An example of an athropomorphic metaphor in public science discourse:
"they [neutrinos] are very shy"
Prof. Andrew Pontzen
Prof. Andrew Pontzen (Professor of Cosmology, UCL) was talking on an episode ('Mapping the universe') of BBC Inside Science
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