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May 6, 2016

Boaty McBoatface and the challenge of Internet polls

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag #nameourship, boaty mcboatface, democracy, environment, Europe, history, Internet, nerc, poll, research, sir david attenborough, UK

In March, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), which funds the British Antarctic Survey, opened a competition. This was to name the new research vessel that will operate in the…