"There's no way the public should have to remember these names," said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, lead author of the study announcing the discovery of Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f. "I'm working like 15 hours a day on Kepler, and I'm not sure I could tell you which one is each of the Kepler planets."

Exoplanet researchers could work together to develop a coherent naming system, one with consistent rules or guidelines, Fressin suggested. As an example of such a system, he pointed to the planets of our own solar system, all of which except Earth are named for Greek or Roman gods.

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After my friend introduced himself to me as "Philip May, my name makes a sentence," I became obsessed with Sentence Names. There was Jessica Struggles, Jenny Rocks, Jeff Hurt, Emily Rose, etc. Once you've heard of them, you see Sentence Names everywhere. Here are some you may have heard of: Dean Winters.

LinkedIn has mined their data and figured out the most common first names of CEOs. Here is the one conclusion we can draw from this infographic: The only kind of CEOs who use LinkedIn are middle-aged CEOs. Other than that, I guess we can surmise that women named Deborah/Debra clearly have some sort of natural leadership ability. (Oh, and we can also tell — by cross-referencing this data with this other study about names — that these people didn't get to be CEOs by sleeping their way to the top.)

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Here's a handful of deeply scientific facts about sluttiness and names. I asked my friend Dorothy who her three-tenths of a person was, and what that experience was like, but she wouldn't tell me.

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Are you having a baby this week? Why don't you name it after some kids who were on the Mayflower? Damaris is pretty hot for a girl, as is Wrestling for a boy. Wrestling!

Jake sometimes refers to my husband, Andy, as “Dad” because it’s easier to say than stepfather; Elke calls Jake’s father “Dad,” because she’s mimicking her brother; Elke skipped over “Dada” and “Daddy” altogether, choosing to call her own father “Andy” — we’ve managed to guide the kids with few bumps and a sense of unity.

What do your children from your first marriage call their half- or step-siblings from your second marriage, and what will they call one another when you all get divorced, or die?

"When she met David Lauren on a rainy New York night in April of 2004, the last thing on model Lauren Bush’s mind was how their names might sound together if they married. But now, seven years later, the two are engaged, and the 26-year-old is facing the fact that she’ll soon be Lauren Lauren…So how to solve the problem? 'I think it will be Lauren Bush-Lauren,' she says. 'That’s not final, but I think it’s nice to have the same name as your husband. I am sort of old-fashioned in that way.'" —Does that really solve the problem though, other than letting people know you're doubly loaded? [...]