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  2. A Meteorologist Weighs in on the Science Behind 'Twisters'

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    "In the original Twister, the idea of putting these Dorothy sensor balls into a tornado is completely science fiction, but it inspired a generation of people to want to do scientific research on ...

  3. We Asked a Meteorologist All Your Questions About ‘Twisters’

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    A friendly reminder: Twisters is a work of fiction.You don’t need a scientist to tell you that driving straight into a tornado is a horrible idea—and you certainly already guessed that killing ...

  4. The Real History Behind 'Twisters' - AOL

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    C entral to the plot of Twisters, the 2024 stand-alone sequel to the 1996 blockbuster Twister, is a scientific dream: researcher Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) wants to launch absorbent polymer ...

  5. List of unusual biological names - Wikipedia

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    Unusual names have caused issues for scientists explaining genetic diseases to lay-people, such as when an individual is affected by a gene with an offensive or insensitive name. [13] This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell ...

  6. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a slang term meaning sexually aroused (American horny) * a male or female given name or nickname deriving from the names Randall, Randolph, or Miranda range: a line, collection, etc. of products or merchandise, as in top of the range (US: top of the line) a type of kitchen stove like that featured on the TV programme The 1900 House

  7. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

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    This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...

  8. Talk:Twisters (film) - Wikipedia

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    The piece is literally named 'Twisters' whips up lessons for Disney and far-left Hollywood and the article itself uses the phrase far-left more than it does even the title of the film Twisters, while using the phrase tornado exactly 0 times. For a review of an action film, I can't find any mention of any sort of action scenes in the review.

  9. Names (journal) - Wikipedia

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    Names is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that is devoted to the scholarly investigation of names and naming . Established in 1952, this open-access journal is published by the University of Pittsburgh. It is the official journal of the American Name Society. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor I. M. Nick, Past President of the American ...