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It's funny, my mind is working overtime all day long.  Thoughts, ideas, memories... like some sort of cloud around my consciousness.  Words get caught in my head in much the same way that a song would, repeating ad nauseum until I seek out another to silence it.  Binomial Nomenclature is a common one.  I don't even know how it ever gets there.  It's not as if it's a word that I hear regularly.  I guess it's like an echo of a childhood song, stored for years in some crevice of your brain, popping out at a seemingly irrelevant moment to haunt you.  I wonder though, IS it irrelevant?  What triggers the memory?  Is it a similar state of being that connects you, or is it something more tangible?  Perhaps a smell, or a season.  Perhaps the first time I ever heard "Itsy Bitsy Spider" was on a crisp fall day, and now every autumn I'm doomed to hum it for a day or so.  So when did I first hear binomial nomenclature?  What feelings, in these moments that it pops up, do I share with the Laura that first learned of it?  Honestly I don't even recall it's meaning, so that makes it a little hard.  Seems to me that it's a scientific term, and my mind thinks that it was in 8th grade science class.  Who knows?  I'll have to look it up.

Anyway, this blog isn't really ABOUT anything.  I just noticed that my recent blogs, although full of content, really lacked any substance.  Well, any of ME anyway.  Just copied and pasted articles.  Not really the reason that I started blogging to begin with.  Unfortunately I'm a full blown "knowledge addict", and I always want to share it with others when I learn something cool.  Like these two articles on Geomythology (here and here).  So I guess this blog is a compromise.  If nothing else, it's a baby step toward letting some of the crap that's in my head out :)

Oh, and AS an admitted knowledge addict, I can now tell you that it's the term used for the formal system of naming specific species.  Must have been 10th grade AP Biology then. 

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