Nominative Determinism

A few inappropriate examples I have noticed this year:

Chris Pincher, the former Tory deputy chief whip, should be suspended from the Commons for eight weeks over “grave” sexual misconduct.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/07/first-edition-threads-meta-mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-twitter

Harm van Marwijk qualified as a GP in 1988.

Harm van Marwijk – The Conversation

Peter Bone has been stripped of the Conservative party whip after the MP was found to have bullied and harassed a member of staff and exposed his genitals near their face.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/17/peter-bone-loses-tory-whip-after-bullying-and-harassment-finding

Colombia has joined an alliance of countries calling for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. As a country with coal, oil and gas industries, this is a significant move.
The country’s president, Gustavo Petro, said “there is no other path”.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-11/coal-giant-colombia-wants-to-wean-its-economy-off-fossil-fuels

Seallafield

Such is the concern about its safety standards that US officials have warned of its creaking infrastructure in diplomatic cables

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-nuclear-site-leak-could-pose-risk-to-public

If cracks in the edifice continue to grow, officials will be forced to seal it up entirely in red tape.

Rathics

when a rat sees another rat in distress, the neural structures activated in that rat’s brain closely resembles those activated in humans brains when feeling empathy for pain of others.

One experiment showed that rats will release a fellow rat from an unpleasant cage even if they are not rewarded for it. And if given chocolate treats afterwards, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the former captive.

https://theconversation.com/rats-are-more-human-than-you-think-and-they-certainly-like-being-around-us-216846

Unlike humans, who will let anyone perish while we gorge ourselves.

Juxtacoincidence

• Temperatures in the Arctic are rising four times as fast as those in the rest of the world.

• Gas prices in the U.S. are falling quickly, helping to tame inflation.

Wednesday Briefing: A warning from President Biden

Any similarity to a causal link is coincidence.

Serotine Deviance

The scientists followed up by examining the anatomy of serotine bats, including live animals which helpfully develop erections when anaesthetised. This confirmed the impressive proportions of the penis but also revealed hairs on the heart-shaped head that may provide sensory feedback when searching for the vulva.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/20/caught-not-quite-in-the-act-church-cameras-reveal-bat-sex-ritual

On regaining consciousness, the bats confirmed that they intended to seek legal redress for being drugged and sexually abused.

Insectinside

A 63-year-old patient who went for a routine colon screening was found to have an intact fly in his colon. …

A lady in Taiwan recently made the news because a spider and its exoskeleton were found inside her ear.

https://theconversation.com/weird-and-wonderful-things-lost-then-found-inside-the-human-body-217338

There was an old patient who swallowed a fly;

I don’t know why he swallowed the fly;

Perhaps he was hungry.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider;

That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.

She swallowed the spider to catch a fly;

Doctors found no evidence she had swallowed a fly;

Perhaps it was hiding.