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Re: Interesting Article
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Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:33:45 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, David Drew writes:
> Hi,
> Here's an article posted in the UK's Telegraph, where a Nobel-prize winning
> chemist blames the rise in popularity of Lego over Meccano for the decrease
> of the UK's scientists and Engineers. The man's obviously never played with
> Technic. :)
[snip]
And this big news has finally filtered through to the Australian media - the
story appearing in yesterday's SMH:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0107/18/world/world6.html
Cheers
Richie Dulin
Patrician of Brick-Morpork
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Message has 1 Reply: ![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: Interesting Article
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| It also appeared in Monday's Melbourne Age in the Today section. They did mention the reaction to the original article by someone from Lego Uk. cheers SAB (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| Hi, Here's an article posted in the UK's Telegraph, where a Nobel-prize winning chemist blames the rise in popularity of Lego over Meccano for the decrease of the UK's scientists and Engineers. The man's obviously never played with Technic. :) (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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