{"id":1113,"date":"2012-04-13T11:41:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T23:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/04\/scientists_do_have_a_sense_of\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T11:41:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T23:41:31","slug":"scientists-do-have-a-sense-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/04\/scientists-do-have-a-sense-of\/","title":{"rendered":"scientists *do* have a sense of humour :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists, like everyone else, have a sense of humour. (It&#8217;s just that sometimes their &#8216;in-jokes&#8217; may come across as somewhat incomprehensible.) And taxonomy seems to offer fertile ground to indulge that wit. What else can you think, when there&#8217;s a tiny tiny snail with the genus name <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinespecies.org\/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&amp;id=473137\">Ittibittium<\/a><\/i>; a fly called <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalspecies.org\/ntaxa\/445472\">Pieza kake<\/a><\/i> (say it out loud); and a trilobite with the binomial name <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Han_solo_(trilobite)\"><i>Han solo<\/i><\/a>&nbsp;(yes, seriously!). And yes, there&#8217;s more &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/babymantis\/the-best-taxonomy-humor-1opu\">you&#8217;ll find a more extensive list here<\/a> (thanks to Mark Willoughby for sending me the link). In fact, such punny names (sorry, couldn&#8217;t resist it!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curioustaxonomy.net\/puns\/puns.html\">turn out to be surprisingly common<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just the biologists; chemists seem to have enjoyed coming up with funny names for new chemical compounds. Moronic acid, anyone? You&#8217;ll find a lengthy list at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chm.bris.ac.uk\/sillymolecules\/sillymols.htm\">Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names<\/a> &#8211; but you may wish to exercise a little discretion as to whether you wish to call some of the names out loud \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists, like everyone else, have a sense of humour. (It&#8217;s just that sometimes their &#8216;in-jokes&#8217; may come across as somewhat incomprehensible.) And taxonomy seems to offer fertile ground to indulge that wit. 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