Geography and language
A museum fossil display can include casts
A complete-looking skeleton on screen need not consist entirely of original fossil material from one discovery.
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The viewing journal — page 146
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Geography and language
Coordinates on screen: decimal degrees and minutes differ
A location copied from a documentary can land in the wrong place if degrees, minutes and seconds are read as decimal degrees.
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Radiocarbon dates: BP is not years before today
An archaeology programme’s date in BP needs its measurement context.
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Furigana helps read Japanese; it is not an English translation
A Japanese learning programme can supply a script with small pronunciation guides beside kanji.
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Weather charts: issued time and valid time are different
A forecast map has a time when it was issued and a time for the conditions it depicts.
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A launch webcast start is not a guaranteed liftoff time
A space-launch programme can begin before the launch opportunity opens and continue through a delay or a scrub.
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