Friday, 27 November 2009

5-syllable trees

A list of 5-syllable trees, created using the online rhyming dictionary Rhymezone

Anchovy pear tree
Australian grass tree
Avocado tree
Bitter orange tree
Chinese lacquer tree
Chinese scholar tree
Common coral tree
Common spindle tree
Coniferous tree
Custard apple tree
English walnut tree
Eucalyptus tree
Golden shower tree
Orchard apple tree
Para rubber tree
Pencil cedar tree
Pistachio tree
Sour cherry tree
Spanish cedar tree
Temple orange tree
White cinnamon tree

Monday, 26 October 2009

Upside-down scholarship

A list of upside-down scholarship, found via Google Scholar

1. Upside-down ideas vindicated (BLM Hogan - 1995)

2. The baobab: Africa's upside-down tree (GE Wickens - Kew Bulletin, 1982)

3. Motor patterns for horizontal and upside down walking and vertical climbing in the locust (C Duch, HJ Pfluger - Journal of Experimental Biology, 1995)

4. Upside down: The paradox of servant leadership (S Rinehart - 1998 - NavPress Publishing Group)

5. Upside-down pendulums (DJ Acheson, T Mullin - 1993)

6. Looking at upside-down faces (RK Yin - Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1969)

7. Why swim upside down?: A comparative study of two mochokid catfishes (LJ Chapman, L Kaufman, CA Chapman - Copeia, 1994)

8. Whatever happened to the Kuznets curve? Is it really upside down? (G Glomm - Journal of Income Distribution, 1997)

9. Is computer technology taught upside down? (SP Maj, D Veal, P Charlesworth - Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE …, 2000)

10. Antipodean literature: A world upside down? (J Docker - 1986 - Overland)

11. Upside-down brilliance: The visual-spatial learner (LK Silverman - 2002 - qagtc.org.au)

12. The parametrically excited upside-down rod: an elastic jointed pendulum model (J Galán, WB Fraser, DJ Acheson, AR Champneys - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2005)

13. Turning the library upside down: reorganization using total quality management principles (DK Fitch, J Thomason, EC Wells - The Journal of Academic Librarianship)

14. Have We Been Thinking Upside-Down? (E Huffer, R Qalo - The Contemporary Pacific, 2004)

15. Why bats hang upside down: a biomechanical hypothesis. (DJ Howell, J Pylka - Journal of theoretical biology, 1977)

16. Can a Novice Be Viewed as an Expert Upside-Down? (IM Kinchin - School Science Review, 2001)

17. Trader Down Under: Upside down and inside out (M Bearman, K Duddy, K Raymond, A Vogel - Theory and Practice of Object Systems, 1997)

18. Don Quixote, the Hero Upside-Down (JM Sobre - Hispanic Review, 1976)

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Peculiar galaxies

A list of categories of galactic peculiarity, from 'A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations' here
1. Galaxies with interacting companions
1a.Strong Interaction with Spiral Arms
1b.Strong Interaction with Main Body
1c.Wider Interactions
1d.Less Strong Interaction
2. Interacting doubles
2a.E + E Interaction
2b.E + S Interaction
2c.S + S Interaction
3. Interacting triples
3a.Simple Interacting Triples
3b.Interacting Triples which are Aligned
4. Interacting quartets
5. Interacting quintets
6. Ring galaxies
6a.Empty Rings and Displaced Nuclei
6b.Thin Rings and Centered Nuclei
6c.Irregular Rings and Possible Ring-Like Forms
7. Galaxies with jets
7a.Jets from E or E-Like Galaxies
7b.Jets from Spirals
7c.Jets from Various Kinds of Galaxies
7d.Jets from Companion Galaxies
8. Galaxies with apparent companions
8a.Galaxies with Single Apparent Companions
8b.Galaxies with Diametric Apparent Companions
8c.Galaxies with Apparent Companions which are DoubleGalaxies with Numerous Apparent Companions
9. M51-types
10. Galaxies with peculiar spiral arms
10a.E's with Faint Rings
10b.Circular (Ring) Spiral Arms and One-Armed Spirals
11. Three-armed spirals and multiple-armed spirals
12. Peculiar disks
13. Compact galaxies
14. Galaxies with prominent or unusual dust absorption
15. Galaxies with tails, loops of material or debris
16. Irregular or disturbed galaxies
17. Chains
18. Groups
19. Clusters
20. Dwarf galaxies
21. Stellar objects with associated nebulosity
22. Miscellaneous
23. Close pairs
24. Close triples
25. Planetary nebulae