• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    15 days ago

    Believe it or not - the actual headline of the article is "How worried should we be about Disease X? : Goats and Soda : NPR". I snipped out "Goats and Soda" from my headline because I didn't want you to think I had lost my shit and I was just spouting random nonense.

    What's In Our Name: Why Goats? Why Soda? : Goats and Soda : NPR

    "Goats and Soda: Stories of Life in a Changing World." That's the name of NPR's new blog, covering health and all sorts of development around the world.

    [...]

    Anders Kelto, a radio reporter on our team who's been based in South Africa for the past four years, proposed: "Goats and Soda." Traveling about in Africa, he saw a lot of goats. And a lot of soda. "In rural southern Malawi, I came across a roadside snack shop in the middle of nowhere. The woman running the shop somehow had a refrigerator full of cold sodas. It struck me that a rather amazing sequence of events had led to that cold Coke in my hand."

    We liked the name. It's lively. It's down to earth. And it's definitely original. A google search for "Goats and Soda" yielded zero results. Then we had to ask ourselves: Does this name really make sense as a title for our blog? And will it cause any concerns?...