鈥淎n orgasm a day keeps the doctor away鈥�
A National Health Service pamphlet being distributed in Sheffield, UK, advising teenagers that regular sex is good for cardiovascular health (The Times, London, 20 July)
鈥淲hen my wife was in labour she felt the need to eff and blind at one point, but was very apologetic afterwards. The midwife said they were used to that kind of language on the delivery ward, so it got me thinking鈥�
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Richard Stephens of Keele University in the UK, who found that volunteers were able to withstand pain for longer when they swore compared to when they used inoffensive words (The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 July)
鈥淭he intention is that it is a news service rather than a personal voice鈥�
A spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace explains why the British royal family has joined the Twitter micro-blogging revolution (BBC News, 10 July)
鈥淧angolins save us millions of dollars a year in pest destruction. We cannot afford to overlook their ecological role as controllers of termites and ants鈥�
Simon Stuart of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature on how the insatiable Chinese appetite for pangolin meat is driving them to extinction. Pangolins, or scaly anteaters, eat ants and termites (AFP, 14 July)
鈥淲here鈥檚 it going to end? Everything is getting sick because of one mission. And I鈥檓 not happy with that鈥�
Clive Neal, chair of NASA鈥檚 Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, on how the spiralling costs of the Mars Science Lab rover, due to launch in 2011, could delay other NASA missions (Nature, 10 July)