Latintos

Latintos stands for "language transformations in texts and open sources." The LATINTOS BLOG highlights different spellings and different meanings of words, phrases and abbreviations as well as their origin. Latintos compares words in different contexts and different languages including scientific and formal languages. Further, name construction is analyzed and applications of systematic names and nomenclature systems are monitored.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

An anagram for LOVE: the word VOLE

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Voles are small, mouse-size mammals closely related to other rodents such as lemmings. Voles are famously monogamous [1]. The prairie vole ...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Scirus Exitus

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Scirus ( scirus.com ) is (was) a search engine serving the scientific community. Elsevier's subscription-free portal “ Scirus for sci...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Genoa in Nevada supposedly named after Genoa in Italy

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Genoa seen from trail to Genoa Waterfall Genoa was founded in 1851 by Mormon pioneers as a Utah Territory settlement (Nevada came int...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

The science of appearance: phenology

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Phenology is the scientific study of periodic biological phenomena , such as leafing , flowering , fruiting , breeding , migration and mu...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Lassen Volcanic's Loomis Museum named for Mae Loomis, daughter of photographer Benjamin Franklin Loomis

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The historic Loomis Museum is located at the northwest entrance of the Lassen Volcanic National Park . It is also named Loomis Visitor Cen...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Lassen Volcanic's Kings Creek and its waterfalls named for the King family of Shasta County

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The Kings Creek cascades and waterfalls belong, like the geothermal Bumpass Hell area and the  Lassen Peak Summit , to the most popular...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Northern California's Lassen Peak named for Peter Lassen, a Danish blacksmith and pioneer

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Peter Lassen (1800-1859), a Danish blacksmith , came to California in 1840 just before before the onset of the gold rush [1-3]. Then, Ca...
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