鈥淵ou can鈥檛 go around the world yelling about Iranian and North Korean programmes 鈥� about which we know very little 鈥� when we鈥檝e got all this going on.鈥�
Milton Leitenberg, a weapons expert at the University of Maryland, College Park, on the secret National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center being built at Fort Detrick, Maryland, arguing that it could be seen as an infringement of bioweapons treaties (The Washington Post, 30 July)
鈥淏eautiful parents have more daughters than ugly parents.鈥�
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Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics on his team鈥檚 finding that attractive people are 36 per cent more likely to have daughters than sons (The Daily Telegraph, London, 31 July)
鈥淐an we just agree God invented Darwin?鈥�
Weary Sue Gamble of the Kansas State Board of Education on the acrimony within the board over the teaching of evolution in Kansas schools (The New York Timesi, 29 July)
鈥淲hat the Invisible Woman does is curve space around herself to bend light. These devices would mimic that.鈥�
Ulf Leonhardt, a physicist at the University of St Andrews, UK, on theoretical devices that could create a cloak of invisibility by deflecting light (MSNBC, 31 July)
鈥淭he mouth is a communication organ, a sexual organ and it is cosmetic 鈥� it is not just for eating.鈥�
Hans Zoellner of the Association for the Promotion of Oral Health in Australia, bemoaning the lack of attention to dental health in the country (The Age, Melbourne, Australia, 27 July)