鈥淚f you take a bath there, you have all the antibiotics you need for treatment.鈥�
Chemist Klaus Kuemmerer of the University of Freiburg Medical Center, Germany, on the finding that streams around Hyderabad, India, contain unprecedented levels of antibiotics (Associated Press, 26 January)
鈥淯nlike other Antarctic bird species that have altered their life cycles, penguins don鈥檛 catch on so quickly.鈥�
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Stephanie Jenouvrier of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, whose research on the effects of climate change predicts that emperor penguin numbers are likely to plummet by 95 per cent by 2100 (BBC News online, 26 January)
鈥淎 lot of editors are becoming disenchanted with the project.鈥�
Wikipedia editor Jake Wartenberg on a proposal that changes to the online encyclopedia should be pre-approved. It was prompted in part by false statements on the site last week saying two prominent US politicians had died (The Guardian, London, 27 January)
鈥淚t鈥檚 better than the status quo. Everyone would like to see less whales killed.鈥�
William Hogarth of the International Whaling Commission gives his opinion of a pact under negotiation that would permit Japan to undertake whaling off its coast in exchange for scaling back 鈥渟cientific鈥� whale hunts (The Washington Post, 27 January)
鈥淪tudies have found toxins in the semen and the fluid produced in the prostate. As you age it is more important to flush them out.鈥�
Polyxeni Dimitripolou of the University of Nottingham, UK, who found that frequent masturbation and sexual activity helps protect men in their 50s from prostate cancer (The Independent, London, 27 January)