Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Quotation Marks Can Be Helpful

Time headline: Scientists Found More Than a Million Rare Penguins in Antarctica

Suggested edit: Scientists Found More Than a Million "Rare" Penguins in Antarctica
The Adélie penguin supercolony (NY Times photo)
A previously unknown “supercolony” of more than 1.5 million penguins has been discovered by scientists in the Danger Islands, a chain of nine islands located off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula....

The team proceeded to count the number of birds by hand and used a modified commercial quadcopter drone to take images of the entire island from above, to help locate penguin nests that have gone undetected for decades. They counted 751,527 pairs of penguins in total.
As an auditor I counted tons of walnuts, prunes, seeds, blooms and slabs, all for different clients, of course. And I did it while wearing a suit! And I used a notepad with a clipboard! (geezer)

In every profession one has to pay one's dues.

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