Scientists are adorable
by digby
I think this is sort of sweet:
“Honestly, it’s difficult for me to envision a higher honor,” Jason Bond, an Auburn University professor, told the Loop. “It’s permanent. In science, there are few things that we do as scientists that has the permanency that taxonomy does.”
Bond, a spider expert at the university’s Department of Biological Sciences and its Museum of Natural History, discovered several new species of trapdoor spiders in late 2012, and named one of his favorites, “Aptostichus barackobamai” after the president. It had unique characteristics, Bond said, like Obama.
They’ve also named a fungus, a fish and a fossil after him. But nothing beats this:
Wait, I thought all liberals were parasites who can reproduce without a male. What’s so special about this one?
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