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This is a two-panel meme using the popular Soyjak vs. Chad format. The left panel depicts a smug, balding, glasses-wearing Soyjak character making the common pseudohistorical claim that Atlantis is a real place and modern archaeology is on the verge of discovering it. The right panel shows a Chad-style character styled as an ancient Greek, representing Plato and mainstream academic consensus, dismissively responding 'NO.', followed by a paragraph of explanatory text confirming that Atlantis is likely a myth or allegory, noting that it may have been inspired by the historical volcanic eruption of Thera that destroyed Minoan civilization on Crete around 1500 BCE.

Atlantis was an allegory

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This is a two-panel comparison meme designed to debunk the common popular misconception that people living in the medieval period believed the Earth was flat. The top panel displays a smug, condescending neckbeard Wojak character with crossed arms, paired with text quoting the common false claim: "Medieval people believed the Earth was flat", representing people who unknowingly spread this historical myth. The bottom panel shifts to an illustration of a medieval cathedral or university interior, featuring a serious, stoic Chad character styled as a medieval scholar, with accompanying text explaining that medieval universities actually taught Aristotle's widely accepted theory of a spherical Earth, contrasting the false myth with historical fact for humorous and educational effect.

They thought the earth was flat

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This is a humorous 4-panel meme followed by an educational illustration of prehistoric heteromorph ammonite species. The top-left panel shows two standard coiled ammonites with text reading 'Evolution can you give me longer shell'. The top-right panel shows a DNA double helix representing evolution, with text reading 'To improve swimming?'. The bottom-left panel shows a close-up of a normal ammonite agreeing with the text 'Yeeeees.'. The bottom-right panel shows a bizarre, irregularly twisted heteromorph ammonite next to the text 'Actually develops absurd shapes like a boss'. Below the 4-panel section, large bold text reads 'HETEROMORPH AMMONITE TIME', followed by labeled illustrations of 12 different heteromorph ammonite species, each with uniquely weird, non-standard shell shapes, including Pravitoceras, Scalarites, Eubostrychoceras, Anisoceras, Diplomoceras, Nostoceras, Nipponites, Hypoturrilites, Mariella, Audouliceras, Solenoceras, and Morewites. The joke relies on the subversion of expectations: instead of granting the ammonite's simple request for a longer shell to improve swimming, evolution produced excessively strange, impractical shell designs, playing on the popular 'like a boss' phrase to frame evolution's unexpected choice as confidently unhinged.

Evolution Creates Weird Heteromorph Ammonites Instead of Longer Shells Meme

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The meme consists of explanatory text at the top sharing a historical fact about 18th century Caribbean pirate queen Anne Bonny: she regularly dressed as a man to fight in battles, and would expose her breasts to her dying victims to inform them they had been defeated by a woman. Below the text is a vintage hand-colored historical illustration depicting this scene: Anne Bonny stands on a tropical sandy beach holding a dagger, her shirt partially open to expose her chest as she looks down at a bloodied, injured male victim lying on the sand. Discarded pirate weapons including a cutlass and pistol, plus hats, lie on the sand around the pair, palm trees are visible near the shoreline in the background, and two additional men in a small boat can be seen in the distant background near the water.

Pirate Queen Anne Bonny's Famous Victim Reveal Tactic

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This image is a screenshot of two consecutive posts from X (formerly Twitter). The first post by user Tylor Saunders claims that giving $600 to a poor person will result in the money being gone in a week, while giving the same $600 to a rich person will multiply 10 times in a few years or less. The second post is a reply from user Todd, who corrects this flawed, classist take: he points out that poor people have no choice but to spend $600 immediately on basic needs to survive, while rich people already have all their needs fully met so they have the luxury of saving or investing the extra money. Todd ends his reply with frustration, asking if people are really that ignorant to miss that obvious context. The meme calls out common harmful misconceptions that blame poor people for their financial situation instead of addressing systemic wealth inequality.

