(Phys.org) —Parents these days name their babies Jacob or Isabella instead of John or Mary for similar reasons that people decades ago bought cars with tailfins instead of Edsels—because they are fashionable, according ...
Social Sciences
Jul 4, 2013
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Our names are a critical part of our identity. They are a personal and social anchor tying us to our families, our culture, our history and place in the world.
Social Sciences
Oct 6, 2021
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Ever since Carl Linnaeus founded the system for naming biological organisms in the 18th century —called binomial nomenclature, for the two Latin words used to describe species (e.g., Homo sapiens)—there have been causes ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2013
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For the first time, in response to the public's increased interest in being part of discoveries in astronomy, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is organizing a worldwide contest to give popular names to selected ...
Astronomy
Jul 10, 2014
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Jose Bautista has a new namesake buzzing around.
Ecology
Nov 23, 2018
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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet -- but it might confound scientists interested in understanding the chemical components of its fragrance or discovering where its ancestors grew in the wild.
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2012
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Google+ apologized Tuesday and stopped requiring people to use their real names while mingling in the online social network, as it looks to gain ground on market leader Facebook.
Internet
Jul 16, 2014
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Rising individualism in the United States over the last 150 years is mainly associated with a societal shift toward more white-collar occupations, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of ...
Social Sciences
Feb 5, 2015
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(AP) -- The use of non-Latin characters in Internet addresses is a key step to opening up the Web and making it more "personalized" for billions of users, the head of the nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses said ...
Internet
May 24, 2010
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(AP) -- The organization in charge of Internet domain names has selected a Chinese scholar as vice president for Asia.
Internet
Dec 8, 2011
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