What's up? The exams are nigh! Repent and revise while you can!

Okay. This post goes for my “Avanzado” students. Sorry Intermedio 1. There’ll be another time.

To those who attended our last evening class, Thursday might well have been an unforgettable day. The number of subjects that were broached run the gamut from marksmen in hostile territory to to Alan Turing and the Apple logo. There were so many unconventional comments, so many unrelated words. The reference to male urine leakage products was a tad too surreal but still memorable, wasn’t it?

Anyhow, I’ve been thinking about what we’ve covered so far including the time I asked you how you would feel if a spider was named after you. I’ve also pondered some of the remarks in Brian’s presentation about TV shows and Films and the whole experience has been quite positive. The names of living creatures and the titles of certain quality TV shows filled my head squirming like tropical fishes in a huge aquarium. So I done some quick Internet research and… guess what? I found a brand new species (in the science books, anyway): a sea slug which was discovered in Brazil in 2013. The biologists who discovered it decided to honor Daeneris Targaryen, the blondest character in HBO’s “Game of Thrones”… Learn about the tritoniakhaleesi right here. So, there you go. As I told you, many recently discovered species are named after celebrities (or even movie characters) for very different reasons. If you’re curious about it you may want to check out these two spiders: the calponiaharrisonfordi and the aptostichusangelinajoliae. Andi f you are truly interested here’s a list of organisms named alter famous people.

In the “Game of Thrones” vein… Remember the text we read about Red Nose Day? Well, last May Red Nose organizers decided to do something truly original: they edited a (fake) video showing Coldplay writing songs for a Game of Thrones Broadway musical. Many members of the actual cast agreed to participate: the outcome is simply hilarious.