“The idea is that you would see the body decomposing in a similar way to how it would decompose in the ground.”
Ben Gammon of the Science Museum, London, on proposals to exhibit a decomposing human body (The Sunday Times, London, 14 March)
“This bill says, ‘Don’t run off and file a lawsuit if you are fat.’ It says, ‘Look in the mirror because you’re the one to blame.'”
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Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr, a Republican from Wisconsin, commenting on the so-called “cheeseburger bill” that aims to stop people suing restaurants for making them obese (The New York Times, 11 March)
“This is a senseless slaughter and one that must be halted before we lose albatrosses for good.”
Mark Avery of the UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds attacks governments for failing to protect albatrosses from illegal long-line fishing (BBC news online, 13 March)
“It’s just paying attention to the world around you and trying to figure out why things happen the way they do. Anyone that goes into a pub and orders a pint of Guinness is a scientist.”
Andrew Alexander on how he came to explain why beer bubbles sometimes float downwards (Stanford University news release, 12 March)
“They didn’t want landing flags or rusting vehicles dumped on their land.”
Torsten-Eric Sendler, editor of the Sauerland Kurier in Germany, on why people who had bought plots on the moon were complaining to his paper about NASA’s plans to send astronauts back there (AFP News, 11 March)
