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The Facebook page 'Science Memes' is a fun and engaging online project that blends numbers and equations with pop culture references, wordplay, and relatable real-life scenarios.

From the latest scientific discoveries to lab mishaps and academic struggles, the page offers a lighthearted perspective on subjects that are often stereotypically labeled as repetitive and boring.

With over 1.3 million followers, 'Science Memes' has become a popular destination for those who enjoy learning and laughing, so let's give it a go and see what it has been posting lately.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is Murphy's Law, which states that the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to provide a wrong answer. People love correcting people more than they like helping.

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On the surface, memes are a just source of entertainment – a way for people to express themselves through remixed templates of text, images, and videos. Some even call them the wallpaper of our social media feeds. And rightfully so — memes are everywhere on the internet and often provide us with a few minutes of idle, amusing fodder for procrastination during our day.

But they also have a serious side, according to researchers looking at modern forms of communication. They are a language in themselves, with a capacity to transcend cultures and construct collective identities between people. These sharable visual jokes can also be powerful tools for self-expression, connection, social influence, and even political subversion.

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Internet memes "are one of the clearest manifestations of the fact there is such a thing as digital culture," Paolo Gerbaudo, a reader in digital politics and director of the Centre for Digital Culture at Kings College London, told the BBC.

Gerbaudo described memes as a "sort of a ready-made language with many kinds of stereotypes, symbols, situations. A palette that people can use, much like emojis, in a way, to convey a certain content".

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According to Instagram, over one million posts mentioning the word "meme" were shared every day in 2020.

But the first one to use it was evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who coined the term in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, likening discrete pieces of human culture that propagate between people to genes.

Dawkins shortened the ancient Greek word "mimeme" – with an apology to his classicist colleagues – to meme, making it rhyme with "cream". He suggested that memes were melodies, ideas, catchphrases, or bits of information that leap from brain to brain through imitation, expediting their transmission. 

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Ozzyols
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had an art assignment I had forgotten about. I grabbed a bunch of tangled up clothes hangers from my room. I hung it on a hook in the studio, called it “Sudden impression of a bedroom wardrobe”, waxed lyrical on how it is about the futility of fast fashion and got an A for it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The day before the science fair I once picked some white narcissus flowers from our garden and stuck them in water with food coloring. (The flower sucks up the food coloring water and changes color) It's one of the oldest and easiest "experiments" ever. I put about 20% effort in to it but still got an A+. The year before I had spent weeks building electric circuits with my dad and creating an elaborate project. I only got an A for that one. I was SO glad when I aged out of having to do the yearly science fair!

ShaZam Beaubien
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

or 10 year old me at 9PM, telling mom I volunteered her to bake 60 cookies for class the next day ...

Anyone-for-tea?
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ha ha, that’s my excuse then for forgetting things in my fridge! Just waiting for that science project to come through!

ConstantlyJon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Literally 2 days ago my 12yo son tells us "so, I need to build a guillotine for a project that's due tomorrow." I'm sorry, what??

New Everywhere
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My 10y.o. is notorious for the last minute thing. As a result he has become VERY creative with what he can use at home. So good, that he made a web shooter that shoots little rolls of paper and a demagorgon that opens/closes out of cardboard for fun last weekend.

Id row
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also grabbing a forgotten potato with all it's freaky tendrils would have worked, too.

Vermontah
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When my daughter was in brownies she remembered she had a project due for the meeting we were leaving for in 5 minutes. She asked me for a wire hanger and grabbed the string loop for glasses and made a bow in the car. Before we left she sharpened a pencil and taped some craft feather on it. It was a sad looking project but kudos for quick thinking little McIver

andrea jennings
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Between my 7 kids I did more science fair projects the night before than I can count! Got ribbons on all but one. Then I learned how to do a 3rd grade project and a 8th grade one in the same night. My kids thought I was a genius! LoL Just remembered the 2or3 times I had to do my own science fair projects the night before. They actually turned out better than the ones I slaved over for weeks! When my youngest kid got out of highschool they gave me a scrapbook with all "my science fair ribbons" their stuff and my own! I also specialized in last-minute Halloween costumes!

Janet Graham
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I took some dead weeds and called them wheat - and won 2nd place, 7th grade

Valery Murdock
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read it and laughed and then saw it was Roy Wood Jr! Even better in his voice. 😆

Cheesedick Construcion
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At the eighth grade science fair I hooked up an aquarium pump and made out like it was how salt was mined underground. The kid next to me had a full rundown on DNA and a great looking double helix. And this was back in the sixties. He got the big prize and I got the Whaaaa?

BatPhace
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So glad my kids are out of school and I don't have to deal with 9pm Walmart runs for poster board and markers lol

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He used the term to highlight how human culture can replicate itself. In that sense, memes have been around probably since humans have had cultures they have shared. But we can also see the kernels of what makes modern internet memes so successful in ancient forms of pop culture.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I drove my mother home from the hospital after her double mastectomy for terminal cancer. We got the the house with all the family there for support. It was very subdued and depressing. A bird came to the feeder. I thought I'd change the subject and talk about the lovely bird, maybe lighten the mood: "Oh, look, you have Great Tits!" It lightened the mood...

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The “picture” of the exoplanets is mostly just light in different wavelenghts that passed through the planet’s atmosphere. Based on the wavelenght, we can roughly tell what elements are present on the planet but not accurately guess how it looks. Planets 5 billion kilometres away (those in our solar system) have been visited by probes that have sensitive equipment and they use indivisual images to map out the whole planet. Edit: Just added a small point I forgot to mention

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"We see the replication of mundane reality in many forms of art," said Idil Galip, a doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, and founder of the Meme Studies Research Network. "Even going back to, let's say, Hellenic times, you've got something like tragic theatre, that takes things that happen to you that are upsetting and real-life and makes them into comedic things, which is what memes do."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As some smart guy said once: "Chemistry is like cooking... but don't lick the spoon!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a story about a famous writer in my country, whose nephew once had to write a report on one of his novels for homework. The writer did the homework himself... and got a D!

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But with the arrival of the internet, memes have become a more tangible phenomenon that can be observed as they grow, spread, and mutate. Researchers at Facebook showed in a study just how widely memes posted on their platform can evolve. In one example, they found 121,605 different variants of one particular meme posted across 1.14 million status updates.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Security camera footage of me in bed ascending to heaven after realising I did that one maths question wrong

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Theory (I am a mathematician, but it's a theory, so no charge.): Cutting the bread diagonally makes some bites less efficient, as in less sandwich per bite. (At four places you are eating triangular bites half the areas of your usual squarish bites.) Therefore, more bites and so the illusion of more sandwich.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Simply change your name to "Et AL" and claim you've co-authored thousands of papers.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The statistic remains true. If you flip a coin 100 times, and it comes out heads 65 times, it doesn't mean you're more likely to get tails.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a time I could solve differential equations. And yes, nowadays I have completely forgotten how it works :D

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Meanwhile in the USA: "1 gram of diamond weighs something like 30 gallons and 7 degrees Fahrenheit."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No one has the same circumstances, the way his life turned out isn't the way your life will turn out, and the way his life turned out isn't necessarily bad.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

what’s a phenotype and what’s Mendelian genetics?? Edit: Thanks Helen, you’re the best :D

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The blackhole scene is kind of nonsense. He would’ve been spaghettified and died but it’s not like movies depict reality so I’ll let it slide

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have in my dating profile "Astronomers recently saw a black hole eat a star. That's so cool! If you agree, you're probably a good match." I love nerdy women.

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