Comments on: Wired Calls Out Top Science Cliches, Gives Credit Where It’s Due http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/21/wired-calls-out-top-science-cliches-gives-credit-where-its-due/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:04:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Diana Kenney http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/21/wired-calls-out-top-science-cliches-gives-credit-where-its-due/comment-page-1/#comment-24827 Diana Kenney Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:48:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/21/wired-calls-out-top-science-cliches-gives-credit-where-its-due/#comment-24827 And let's ban the word "breakthrough," while we're at it. And let’s ban the word “breakthrough,” while we’re at it.

]]> By: Albert Bakker http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/21/wired-calls-out-top-science-cliches-gives-credit-where-its-due/comment-page-1/#comment-24786 Albert Bakker Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:31:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/21/wired-calls-out-top-science-cliches-gives-credit-where-its-due/#comment-24786 It's a revolution in science! (69 million hits) Absolutely brilliant, we should have a periodical review to see if it is necessary to invent other ways to say the same thing, like metadesignations. That way we are never going to have awful clichés ànd google searches will automatically be equipped with another time-index. I liked the light that was shed on the 6.66 million number though. Coincidence? Yeah, why not? It’s a revolution in science! (69 million hits) Absolutely brilliant, we should have a periodical review to see if it is necessary to invent other ways to say the same thing, like metadesignations. That way we are never going to have awful clichés ànd google searches will automatically be equipped with another time-index.

I liked the light that was shed on the 6.66 million number though. Coincidence? Yeah, why not?

]]> By: The Science Pundit http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/21/wired-calls-out-top-science-cliches-gives-credit-where-its-due/comment-page-1/#comment-24781 The Science Pundit Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:18:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/21/wired-calls-out-top-science-cliches-gives-credit-where-its-due/#comment-24781 I <b>hate</b> the <i>Holy Grail</i> metaphor!! Every time someone uses it, I'm tempted to say (and on a couple occassions I actually did say it) "You mean it's something people have been searching for for years and years, but nobody will ever find because it's just a myth and doesn't actually exist?" I hate the Holy Grail metaphor!! Every time someone uses it, I’m tempted to say (and on a couple occassions I actually did say it) “You mean it’s something people have been searching for for years and years, but nobody will ever find because it’s just a myth and doesn’t actually exist?”

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