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Victor Hugo and Science

December 25, 2018December 30, 2018 scishenan Biology, Physics
Victor Hugo and Science

Victor Hugo is best known for his novels Les MIserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Though it’s probably more accurate to say that he is best known for going off on extremely long tangents in said novels. Such as the infamous twenty six pages about the Paris sewer system. Though really, the eighteen chapters […]

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Literary Species Names: Scientists Should Read

October 28, 2017October 28, 2017 scishenan Biology
Caesar, Cthulu, Literary Species Names

There are a lot of living things on the planet. This is probably pretty obvious, but the important part here is that it means they have to name a lot of species. I’ve discussed some of the science fiction and fantasy references in species names before. And of course, I’ve advocated for a strong liberal […]

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