rock star ardi? Re: [xmca] http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/ardipithecus/

[Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>]

Aside from the substantive science, there's a communications / media issue 
that would be of interest to some people here:

The rollout of the event on Discovery channel was carefully staged as a 
publicity event, with scientists involved overtly saying that if rock 
stars and athletes do it this way, why shouldn't scientists, also?

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:

> http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/ardipithecus/
>
> The Discovery channel HD programs on Ardi are incredible. Highly
> recommended!!
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Tony Whitson
UD School of Education
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