I'm enough of a nerd to be excited, but enough of an ignoramus to not be too excited. The Periodic Table of Elements has a new member. Or, more accurately, one of the unnamed elements on the Periodic Table - element 112, which has dragged the ugly name Ununbium around for the past dozen years - has finally been given a name (which, technically, still has to be ratified by the suits at the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry).
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Copernicium.
It's named after Nicolaus Copernicus, which is brilliant enough news on its own.