Showing posts with label names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label names. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Hey! Let's Vote On Your Best Suggestions On What To Name 'Planet Nine'

...here are the four of the best suggestions:
— Janus was suggested many times. Here's how TymmConner explained it: "As it is found at the end of the solar system, thus the beginning of the vast unknown cosmos, it should be named accordingly. The Roman Deity for endings and beginnings is Janus."
— Celo. BillGoodwin explains: "Latin meaning conceal, heaven, keep secret, be silent, cover, hide, keep back, veil, hush"
— Proserpina. AndreaBlankiship writes: "The planet name definitely has to remain Roman. You can't break up a set. To that end I suggest Proserpina. She is in the underworld and not seen for great lengths of time, near Pluto, master of the underworld." And Dean Lovett adds: "She was abducted by Pluto (god of the underworld). Her mother's search for her are subject of Roman art and literature."
— Black Star. User33297 writes: "In honor of David Bowie."
And here is where you vote. We'll be in touch with the winner so we can send them some NPR swag:
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Saturday, December 20, 2014

A Snail So Hardcore It's Named After A Punk Rocker


Shannon Johnson, a researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, found that when she talked to youngsters about sea snails, she communicated a little more effectively if she skipped the technical description and called them "punk-rock snails."

"Their entire shells are covered in spikes," Johnson explains. "And then the spikes are actually all covered in fuzzy white bacteria."
These punk rock snails live thousands of feet underwater, crowded around the mouths of chimneys of hydrothermal vents — the kind of place that might survive the apocalyptic "nuclear error" in the Clash album London Calling.
"They live in hot, acidic poison, basically, so they're pretty hardcore," she says.
Since Johnson had such success in calling the spiky, acid-loving mollusks punk-rock snails, she and her colleagues decided to name them Alviniconcha strummeri, after the late Joe Strummer, frontman for the Clash.
"Not only was a he a punk-rock icon — he's kind of one of the originators of the punk movement — but he also was kind of an environmentalist," she says. "He started a foundation that was planting trees all over the world. He's a neat guy."
Strummer is not the only big name with his own namesake animal. A wooly lemur from Madagascar is named after John Cleese — the Avahi cleesei. A frog in the Amazon that makes a shrill, bat-like call is named after Ozzy Osbourne.
The Ramones each have their own trilobite, and there's a parasitic wasp named after Shakira. The scientists who discovered the wasp say it causes the caterpillar it inhabits to wriggle and writhe, which reminds them of Shakira's energetic dancing.  npr

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Friday, May 10, 2013

Top 5 Names For Boys and Girls Of The Last 100 Years

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YearRank 1Rank 2Rank 3Rank 4Rank 5Rank 1Rank 2Rank 3Rank 4Rank 5
2012SophiaEmmaIsabellaOliviaAvaJacobMasonEthanNoahWilliam
2011SophiaIsabellaEmmaOliviaAvaJacobMasonWilliamJaydenNoah
2010IsabellaSophiaEmmaOliviaAvaJacobEthanMichaelJaydenWilliam
2009IsabellaEmmaOliviaSophiaAvaJacobEthanMichaelAlexanderWilliam
2008EmmaIsabellaEmilyOliviaAvaJacobMichaelEthanJoshuaDaniel
2007EmilyIsabellaEmmaAvaMadisonJacobMichaelEthanJoshuaDaniel
2006EmilyEmmaMadisonIsabellaAvaJacobMichaelJoshuaEthanMatthew
2005EmilyEmmaMadisonAbigailOliviaJacobMichaelJoshuaMatthewEthan
2004EmilyEmmaMadisonOliviaHannahJacobMichaelJoshuaMatthewEthan
2003EmilyEmmaMadisonHannahOliviaJacobMichaelJoshuaMatthewAndrew
2002EmilyMadisonHannahEmmaAlexisJacobMichaelJoshuaMatthewEthan
2001EmilyMadisonHannahAshleyAlexisJacobMichaelMatthewJoshuaChristopher
2000EmilyHannahMadisonAshleySarahJacobMichaelMatthewJoshuaChristopher
1999EmilyHannahAlexisSarahSamanthaJacobMichaelMatthewJoshuaNicholas
1998EmilyHannahSamanthaAshleySarahMichaelJacobMatthewJoshuaChristopher
1997EmilyJessicaAshleySarahHannahMichaelJacobMatthewChristopherJoshua
1996EmilyJessicaAshleySarahSamanthaMichaelMatthewJacobChristopherJoshua
1995JessicaAshleyEmilySamanthaSarahMichaelMatthewChristopherJacobJoshua
1994JessicaAshleyEmilySamanthaSarahMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaTyler
1993JessicaAshleySarahSamanthaEmilyMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaTyler
1992AshleyJessicaAmandaBrittanySarahMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaAndrew
1991AshleyJessicaBrittanyAmandaSamanthaMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaAndrew
1990JessicaAshleyBrittanyAmandaSamanthaMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaDaniel
1989JessicaAshleyBrittanyAmandaSarahMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaDavid
1988JessicaAshleyAmandaSarahJenniferMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaAndrew
1987JessicaAshleyAmandaJenniferSarahMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaDavid
1986JessicaAshleyAmandaJenniferSarahMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaDavid
1985JessicaAshleyJenniferAmandaSarahMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaDaniel
1984JenniferJessicaAshleyAmandaSarahMichaelChristopherMatthewJoshuaDavid
1983JenniferJessicaAmandaAshleySarahMichaelChristopherMatthewDavidJoshua
1982JenniferJessicaAmandaSarahMelissaMichaelChristopherMatthewJasonDavid
1981JenniferJessicaAmandaSarahMelissaMichaelChristopherMatthewJasonDavid
1980JenniferAmandaJessicaMelissaSarahMichaelChristopherJasonDavidJames
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