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It's white and fluffy, and I named it "mucor nidicola," meaning in Latin that it lives in the nest of another.
Perhaps my favorite example comes from colleagues who are studying a pond scum microorganism, which is tragically named after the cow dung it was first found in.
In the 1930s, a man named Maksymilian Faktorowicz recognized the importance of symmetry for beauty when he designed the beauty micrometer.
With this device, he could measure minor asymmetric flaws which he could then make up for with products he sold from his company, named brilliantly after himself, Max Factor, which, as you know, is one of the world's most famous brands for "make up."
A survey of recent Best Picture nominations found that only 12 percent of speaking or named characters were age 60 and up, and many of them were portrayed as impaired.
This crazy Canadian named Powel Crosley commercialized this thing called the IcyBall, in 1928.
The man in that photo is named David Kirby and it was taken in 1990 as he was dying from AIDS-related illness, and it was subsequently published in "Life Magazine."
I met a young man named Emeka, who'd been paralyzed playing football.
It was a previously undreamed-of enzyme that could replenish, make longer, telomeres, and we named it telomerase.
Now, I've been minutely scrutinizing little teeny tiny telomeres very happily for many years, when into my lab walks a psychologist named Elissa Epel.
Informal settlements are incorrectly named as the problem.
If I feel like things are starting to spiral, I make an appointment to see my therapist, a dynamic black woman named Dawn Armstrong, who has a great sense of humor and a familiarity that I find comforting.
And I walked in and was assigned a three-year-old named Maria.
So the first thing I had to do was teach her how to use the mouse, and when I opened up the screen, she moved it across the screen, and she stopped on a character named X the Owl.
As it turned out, the circle was the vision of a man named Patrick Nolan, who was also serving life and who had grown sick and tired of being sick and tired of watching us kill one another over skin color, rag color, being from Northern or Southern California, or just plain breathing in the wrong direction on a windy day.
I'm married to a tremendous woman named Holly, and together, we are raising two sons who I encourage to experience emotions in a safe way.
Upon discovering this strange transformation, the farmers drained the remaining liquid – later named whey – and found the yellowish globs could be eaten fresh as a soft, spreadable meal.
And it has been named Okapi Faunal Reserve because of this beautiful creature.
He told them that their rivals, a pair of brothers named Brokk and Eitri, had claimed that they were the best craftsmen in the world and were determined to prove it in a competition.
For good reason, the refrigeration industry wanted a safe alternative, and they found that in 1928, when a scientist named Thomas Midgley synthesized the first commercially viable CFCs.
And of course, you are all familiar with the computer language named for him.
Take the story “The Life You Save May be Your Own,” where the one-handed drifter Tom Shiftlet wanders into the lives of an old woman named Lucynell Crater and her deaf and mute daughter.
I made these pictures called "Pictures of Thread," and I named them after the amount of yards that I used to represent each picture.
For example, if we were building an algorithm based on top performing CEOs and use the S&P 500 as a training set, you would actually find that you're more likely to hire a white man named John than any woman.
But in the twentieth century, a Japanese folder named Yoshizawa came along, and he created tens of thousands of new designs.
This sculpture is by an artist named Sophia Wallace as part of her "Cliteracy" project.
They named her Annie, and they began tracking her movements.
In 2012, a young black male named Trayvon Martin was murdered, and it changed my life and millions of others'.
This is from some guy named Ted.
The subject of this inquiry was a writer named James Baldwin.
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