Beyoncé is a fly … but why?
Late last week CSIRO announced that a new species of horse fly had been named after pop diva Beyoncé’s bottom. The story generated a real buzz across traditional and social media both in Australia and…
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Jay-Z, Beyoncé, baby Blue Ivy and the art of naming
American rock band Modest Mouse’s song Black Cadillacs (2004) has a particularly wonderful opening:
And it’s true we named our children /
After towns that we’ve never been to
Inside a song filled with…
Diamond planet found (if you like it then you should have put a ring on it)
A planet has been found in our Milky Way galaxy that may be made entirely of diamond.
As reported in Science today, an international astronomy team led by Swinburne University’s Matthew Bailes, has discovered…