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Nominative Determinism
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Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names. The term was first used in the magazine New Scientist in 1994, after the magazine's humorous "Feedback" column noted several studies carried out by researchers with remarkably fitting surnames. These included a book on polar explorations by Daniel Snowman and an article on urology by researchers named Splatt and Weedon. These and other examples led to light-hearted speculation that some sort of psychological effect was at work.
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Not normally on Faceb**k but happened to see this.
BBC News just interviewed a guy in a bed called Amin Abed. Could this week get any better 🤣
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“There are still so many things we don’t know about [a milky sea] beyond that it must be caused by bacteria,” says Steven Haddock, a marine biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, Calif., who collaborates with Hudson on milky seas research. “What are the substrates that fuel the growth of these massive numbers of bacteria, and what are the environmental factors that keep them from getting diluted into the water column?”
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bioluminescent-milky-seas-predicted
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About Me
My name is Dr Neil Buttery and I have been writing on the history of British food for over ten years and through the process of writing and cooking I have become a professional chef specialising in cooking food from our past. https://britishfoodhistory.com/about/
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He also hosts the "Practical Engineering" channel on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@practicalengineeringchannel
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18602528
It's not just people, cities can have prophetic names too
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- Source article
- His Wikipedia page if you don't want to read an old Telegraph article
In July 2010, Reckless apologised for missing a vote on the budget because he was drunk. He said that he "did not feel it was appropriate to take part in the vote because of the amount he had drunk".
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