incidental findings...

[glitteringloke]

I was studying for a certification exam (that i have no idea when I'm taking) and stumbled upon a disease in the index: Wolfram's disease

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[scottishfae]

Your icon FTW!

[neocloud9]

-lol- Something similar happened to me lately. You've heard that the world's tungsten supplies are running out, and that soon we'll have to use florescent lightbulbs instead, right? Well, I was curious about that, so I looked up tungsten on the internet, and found out that its atomic symbol is W, because tungsten was originally called wolfram. Wolfram apparently means "wolf's froth" in German, because of the way tungsten eats away at tin. Like a wolf, I guess. o_o

[glitteringloke]

w00 go science!

[meomnimi]

and I looked it up on the dictionary:
wolframite
/'woolfruhmuyt/
noun a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe, Mn)WO[3], occurring in heavy, greyish to brownish black tabular or bladed crystals, an important ore of tungsten. density: 7.0-7.5.
Also, wolfram.
[G Wolframit, from Wolfram + -it -ite[1]]

[bodyline]

Sounds like a very bizarre fanfiction.

[yumeno_kumori]

I looked it up on Wikipedia. It's called Wolfram syndrome because "Wolfram" was the name of the doctor who discovered it.

And your icon is awesome!

[arylla]

That's too hilarious for words :'D

And, quite randomly: At first Wolfram's name bothered me, not because I knew the disease, but I always thought of a famous German poet, Wolfram von Eschenbach. Then I got for a while so into KKM that it turned into the opposite direction and I thought 'huh?' everytime I heard the poet's name in German classes.