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"I called both of them yesterday and learned not only how the Rowling investigation worked, but about the fascinating world of forensic linguistics." Cringe.
by GigabyteCoin 13y ago
"I called both of them yesterday and learned not only how the Rowling investigation worked, but about the fascinating world of forensic linguistics."
Cringe.
From my experience (gleaned from dutifully reading every Bitcoin-related article I can get my hands on) I am very wary of reading about any topic which the author admits to just having learnt about yesterday.
The majority of the time, unfortunately, English majors aren't the best at understanding technology.
- pcl 13y agoOn the other hand, I didn't know anything about forensic linguistics until reading the article. This is exactly the sort of curiosity and follow-through that I want to see in a journalist.
- cschmidt 13y agoThat's a bit harsh. The article was by Virginia Hughes, who seems a reasonable science writer, who has written for Nature, etc. Fundamentally, that's what science writers do. They learn about new discoveries, figure out what they mean, and explain them to us. There is a lot of bad science writing out there, but I didn't find it to be an example of that. She has a degree in neuroscience from Brown, so she's not an "English major".