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When opening a science textbook, fun is the last thing that comes to your mind. A brief moment of reminiscence takes you back to the sweaty school corridors and the ever-present anxiety of not having done your homework. But if you press pause on the moment in your memory where you’d read those odd science textbooks with the hardback covers, you’ll notice something weird. The infographics are the key word. How on earth did everybody think they were just fine?

Fast forward to today, and there’s a whole wave of adult people collecting such bizarrely captivating examples of science diagrams which may as well pass as some sort of colorful sketches by surrealist artists. No sense, no logic, no rules, just pure anything-goes kind of science-based improvisation.

And thanks to the hugely popular Twitter page "Science Diagrams that Look Like Sh*tposts," with an ever-growing audience of 754.3K followers, we now have some of the most solid winners in the funny and the weird departments. If you go “but why?” you can be sure you’re not alone, and that the science infographic is casting its spell on you.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

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Science Diagrams that Look Like S**tposts” Twitter page and the Facebook group which runs by the same name is a bizarre corner of the internet that collects illustrations so bizarre that it has earned a solid fanbase. The project has amassed 754.1K Twitter followers and 20,634 people on Facebook who like the page and come in for a daily weird and wonderful treat.

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It makes you wonder whether the publishers of these textbooks ever bothered to look at the content before submitting volumes upon volumes to print. But the internet is crazy about the s**tposting content that refers to the internet slang which means content of no value.

According to Urban Dictionary, “any content on the internet whose humor derives from its surreal nature and/or its lack of clear context” can be defined as a s**tpost. But it differs from a meme: “whereas a meme's humor comes from its repeatability, a s**tpost is funny simply because it isn't a predictable repetition of an existing form. S**tposts can become memes, but memes cannot become s**tposts.”

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Sum Guy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We know which nation uses other objects to measure other things... I won't say who because people will say I'm racist again

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Julia Atkinson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please tell me this is just one of a series comparing the heights of animals and literary icons

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Sum Guy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get it.. they are showing you how long things would be if the intestines were straight

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Sum Guy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like if I eat the unhealthy choices, I'll become a badass terminator kid... and if I eat healthy, I'll become Mark

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Miss Cris
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how engineers estimate te weigh of a cow. A very old joke that describes how we work (and it's 100% true! Literally).

Miss Cris
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A math scientist would chopped it in fine slices and a physics scientist would put it in a swimming pool to see how much water goes out.

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Daniel Marsh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a publisher having fun with an ages-old joke about physics.

Bacony Cakes
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

(commentator voice) AAAAND THEY'RE OFF! *slowly pan over to 5 horse-textured spheres rolling across a field*

Twisted
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My life has been changed for the better. Imagine... a spherical cow.. wow.

Lily Haskins-Vaughan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ohhhhh kay then. not really sure how to react to this one. Anyone else reminded of Aunt Marge in Harry Potter 2?

Heather Makemson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will consider it! I've considered it. It's fantastic and if you live in an area that floods its also a pretty accurate diagram of what a dead cow looks like after floating in putrid water for 3 or 4 days!

Mark Howell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lord help us when it farts. The solar system will be in global warming ;o)

Matheus Oliveira
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's Ms. Sphericow. She's not that good with burgers, but I heard her meatballs are remarkable! Oh, and her [roun]dairy products are super nice too!

Marcellus the Third
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a standard 1st y physics remark/joke. You need to simplify to get answers: To calculate trajectory of planets around the sun or moons around planets, you act as if each is a 'point mass' (a dot, size zero, with the right mass) which is obviously wrong ---- but it's the only way to get answers AND they're (surprisingly!) accurate. Hence always the question should we approximate the cow or horse as a point mass, or as a cube, or as a sphere --- in different contexts, different approximations give better results.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This on is quite helpful in understanding that typical world maps are misleading when it comes to country sizes.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This must be from a seagull instruction manual for Cornish Seagull. Kill you for a chip they will.

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Julia Atkinson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An illustration from "Chatting to Fish: a Breakthrough in Inter-Species Communication"

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Julia Atkinson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just transpose 'disgusted' and 'happy' and you have the story of 2020

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Julia Atkinson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ginger soared over the waves as Paul's frantic cries for help receded into the distance. He'd never really liked his owner anyway

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Julia Atkinson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The mother is now doing time for child endangerment and confusing a baby with optical illusions

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People... ik they said a soul patch is a good idea, but for the love of God... please no.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, I have seen this one in a text book. It is supposed to demonstrate the areas of different senses in the brain. It shows how big portions different senses take in the human brain.

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Julia Atkinson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This diagram replaced a colour photo which was deemed to be too harrowing

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