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  • IMongoose@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz#notaseagull
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    13 days ago

    Birds actually have scientific common names and it’s completely acceptable to refer to them with those names. They even have standardized bird abbreviations using those names, like Red-tailed Hawk is RTHA. They of course use the latin names too, and those have their own abbreviations (Buteo jamaicensis is BUTJAM) but the common names are handier.














  • IMongoose@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzDonors
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    1 month ago

    There was a librarian who saved his whole life and when he passed donated I think 1 million dollars to his old university. That university then spent the money on a new score board for the football field. I bet if he saw that he would have wished he put some stipulations on his donation.