advanced-memorization-methods
Original: advanced-memorization-methods on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Top caption banner: TEACHING PRO TIP: THE HUMAN MIND MORE READILY REMEMBERS HORRIFYING IMAGES
Panel 1:
Teacher (a smiling man with brown hair, wearing a button-up shirt and red tie, holding a piece of chalk and standing at a green chalkboard): "Did you know that it takes less energy to send a sack of dead koalas from the moons of Mars to Earth than from Earth's moon to Earth? This is due to the moon's 'gravity well,' which is similar to a real well, like the kind a koala might get trapped in until it starves."
(The chalkboard shows a curved line dipping into wells beneath small circles representing celestial bodies — a gravity-well diagram.)
Votey:
Close-up of the teacher's face, still smiling, with a speech bubble: "OR DROWNS!"
Panel 1:
Teacher (a smiling man with brown hair, wearing a button-up shirt and red tie, holding a piece of chalk and standing at a green chalkboard): "Did you know that it takes less energy to send a sack of dead koalas from the moons of Mars to Earth than from Earth's moon to Earth? This is due to the moon's 'gravity well,' which is similar to a real well, like the kind a koala might get trapped in until it starves."
(The chalkboard shows a curved line dipping into wells beneath small circles representing celestial bodies — a gravity-well diagram.)
Votey:
Close-up of the teacher's face, still smiling, with a speech bubble: "OR DROWNS!"
Alt text
An SMBC comic. A yellow banner across the top reads: 'TEACHING PRO TIP: THE HUMAN MIND MORE READILY REMEMBERS HORRIFYING IMAGES.' In the single panel, a cheerful teacher with brown hair, a button-up shirt and red tie holds chalk before a green chalkboard that displays a gravity-well diagram (a curved line dipping into wells beneath circles representing celestial bodies). Two students are seen from behind. He says: 'Did you know that it takes less energy to send a sack of dead koalas from the moons of Mars to Earth than from Earth's moon to Earth? This is due to the moon's gravity well, which is similar to a real well, like the kind a koala might get trapped in until it starves.' The joke: he illustrates physics with deliberately gruesome koala imagery so students remember it. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the still-smiling teacher's face as he cheerfully adds, 'OR DROWNS!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.