“My mom takes me to church every Sunday; my dad gives me all the science books he can. Personally, I don’t know what to think.”
Fifteen-year-old Jeremy Hurst of Lebec, California, whose father is suing the board of his school for introducing a “philosophy of design” course, which casts doubt on Darwinian evolution (Los Angeles Times, 12 January)
“When she asks, I’ll tell her where she came from.”
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Romanian Adriana Iliescu, who last year at 66 became the oldest woman to give birth, on the first birthday of her daughter Eliza. Both sperm and egg came from anonymous donors (The Observer, London, 15 January)
“He faked everything: names, diagnosis, gender, weight, age, drug use.”
Stein Vaaler of the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo on colleague Jon Sudboe, who admitted inventing a study of more than 900 individuals which concluded that anti-inflammatory drugs help prevent oral cancer. It was published last October in The Lancet (The Guardian, London, 16 January)
“Before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs that survive will be in the Arctic, where the climate remains tolerable.”
James Lovelock, author of the forthcoming book The Revenge of Gaia, on what he believes are the now irreversible effects of climate change (The Independent, London, 16 January)
“The Rubik’s cube is a puzzle you can always solve. I’m a physics major, and we get problems we can’t solve all the time. This is easy.”
Caltech student Leyan Lo, who solved a Rubik’s cube in 11.13 seconds, setting a new world record (The Mercury News, San Francisco, 15 January)
