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I appreciate the author who took the time and energy to write this, but I do find the conversational personification style annoying.
by spraak 10y ago
I appreciate the author who took the time and energy to write this, but I do find the conversational personification style annoying.
- theparanoid 10y agoIt's remarkably poor writing for the NYT.
- JBReefer 10y agoThe Times has gone steeply downhill the last few years. It's hard to balance cost, profits, and quality - the coverage of local issues in particular is weirdly off. Sometimes it can feel like someone in Oregon describing my neighborhood: it's not wrong or mean, it's just not "local"
- oska 10y agoThree alternative articles covering the new research: [1] http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-just-found-evidence-of-a-lost-continent-under-mauritius http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-just-found-evidence-... [2] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119963-long-lost-continent-found-submerged-deep-under-indian-ocean/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119963-long-lost-conti... [3] https://phys.org/news/2017-01-lost-continent-mauritius.html https://phys.org/news/2017-01-lost-continent-mauritius.html