“It has been an embarrassment to science, and I think an embarrassment for Princeton.”
Robert Park, a physicist at the University of Maryland, on the closure of Princeton University’s Engineering Anomalies Research programme, which for 28 years has tried to demonstrate that human thoughts can affect machine behaviour (The New York Times, 10 February)
“If you can take a midday nap, do so.”
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Dimitrios Trichopoulos of the Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of a study in Greece showing that the death rate in people who take siestas is two-thirds that of people who don’t (The Seattle Times, 12 February)
“You can buy model breasts, but they cost around £35 each, which is quite prohibitive.”
Midwife Kate McFadden on why she and others are knitting fake breasts for the Liverpool Women’s Hospital, UK, to teach women how to breastfeed and express milk (BBC online, 7 February)
“Maybe it is eternal hatred that had them locked together in a death grip.”
An internet commentator not affected by the Valentine mood speculates on the reasons why the 5000-year-old human skeletons found at a construction site near Mantua, northern Italy, were embracing (Reuters, 13 February)
“This is the first time anyone has demonstrated that a change in women’s hormonal levels is induced by sniffing an identified compound of male sweat.”
Claire Wyart of the University of California, Berkeley, on a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience offering the first direct evidence that human scent can affect the sexual arousal of the opposite sex (AP, 13 February)
