Bazinga! Bee Named to Honor Dr. Sheldon Cooper

Thanks to Andre Nemesio of the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Brazil), nerds everywhere can share this piece of taxonomic trivia with their friends of average intellect. Nemesio has named a newly described species of orchard bee Euglossa bazinga, an homage to television's patron saint of geniuses, Dr. Sheldon Cooper. And if you don't get the joke, you're not a fan of The Big Bang Theory.

_{Source: A Brand New Bee Was Just Named After Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, Smithsonian Magazine, December 17, 2010}