Today I Learned:
1) The IUPAC has specific criteria for what you can name a new element -- it can be a "mythological concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property, or a scientist". Elements are named by the teams that discover them, although I don't entirely know what it means to discover an element (I gather it's really more synthesis of the element -- for short-lived elements it seems to be unequivocal detection and identification of the breakdown products). More info about naming elements at http://ift.tt/1kDTDjV.
2) What beaver-bitten trees look like, in person. I think. I don't know what else those could have been.
3) Hershey's chocolate syrup and soy milk make a delicious, delicious drink. (Also, from last night -- Frangelico and soy milk).
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