Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Leet seismograph, named after L. Don Leet

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The Leet seismograph is named after its developer, the geoscientist Dr. L. Don Leet , who has been chairman of the Division of Geological S...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Is your surname on the map of the United States?

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This year's February issue of National Geographic features a map of the United States with surnames covering territory from Hawaii to Ma...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Acronym in chemistry and business: BASF for Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik

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BASF is a German-language acronym for Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik , a chemical company with its headquarters in Ludwigshafen, Germany. ...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

The bigram “ionic liquid” and related terms in the Ngram Viewer

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The Google Books Ngram Viewer provides interesting options to analyze the frequency of use of words and phrases (n-grams) over time—relativ...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Culturomics, a portmanteau blending the words “culture” and “genomics”

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The noun culturomics is a portmanteau derived from the words culture and genomics . While in genomics the sequences of DNA base pairs are ...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Gaia hypothesis named after the Greek goddess of Earth

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The Gaia hypothesis was named by the British scientist James Lovelock after the Greek goddess of Earth. Lovelock followed a suggestion of ...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Seamounts, also named guyots after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot

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Arnold Henry Guyot (1807-1884) was a Swiss-American scientist [1,2]. He studied in Switzerland and Germany. Influenced by glaciologist Lou...