October 20, 2013 in Science & Technology
FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS ON TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants Kevin is VSAUCE2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2 music by: http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow Top 1000 US first names over time INTERACTIVE: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager surname geographical distribution INTERACTIVE: http://www.worldnames.publicprofiler.org Dolphins using names: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060508_dolphins.html Mental Floss VIDEO: things you didn’t know had names: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xJQyj8dSCg US ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: http://www.unicefusa.org/campaigns/public-policy-advocacy/the-convention-on-the-rights.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_ratification_of_the_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child Freakonomics “How Much Does Your Name Matter?”: http://freakonomics.com/2013/04/08/how-much-does-your-name-matter-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ Story of two children named “Winner” and “Loser”: http://www.sahio.com/the-story-of-two-brothers-named-winner-and-loser/ auto-antonyms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym Most common surnames: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames LONGEST NAME: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfe+585,_Senior Adolf Hitler Campbell: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/adolf-hitler-campbell-custody-battle-nazi-names-new-jersey_n_1561046.html endonym vs. exonym: http://mentalfloss.com/article/30810/why-are-there-different-names-same-country name laws: From Messiah to Hitler, What You
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FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS ON TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants Kevin is VSAUCE2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2 music by: http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow Top 1000 US first names over time INTERACTIVE: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager surname geographical distribution INTERACTIVE: http://www.worldnames.publicprofiler.org Dolphins using names: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060508_dolphins.html Mental Floss VIDEO: things you didn’t know had names: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xJQyj8dSCg US ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: http://www.unicefusa.org/campaigns/public-policy-advocacy/the-convention-on-the-rights.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_ratification_of_the_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child Freakonomics “How Much Does Your Name Matter?”: http://freakonomics.com/2013/04/08/how-much-does-your-name-matter-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ Story of two children named “Winner” and “Loser”: http://www.sahio.com/the-story-of-two-brothers-named-winner-and-loser/ auto-antonyms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym Most common surnames: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames LONGEST NAME: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfe+585,_Senior Adolf Hitler Campbell: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/adolf-hitler-campbell-custody-battle-nazi-names-new-jersey_n_1561046.html endonym vs. exonym: http://mentalfloss.com/article/30810/why-are-there-different-names-same-country name laws: From Messiah to Hitler, What You
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