Y'a des Américains qui ont vu cet arbre et se sont dit : Tiens, et si on l'appelait ciguë ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuga
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Y'a des Américains qui ont vu cet arbre et se sont dit : Tiens, et si on l'appelait ciguë ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuga
#WhatsInAName
"La Grande Aunée est parfois appelée aromate germanique, panacée de Chiron, lionne ou œil-de-cheval."
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Aun%C3%A9e
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #434: Alan Smithee.
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#movies #film #alansmithee #filmdirectors #hollywood #moviedirectors #pseudonym #whatsinaname #boxoffice #webcomic #comics #funfacts #facts #moviefacts #trivia #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #432: Hippocampus.
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#nomenclature #whatsinaname #hippocampus #brain #anatomy #taxonomy #seahorse #names #greekmythology #webcomic #comics #didyouknow #funfact #strangebuttrue #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Gros coup de cœur pour la classification des campagnols où, à l'heure actuelle, le seul avec terrestre dans son nom est... aquatique !
http://www.picardie-nature.org/etude-de-la-faune-sauvage/les-groupes-de-faune-etudies/les-15-reseaux-naturalistes-de/mammiferes-terrestres/enquetes/article/les-campagnols-du-genre-arvicola
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #416: Micropachycephalosaurus.
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#dinosaurs #science #biology #animals #nomenclature #whatsinaname #strangebuttrue #wtf #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Le casse-tête des félins dans les sources anciennes.
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https://www.academia.edu/72478409/A_Conundrum_of_Cats_Pards_and_their_Relatives_in_Byzantium
@alda @streetartutopia
Like the "Brussels South" airport that is actually in Gosselies near Charleroi, ~50km from Brussels.
But yeah, it is south of Brussels.
#CloseEnough
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Dans son atlas céleste de 1627 Coelum Stellatum Christianum, l'astronome Julius Schiller propose de renommer les corps célestes avec des noms chrétiens.
Entre autres, le Soleil y est rebaptisé Jésus Christ, la Lune Marie et Pluton Adam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelum_Stellatum_Christianum
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #313: Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.
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#macaulayculkin #whatsinaname #boatymcboatface #internetpolls #internetissrsbsns #internet #strangebuttrue #actors #nomenclature #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #butwhytho #wtf #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The other side of the argument from Pr. Mark Nesbitt (Kew Gardens):
"People-inspired names remain valuable"
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371704603_People-inspired_names_remain_valuable
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02108-7
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"Towards redressing inaccurate, offensive and inappropriate common bird names"
(2021)
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ibi.12984
"Last week the International Botanical Congress (IBC) voted to replace words such as caffra or cafra, which appear in over 300 plants, fungi and algae names, with the words afra, afrorum, and afrum to denote their African origins."
https://www.linnean.org/news/2024/07/23/international-botanists-vote-to-change-offensive-plant-name
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Un mouvement s'est formé chez les naturalistes contre l'usage d'éponymes pour nommer les espèces biologiques :
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-some-scientists-want-to-stop-naming-organisms-after-people-180982249/
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Sur le même sujet : le cas Audubon :
https://nycbirdalliance.org/audubon-name/audubon-name
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Comment nous nommons la nature :
Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider, How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, ad Even a Few Scoundrels,
de Stephen B. Heard.
https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/charles-darwins-barnacle/ #toread #histnat
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What is Banksy's real name? We know his first name is Robbie, thanks to a recording of him correcting Robert to Robbie. But is his last name Del Naja or Hewlett or Buchanan. I'd go with Del Naja, myself. What's your guess?
#banksy #art #graffiti #WhatsInAName
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/09/legal-row-banksy-reveal-real-name-art-images-authenticity
When I'm abroad, I sometimes have trouble explaining how my name is pronounced. I usually say "Anna, as in Frozen".
Yesterday, I introduced myself like that to a lovely woman, who responded with "Oh! I'm a Disney princess, too! I'm Jasmine!" and I probably have never been happier to meet someone new
Everyone would come down a notch or two if only we were calling all this “advanced automation,” or even “smart automation;” anything but the utterly misleading “artificial intelligence.”
#AI #whatsinaname #moralpanic #automation #OriginalSin