“It’s gorgeous! And it’s not even real!”
Blogger Phil Plait gets excited about the first 3D computer-generated image of a sunspot’s magnetic field (, 22 June)
“The physics of the first kiss were off. I knew where I needed to be, but it was hard to reconcile the differences.”
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Noah Fulmor on getting married on board a parabolic flight – reported as the world’s first wedding in zero gravity (, 20 June)
“The markets will be reacting if he looks awful.”
Technology analyst Van Baker speculates about Apple boss Steve Jobs’s scheduled return to work this month, following a reported liver transplant (, 22 June)
“The giant dinosaurs probably were only about half as heavy as believed.”
Gary Packard of Colorado State University finds a flaw in the algorithm used to estimate the weight of large extinct animals from their fossils (, 21 June)
“We’ve got to get rid of the green noise. Vague and misleading terms should not be allowed.”
Urvashi Rangan of the Consumers Union on the finding that the claims supporting more than 98 per cent of products in US stores labelled “natural” or “green” may be false or misleading (, 21 June)
“If every US dairy farmer reduced emissions by 12 per cent it would be equal to about half a million cars being taken off the road.”
Nancy Hirshberg of yogurt producer Stonyfield Farm, on cutting methane emissions from their cows by feeding them alfalfa, flax and hemp ( 22 June)