This dumbass headline makes me so angry. All science stands on the shoulders of previous science. Stupid, stupid sensationalist UK media.
We are all taught ancient mathematics in school, and its awesome, but not amazing.
I think the headline was for the benefit of the Malaysian PM who referred to the Doppler analysis as “NEW”.
He needs to go back to school — they teach it in 6th grade.
Yeah, next headline we'll see:
How a Bloke from Kent Knew to Take His Umbrella and Not Get Wet Thanks to Weather.com's Use of a 16th Century Map Making Technique and a Nineteeth Century Mathematical Model to Produce a Picture Showing Where it is Raining