Category: nerd-fabulousness
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Nerd Fabulous, Party of One (Your Table’s Ready)
Someone should buy one of these for Srikanth Reddy, because I think of his poem about Esperanto every time I wear it. Fun facts about Esperanto (via Wikipedia): Esperanto was developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s by ophthalmologist Dr. Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof, an Ashkenazi Jew from Bialystok, now in Poland and previously in […]
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From Jennifer Ouellette’s The Physics of the Buffyverse
Buffy battles a Turok-han in “Bring On the Night” “Yet there are aspects of vampire lore that resemble the symptoms of real diseases. Most notably, porphyria is a hereditary disease in which the body doesn’t produce sufficient heme, an iron-rich pigment in the blood. Those who suffer from certain types of porphyria are highly sensitive […]
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