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The Most Advanced Biological Organ Gets Its Award

This meme opens with a textbook snippet labeled Figure 1.17 that states, "Although the brain looks like a heaping mound of mush, it is the most advanced biological organ in the known universe." Below the text is an edited photograph of Barack Obama during a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, where both Obama's face and the face of the person receiving the medal have been replaced with stock photos of a human brain. The humorous punchline visualizes the textbook's claim by framing the brain, the most advanced known organ, as receiving a prestigious official award.
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FIGURE 1.17 The human brain. Although the brain looks like a heaping mound of mush, it is the most advanced biological organ in the known universe.

Overview

This meme opens with a textbook snippet labeled Figure 1.17 that states, "Although the brain looks like a heaping mound of mush, it is the most advanced biological organ in the known universe." Below the text is an edited photograph of Barack Obama during a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, where both Obama's face and the face of the person receiving the medal have been replaced with stock photos of a human brain. The humorous punchline visualizes the textbook's claim by framing the brain, the most advanced known organ, as receiving a prestigious official award.

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This is a remixed meme sourced from the X (formerly Twitter) account meme.jpg via RSS. It combines three pre-existing assets: the widely used Obama self-award reaction meme template, a stock photograph of a human brain, and a snippet from an educational science textbook. The image was edited using the Mematic mobile meme creation tool, as confirmed by the watermark in the bottom left corner of the image.

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