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
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mudDNA — new jargon for old junk
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 […]
Zib/Zeb/Dick, unnamable diplomat
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 […]