<p>Direct from the BBC News science page:</p>
<p>[BBC</a> NEWS | Science/Nature | Great tits cope well with warming](<a href=“http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7390109.stm]BBC”>BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Great tits cope well with warming)</p>
<p>Now wait a minute… the editors had to guess that title just MIGHT be an eye-catcher to those of us across the ocean. And the bulgey-eyed baby bird isn’t exactly the first thing you might expect to see when you click…
And let the record show that the Tufted titmouse just happens to be one of my favorite little visitors here, behind the nuthatch, chickadee and junco.</p>
<p>I would have thought it would be just the opposite.</p>
<p>The article’s title is certainly an eye catcher for lots of people. I found it while reading some unrelated news on the BBC site. It was listed as the top Most Popular Story Read Now. It is down to 3rd now, but it is now the top Most Popular Story Emailed Now.</p>
<p>It’s funny… when my children were young and got all giggly about “bad words”, I used to tell them that there are no bad words, just bad word uses: e.g. “ass” is just another word for “donkey”. Luckily they had not heard of George Carlin’s “Seven words you can’t say on Television” and they did not think of the obvious ones.</p>
<p>I’m glad to report that today’s article reduces the number of words you can’t say on TV to six.</p>