Article: 13 Scientific Terms You Might Be Using Wrong
Good article.
Meteor vs asteroid, theory, fossil, etc.
I do have one objection: the "birds are really dinosaurs" meme. No, they are not. It is cool to be able to say that birds are descended from dinosaurs. It has the "shiver" of being amazingly counter-intuitive.
On the other hand, it is like saying humans are really reptiles or amphibians or segmented worms or bacteria because, in theory, humans are descended from extinct organisms that were reptiles or amphibians or segmented worms or bacteria. We aren't. They aren't. Case closed.
Besides which, this has nothing to do with the rest of the article. It is like the author had a cool fact that he needed to say.
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