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But we, who have named ourselves after our brains, never think about the consequences.
There are certainly no guarantees when it comes to SETI, but something called the Drake equation, named after Frank Drake, can help us organize our thinking about what might be required for successful detection.
A physicist named Philip Morrison summarizes by saying that SETI is the archaeology of the future.
There was a man near the window, a cameraman named Taras Protsyuk, lying face-down.
Since Lorenzo Romano - uh, never mind - Avogadro was the first one to come up with this idea, scientists named the number 6.02 times 10 to the 23rd after him.
And I did, though, have a really great intern, a woman named Michaela Kobsa-Mark.
With this Trayvon Martin case, this is a guy, a kid, who was 17 years old and he bought soda and a candy at a store, and on his way home he was tracked by a neighborhood watchman named George Zimmerman who ended up shooting and killing him.
Attilla the Hun, destroyer of civilizations, who named himself the Scourge of God, took one look at them and turned around.
We're looking in at a 17-year-old named Lucius Popidius Secundus.
A few years after this prediction, a French guy named Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovered a new element in ore samples and named it gallium after Gaul, the historical name for France.
This element filled an empty spot in the perodic table at number 101, and was officially named Mendelevium in 1963.
There have been well over 800 Nobel Prize winners, but only 15 scientists have an element named after them.
In the 1890's, a Russian physiologist named Ivan Pavlov did some really famous experiments on dogs.
To understand how traits pass from one living being to its descendants, we need to go back in time to the 19th century and a man named Gregor Mendel.
She has an older brother who is fourteen, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, named after her dad.
But in 1543, a guy named Copernicus proposed a different model.
Around the time Leonardo sketched the Vitruvian Man, however, a Neoplatonist named Pico Della Mirandola had a different idea.
In the Western music tradition, pitches are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.
When we were naming the site in Cancun, we named it a museum for a very important and simple reason: museums are places of preservation, of conservation and of education.
To understand the pace of our own government thinking on this, I like to turn to something aptly named the Worldwide Threat Assessment, where every year the Director of National Intelligence in the US looks at the global threat landscape, and he says, "These are the threats, these are the details, and this is how we rank them."
Its history began in early 17th century Kyoto, where a shrine maiden named Izumo no Okuni would use the city's dry Kamo Riverbed as a stage to perform unusual dances for passerby, who found her daring parodies of Buddhist prayers both entertaining and mesmerizing.
We call the accelerating end state of the universe a de Sitter phase, named after the Dutch mathematician Willem de Sitter.
It's named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, because of its benign, ethereal appearance in the sky.
Our story is about a girl named Iris.
But one day, she meets a girl named Onion.
In the 1900s, a clever chap named Albert Einstein worked out how to see things properly, from Tom's point of view, while still getting the speed of light right.
When Scoville informed another expert, Wilder Penfield, of the results, he sent a Ph.D student named Brenda Milner to study H.M. at his parents' home, where he now spent his days doing odd chores, and watching classic movies for the first time, over and over.
Finally, in 1947, design improvements, such as a movable horizontal stabilizer, the all-moving tail, allowed an American military pilot named Chuck Yeager to fly the Bell X-1 aircraft at 1127 km/h, becoming the first person to break the sound barrier and travel faster than the speed of sound.
Hieron commissioned a sailing vessel 50 times bigger than a standard ancient warship, named the Syracusia after his city.
A doctor named Donald Unger heard this, too.
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