Think Tylor Think: Correcting the Classist Take on Poor vs Rich People Spending $600

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This is an infographic with a solid black background, published as part of Science Alert's 'This Week In Science' series. It lists 6 recent peer-reviewed scientific findings, each paired with a small illustrative thumbnail: 1) A slow-release joint injection that repairs cartilage to relieve osteoarthritis in weeks, per new animal study (thumbnail of an inflamed knee joint). 2) Sperm whale communication follows structured rules highly similar to human speech, per new analysis (thumbnail of a sperm whale). 3) A Norwegian man is in long-term HIV remission after receiving a stem cell transplant from his brother who carries a rare beneficial genetic mutation (thumbnail of an HIV virus particle). 4) A massive magma reservoir with volume comparable to the Yellowstone supervolcano was discovered under Tuscany, Italy (thumbnail of cracked, glowing magma). 5) Higher midlife vitamin D levels are linked to lower levels of tau protein tangles (a key Alzheimer's disease hallmark) in the brain later in life (thumbnail of a brain neuron). 6) Astronomers discovered the purest known ancient star, made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, located within the Milky Way galaxy (thumbnail of the ancient star in space). The bottom of the graphic displays the Science Alert logo and a link to sciencealert.com for more information.

This Week In Science Roundup from Science Alert

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This is a meme screenshot of a Twitter/X conversation about asteroid 16 Psyche's gold reserves. The first tweet from user Todd claims the asteroid holds $700 quintillion worth of gold, enough to make every person on Earth a billionaire. Below the tweet is an image of asteroid 16 Psyche, followed by a reply tweet from user Rony Shelton that corrects the fundamental economic misunderstanding: flooding the global market with this enormous amount of gold would completely devalue gold, leaving everyone still poor, and he sarcastically tells the original poster to take an economics class. The meme highlights how basic common economics defeats common viral utopian-style claims about space resources.

Solid Logic Beats Utopian Fever

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This image displays a satellite map covering Europe, North Africa, and Western to Southern Asia, marking all locations where Roman coins have been archaeologically found. Large orange shaded areas cover the core territories of the Roman Empire around the Mediterranean, including Western Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, while scattered orange dots show coin finds extending all the way east into India, illustrating the far reach of ancient Roman trade and influence.

Map of Where Roman Coins Have Been Found

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This is a wholesome animal fact post explaining that baby elephants cannot use their trunks to drink water until they reach 9 months old. The photograph shows an adult elephant standing at the edge of a waterhole, while the baby elephant submerges its entire head into the water to drink, demonstrating this unique young elephant behavior.

How Baby Elephants Drink Water

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This meme is a screenshot of a page from *Himalaya's Mathematics B.Sc. (Sem VI)* textbook, focused on Einstein's special relativity time dilation concept. The highlighted section presents a humorous, hypothetical scenario: a 40-year-old scientist falls in love with his 16-year-old lab assistant, but their large age gap makes marriage socially unacceptable. To fix this, he uses time dilation by traveling at 0.999c (99.9% the speed of light) in a rocket for 1 year (from his frame of reference). Due to time dilation, 22.7 years pass on Earth for his assistant. When he returns, he is 41 years old, and she is ~38.7, making their age gap small enough to marry. The scenario uses the official time dilation formula to calculate the time difference, framing a silly, ethically questionable workaround as a 'practical' application of relativity. The surrounding textbook text covers the twin paradox and other relativity problems, making this a repurposed educational meme for humor.

Scientist Uses Relativity Time Dilation to Marry Younger Assistant (Feynman-style Meme)

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This image is an educational visual meme illustrating the dangers of social websites, using a pun on the word 'web'. It shows an angry-looking cartoon spider typing on a laptop; the laptop screen displays the text: 'I am 15 years old, blond, and interested in the web.' Below the illustration, the text reads '↑ Dangers of social websites'. The joke relies on the double meaning of 'web': the spider's natural web, and the internet (World Wide Web). The spider is pretending to be a young person online, referencing catfishing/online predators, where someone misrepresents their identity to interact with others, especially targeting vulnerable minors. The image appears to be a page from an educational book or pamphlet about internet safety, using a humorous visual pun to make the lesson memorable.

Spider 'Web' Social Media Danger Pun

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