Linnaeus would be proud

[mrissa]

Ista discovered two new-to-her species on our walk this afternoon.

Garter snake and emo-kid.

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[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

So... which one scared her most?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

She is mighty! She is fierce! She is mildly interested in both but afraid of neither!

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

I should have known that. Ask Ista to forgive the silly monkey. *g*

[fiddledragon]

Heee...when I was at Imation, I had the opportunity to name a Notes server :) We named ours after philosophers and scientists :) I named mine Linnaeus...and enjoyed the confused looks of many. *grin*...because I like to go for the ones that aren't exactly well known like, oh, say...Galileo :)

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

Linneaus is not well known? The Linnean System? Huh. I learn something new every day. For obscure scientists, I would have gone with Rosalind Franklin -- you either need to be an ubergeek or have seen the movie (Juliet Stevenson was inspired casting).

[fiddledragon]

See *I* thought it was obvious...but apparently given the looks I got, it wasn't exactly obvious.

On the other hand, my boss very much wholeheartedly approved. :) Of course, he was also a fellow MPR Morning Show listener...more to be precise, he's the one who pointed me at The Morning Show to begin with (very cool, very eclectic, anything from well...any genre of music is fair game on said show...along with interesting conversation in between.

[fiddledragon]

Of course, he was pretty well known to me in *any* case given that I'd started off my academic career in biology and spent a fair number work study hours in a museum *chuckle*.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

I remember him from 9th grade biology, thirty-mumble years ago. I should have learned by now that science ignorance is ubiquitous and should not distress me (well, any more than any other species -- pun intended -- form of ignorance distresses me), but clearly I haven't.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ubergeek? For Rosalind Franklin, really? Because she seems awfully obvious to me. I would barely even have classified Lise Meitner as obscure.

Maybe this is one of the times where going to school after they started making some effort to acknowledge that this species has more than one sex has made some difference.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness, I've been acknowledging that for 30 years!

Sorry, I'm sure that's not what you meant.

Yeah, Lise Meitner is good, too. No one knows who she is, but to be fair, no one knows who Otto Hahn is, either. It's not a gender-science-ignorance thing; it's a science-ignorance thing.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I know more people who don't know Maurice Wilkins than who don't know Rosalind Franklin. And he *did* get the Nobel for DNA structure along with Watson and Crick.

[tacithydra.livejournal.com]

Aw! Both species are so cute and tiny!