鈥淲ith regards to Neil Young, I really enjoy his music and have had a great appreciation of him as an activist for peace and justice.鈥�
Biologist Jason Bond of East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, who has discovered a new species of trapdoor spider. He opted to name the spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after his favourite musician (Reuters, 12 May)
鈥淲e don鈥檛 really have laser cannons, but sometimes I like to pretend.鈥�
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US astronaut Garrett Reisman interviewed live from the International Space Station by the comedian Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report, Comedy Central, 8 May)
鈥淚n almost every transit system I talk to, we鈥檙e seeing very high rates of growth the last few months.鈥�
High fuel prices in the US are persuading drivers to take public transport instead, says William Millar, president of the American Public Transportation Association (The New York Times, 12 May)
鈥淲e have not got any aid from anyone. We have lost everything. We only have the clothes we are wearing.鈥�
Man Mu, a mother of five from one of the thousands of tiny villages in the Irrawaddy delta region of Burma that were pulverised by cyclone Nargis this month (AFP, 12 May)鈥�
鈥淭he word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless childish.鈥�
Albert Einstein in a letter written in 1954 to the philospher Eric Gutkind. The item is due to be auctioned in London this week and could sell for as much as 拢8000 (The Guardian, London, 13 May)