Non-story of the Week
By Hayley Birch
However you dress them up, there are some scientific studies that are just never going to grab the headlines.Take, for instance, yesterday’s “revelation” that the world’s second largest desert is older than previously thought. Now there are a number of reasons why this fails so spectacularly to impress. First of all, it’s the world’s second largest desert; not the largest, no, the second largest. Who even knows what the world’s first largest desert is? Okay, so geography’s never been my strong point, but…
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