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)