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xkcd #2986: Every Scientific Field (xkcd.com)

submitted 2 days ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.

https://explainxkcd.com/2986

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[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (10 children)

this is especially true in math. everybody’s chilling when it’s just calculus and linear algebra. but then it becomes about manifolds, orbifolds, presheaves, adjoints, limits, modules, homology, etc.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Math quiz: Find the 2 words in the list that are made up.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

i wish some of them were made up

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Technically, all of them are made up.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

there is much wisdom in those words

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