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eppur_se_muova

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10. Ah, a fellow hairsplitter -- at least they didn't make the usual mistake of saying "new dinosaur discovered ..."
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 11:09 PM
6 hrs ago

but, more correctly, fossil of new dinosaur discovered ... well, newly discovered, not new fossil ... but you know ...

Whenever I see a headline about "new dinosaur discovered" I have a brief (what I call) "Calvin & Hobbes" moment, after a cartoon the details of which I can't recall right now ... I had a similar experience, though, IRL when I saw a newspaper article about a UC professor who kept dozens of spiders in her office -- leaving me with the impression that this was a wildly, crazy cool professor -- only to be quickly disillusioned when further reading revealed the spiders were confined in separate containers, not free to roam the office, as the headline of the article seemed to suggest. Hard not to feel a little letdown from such misleadingly worded articles.

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