8 Feb
2001
8 Feb
'01
5:54 p.m.
In message Pine.OSF.3.96.1010207160548.9379K-100000@bscomp, Iain Coleman ijc@bas.ac.uk writes
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 jacquispeel@netscape.net wrote:
Apparently the penguins do not fall over when a helicopter goes above them (probably did it only the first few times) contrary to some tabloid newspaper reports.
Now this was an interesting exercise in media treatment of science.
And tying back in to the other part of the thread - I may be a character junkie, but the only reason you didn't get this rant from me as well is that I didn't have the references readily to hand. Probably a good thing, as Iain knew more details than I did.
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Julia Jones