“Yes, we admit we are human too. We apologise that this thing happened.”
Greenpeace campaign manager Von Hernandez on the damage caused by its flagship Rainbow Warrior II to a world heritage site coral reef in the Philippines that the environmental campaigners were supposed to protect (Philippine Star, 5 November)
“When you’ve got three kids getting ready for school…and the network isn’t working because it needs an upgrade… you’re going to go straight to your garage and get your sledgehammer.”
Advertisement
Ian Pearson, futurist-in-residence at British Telecom, on potential pitfalls of the totally networked home (Wired News, 8 November)
“Some people took five years, some people took six months. None of them were instantly addicted.”
Ross Coomber of the University of Plymouth, UK, on a study showing that it takes more than one hit of heroin to become addicted (The Age, Melbourne, 8 November)
“Every diesel car can be a tempura car.”
Motoo Yoshimura, professor of environmental studies at Tottori University, Japan, who has started a bus service fuelled by diesel mixed with processed cooking oil, including oil used to make tempura (Asahi Shimbun, 8 November)
“It is the first time that sexual copulation has been discovered in a fossil state.”
Ranjeet Kar at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, India, on the discovery of two 65-million-year-old slime mould cells fossilised in the act of sexual reproduction (The Hindu, 2 November)
