I'd just like to to point out that these guys aren't technically scientists and certainly aren't scientists at Cambridge University! The press seems to have jumped the gun with this one and a lot of silly assumptions have been made about this on a slow news day. Also, the work wasn't actually done by one person, but a company called True Knowledge. Their original blog article can be found here on blog.trueknowledge.com/2010/11/most-boring-day-in-history.html.
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I'd just like to to point out that these guys aren't technically scientists and certainly aren't scientists at Cambridge University! The press seems to have jumped the gun with this one and a lot of silly assumptions have been made about this on a slow news day. Also, the work wasn't actually done by one person, but a company called True Knowledge. Their original blog article can be found here on blog.trueknowledge.com/2010/11/most-boring-day-in-history.html.