“NFL broadcasting cliches will come back to haunt you”

Norman Chad comments on some of the worst of announcer-speak. Two examples: “He is able to walk off the field under his own power.”: How else do you walk off the field? Heck, you never hear about somebody “walking away from a meeting under his own power” or “walking away from a marriage under his own […]

 


























“Biblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They’re Absolutely Enormous”

The story of another scientist who was laughed at but whose truth eventually won. Long before the discovery of the scablands, geologists dismissed the role of catastrophic floods in interpreting European geology. . . . [J. Harlen] Bretz was a classic field geologist and a controversial figure throughout his career. In 1925 he presented the […]