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posted by janrinok on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the call-me-what-you-will dept.

The BBC has an article about how a name can affect someone throughout their life. One table shows the chance of attending Oxford with a given name, and a graph shows the downward trend of naming children one of the top 50 most popular names.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:03AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:03AM (#30457) Journal

    I liked especially this line, below an image with the title "Nomen est omen":

    My name is Sue Yoo and I'm a lawyer.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
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