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Entire Genus of Ferns Named After Lady Gaga!

1/25/2013

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First it was Madonna and Jimmy Buffet writing picture books.  OK, I get it.  They have kids.  They were  kids once.  They’re creative types.  Not to mention that they have big, famous names that can sell a lot of books.  I forgive them.

But now a music star has moved into my science space, too!  The new Gaga fern genus, named after Lady Gaga, contains almost twenty little monster species, one actually named Gaga monstraparva.  Another takes her real name -- Gaga germanotta.  (Who knew Lady Gaga wasn't her real name?  Whoa!)

Must the superstars rise to the top in every field? Can’t they leave something for us little guys?  I can still dream, I suppose.  Perhaps someday there will be a fungus christened Daugust baertleinia.  But I’m sure I’ll have to dig out of the swamp myself!

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    I made a career of writing software by day while scribbling stories by night, a combo made even odder by the fact that I started my adult life as a marine biologist/geneticist. 

    I got my Ph.D. ever so long ago, but I still love science, especially the biological variety. Now I write SciFi and Fantasy that's full of it.  Science, I mean.


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