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—Juvenal, late 1st-century Roman poet
—Heidi Tissenbaum, University of Massachusetts Medical School biologist who recently published a PNAS study reporting that all long-lived C. elegans mutants studied by aging researchers spent a higher percentage of their extended life span in frail, rather than healthy, states (January 26)
—Johns Hopkins University biologists, Cristian Tomasetti and Bert Vogelstein, writing in their recently published Science paper, in which they claim that two-thirds of the variation in cancer risk among people can be chalked up to chance (January 2)
—Timothy O’Brien, sociologist at the University of Evansville and the lead author of a February American Sociological Review study, which found that roughly one in five Americans are deeply religious, know a lot about science, and support many practical uses ...
