tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724376948636627084.post623804998381110525..comments2024-03-20T21:38:10.502+00:00Comments on Science matters: Spelling of coleoptera?BobTheScientisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02038631019672961663noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724376948636627084.post-10883446602074846872013-04-14T17:38:18.051+01:002013-04-14T17:38:18.051+01:00Begob and you're right. **We** could start edi...Begob and you're right. **We** could start editing up Wikipedia to more properly treat things that didn't happen in the last week. It's rather sad how the relentless trumpeting of the latest fad/celeb/murder makes us forget the good/great of the past. So when RTE runs a survey to identify the most important Irish people ever, we can remember and vote for Bono, Jedward, and Katie Taylor but cannot recall John Tyndall, William Rowan Hamilton, Robert Boyle, JD Bernal, Robert Lloyd Praeger, William Thomson, William Parsons of Birr Castle, or Ernest "Nobel" Walton - and that's just (some of) the scientists! BobTheScientisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02038631019672961663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3724376948636627084.post-47908656896842307722013-04-14T14:36:01.146+01:002013-04-14T14:36:01.146+01:00further proof of its worth - no reference there ei...further proof of its worth - no reference there either of Deakin or The Children on the Hill - did the book drop out of the sky? but thanks for the lead!Russiansidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07899160232382119090noreply@blogger.com