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

That's actually a pretty cool projection and explains the misleading sizes shown on maps.

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

This one is much better than the other one in understanding the Mercator Projection.

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

When "mother nature" transforms into "bruh nature" Let the offerings begin in the form of lifted trucks, Bud Light & misspelled tattoos.

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

It looks like a close up of "Griffin" the sculpture of what humans designed to survive car wrecks would look like.

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

actually, this is good at showing how dumb the Mercator chart projection is

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

The Mercator projection is not dumb; it does its purpose which is to conserve the angle for the navigation. It was an acceptable compromise to not keep the areas. It is like using a fork for eating soup and said it is badly designed.

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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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