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Naming Nature

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Hurricane Katrina's name will not be forgotten in the southern United States for years to come. But why
Katrina? And why microscopic beings on the sea bed named after the Sex Pistols? Ian McMillan gets to grips with the protocol surrounding the naming of natural phenomena and discovers that, where he'd expected poetry, it's frequently more a case of scientific one-upmanship. Producer Marya Burgess

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Ian McMillan
Producer:
Marya Burgess
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