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Tag: newspaper

‘Dog Stories’ (their value for journalists)

December 26, 2014 Martin Gardiner

How can professional journalists draw public attention to important news stories? A team of investigators from the University of California and the University of Miami have a word of advice. And the word is ‘Dogs’. Their findings are published in PS: Political Science & Politics, (Volume 47, Issue 04, October 2014, pp 819-823) under the […]

Research Newsdog, Dogs, journalism, journalist, news, newspaper

Animal Fighters Speculation (c.1901)

October 2, 2013 Martin Gardiner

“Supposing all the animals in the ‘Zoo’ at Regent’s Park [London] were to begin a fight to the death, who would be the ultimate victor?” – asked a syndicated item in The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania) on Wednesday the 16th of January 1901. The article ran through the various fighting attributes of elephants, lions, tigers, deer, […]

Arts and Scienceanimals, fight, history, lion, newspaper, tiger, zoo

Telegraph: BBQ sauce good for health!

March 25, 2010 Marc Abrahams

The London Telegraph cautiously interprets a possibly new research study, presenting the happy headlines: Barbecue sauces ‘are good for your health’ Barbecue sauces can be good for your health, scientists have found. (Thanks to investigator Ron Josephson for bringing this to our attention.)

Arts and Science, Research Newsbarbeque, health, newspaper, sauce, Telegraph
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