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Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World - NYTimes.com
"The Ilongots, for example, a people of the Philippines, name gorgeous wild orchids after human body parts. There bloom the thighs, there fingernails, yonder elbows and thumbs"
nytimes  science  biology  language 
august 2009 by rebekahheacock
gladwell dot com - the ketchup conundrum
"Moskowitz is a man of uncommon exuberance and persuasiveness: if he had been your freshman statistics professor, you would today be a statistician."
food  history  science  marketing 
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
Popular Science: Can This Fruit Be Saved?
"The banana as we know it is on a crash course toward extinction." A friend told me about this four years ago, and I refused to believe him. Oops.
fruit  popularscience  science 
march 2008 by rebekahheacock

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