Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
INFORMATICS
Etymology
Noun
informatics (uncountable)
(computing) A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.
Hyponyms
• bioinformatics
• community informatics
• ecoinformatics
• health informatics
• hydroinformatics
• legal informatics
• nanoinformatics
• neuroinformatics
• nursing informatics
• social informatics
• veterinary informatics
Source: Wiktionary
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