鈥淓nergy efficiency is not just low-hanging fruit; it is fruit that is lying on the ground鈥�
Steven Chu, newly appointed US Secretary of Energy, writes about the easiest way to reduce the world鈥檚 carbon footprint. He is one of 20 Nobel laureates gathering in London this week for a climate change symposium (The Times, London, 26 May)
鈥淢y friends joke that I鈥檓 a stalker 鈥� I used to remember so many details about everyone.鈥�
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Jennifer Jarett, one of four 鈥渟uper recognisers鈥� who have an uncanny ability to recognise and remember faces. They were recently identified by a Harvard University study (The New York Times, 25 May)
鈥淚t just makes me want to cry to think that this is the end of it.鈥�
David Leckrone, senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope, bemoaning NASA鈥檚 decision to abandon human servicing of spacecraft such as Hubble (The Washington Post, 22 May)
鈥淭hey had no previous experience of making hook tools from wire because the birds were all hand-raised.鈥�
Nathan Emery of Queen Mary, University of London, explains why he believes that rooks鈥� ability to make and use a hook is a product of their intelligence not a learned behaviour (Associated Press, 26 May)
鈥淭he idea of using it with vulnerable children with autism, who pose no danger to anyone鈥� fills me with horror.鈥�
Simon Baron-Cohen, an autism researcher at the University of Cambridge, on reports that the drug Lupron, used to chemically castrate sex offenders, is being used in the US to treat children with autism (Los Angeles Times, 24 May)