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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. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Onomastics - Wikipedia

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    An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians. Onomastics has applications in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Quiz: 'Twisters' storms into theaters, 'Hillbilly Elegy ... - AOL

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    In case you missed it, Glen Powell is back on the big screen, this time in Twisters with co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones. The standalone sequel follows the original film Twister, which hit theaters in 1996.

  8. Lists of nicknames - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [1] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule. A moniker also means a nickname or personal name.

  9. 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 ...