”
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 5 months ago
Oh chemistree, oh chemistree! You truly make up everything...
Burnett offers one piece of advice on using humor effectively to deliver scientific information: make it relatable.
“Assume the audience is at least as smart as you are, but doesn’t know what you know. This is a useful rule for making sure you are informative but not preachy, and not condescending.”
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troufaki13 5 months ago
You should be glad they didn't make you choose the pictures that show red traffic lights. IN BLACK AND WHITE!
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Colin Matthews 5 months ago
I like to think they just keep walking and then look around and go…woohhh how did I get up here???
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troufaki13 5 months ago
Try putting the accent on "u", or say "Ouranόs" which is the greek pronunciation
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ElfVibratorGlitter 5 months ago
Doesn't believe in laser pointers? Nah, I think he's just part cat and can't deal with the red dot without losing his mind.
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Korthias 5 months ago
Fun Fact: The vikings used to put the bones of their enemies into the smelting pot for crafting their weapons, believing their souls would make the weapons stronger. In reality, the minerals in the bones would mix with the iron to create....steel so did indeed make their weapons stronger, just not in the way they thought
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Stephanie Did It 5 months ago
Jessica, I love your ring but isn't the relationship kind of over?
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Wick E. Scratch 5 months ago
Is it pedantic and/or incorrect to think both cats should have the same face?
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Rosemary Van Dongen 5 months ago
This is wonderful! I have forwarded it to my computational chemist daughter, my physicist mechanical engineer son and my electronic/electrical engineer husband. I hope it will distract them from their poverty and life insecurity!
Jude Laskowski 5 months ago
But you're the only one who can cook and balance a checkbook.
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Patricia Bryan 5 months ago
I understood some of them from reading science fiction..that last one about one particle being in two places at once....I think...
Rosemary Van Dongen 5 months ago
This is wonderful! I have forwarded it to my computational chemist daughter, my physicist mechanical engineer son and my electronic/electrical engineer husband. I hope it will distract them from their poverty and life insecurity!
Jude Laskowski 5 months ago
But you're the only one who can cook and balance a checkbook.
Load More Replies... Patricia Bryan 5 months ago
I understood some of them from reading science fiction..that last one about one particle being in two places at once....I think...
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