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Tag: nomenclature

The Ho Ho Classification and Nomenclature Committee Report

March 21, 2015 Marc Abrahams

Copies of this report on Ho Ho Classification and Nomenclature are now hard to come by: “The Ho Ho Classification and Nomenclature Committee Report,” Johan Kamminga, Maxine Kleindienst, Ruthann Knudson, and Robert Lawrence,  Lithic Use-wear Analysis, 1979, pp. 133-35. BONUS (unrelated): Huh

Research Newsclassification, Ho Ho, nomenclature

mudDNA — new jargon for old junk

February 24, 2014 Marc Abrahams

A reporter asked me if there’s a single good name for all the kinds of DNA that are still not well understood — the grab bag of stuff that some people describe as  “junk DNA”. Here’s what I suggested. Maybe it’s useful. Maybe it’s not. Name: “murkily understood DNA” Abbreviation:  mudDNA Pronunciation: “mud DNA” or […]

Arts and ScienceDNA mudDNA, junk DNA, muddy, nomenclature

Zib/Zeb/Dick, unnamable diplomat

February 5, 2010 Marc Abrahams

The Arab Times and other media report on a difficulty of language involving a diplomat named Akbar Zib (or, in some spellings, Akber Zeb). Mr. Zib (or Zeb) appears in the photo below, in the middle, clasping his hands over his groin. Here’s a report from the Salem News: Saudi’s Reject Pakistani Diplomat Whose Name […]

Arts and Sciencedick, name, nomenclature
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