Biological Terms or Theories that Sound Made Up - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Internet Tendency

Daily humor almost every day since 1998.

Daily humor almost every day since 1998.

Job Postings

Have a background in journalism? We’re looking for part-time help on an upcoming project. Students are encouraged to apply. Click for details.

1. Schwann cells

2. Nodes of Ranvier

3. Neurilemma

4. Malpighian layer

5. Pseudopodia

6. Pacinian corpuscle

7. Organs of Ruffini

8. Bulbs of Krause

9. The Sneaky F*cker Theory

10. Golgi apparatus

Please help support our writers and keep our site ad-free by becoming a patron.

Become a patron

Subscribe to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s Substack

Suggested Reads

January 16, 2004

The Future of the Space Program

by Jonathan Messinger
May 13, 2002

Genomes Other than Homo Sapiens Sequenced by the Institute for Genomic Research, in Rockville, Maryland

by Jennifer Frazier
July 18, 2000

Periodic Table of the Elementary School

by Alysia Gray Painter
July 11, 2024

The Independent Voter: An Ethnographic Study

by K.E. Flann

Trending 🔥

December 4, 2024

Your 2024 Therapy Wrapped

by Sasha Lubomirsky, Topher Lin, and Chan Lin
December 3, 2024

A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester

by B. McNulty
December 6, 2024

We Need to Save the Men

by Ginny Hogan
December 10, 2024

A Typical First Date with a Guy in Boston, Chicago, or New York

by Jus Kaplan, Jonah Nink, and Jack Stebbins

Recently

December 20, 2024

Great Philosophers on Santa’s Naughty and Nice Lists

by Amanda Lehr
December 20, 2024

An Art Nouveau Calendar for a Terrible Fucking Year

by Ali Fitzgerald
December 19, 2024

An Open Letter to Sarah from Love Actually, to Be Delivered In the Two Seconds Before She Answers Her Phone for the Second Time While Karl Is Tenderly Dry Humping Her

by Una LaMarche
December 19, 2024

A Producer Attempts to Pitch The Nutcracker

by Jeff Bender