SPORTS MINDED: NFL players experienced 189 diagnosed concussions during the 2012 regular season. That’s more than 11 concussions each week.© THARRISON/ISTOCKPHOTO.COM
—Gregory Meyer, director of research in sports medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, in a New York Times Op-Ed about how bighorn sheep and woodpeckers avoid concussions (January 3)
—University of Chicago geneticist Janet Rowley, who died in December, on receiving a 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom
—Incoming National Institute of General Medical Sciences director Jon Lorsch, at an American Society for Cell Biology panel (December 16)
—Harvard University biologist George Church, after no one in an audience of 150 attending a seminar on personalized medicine raised his hand when Church asked if anyone had gotten his genome sequenced (December 13)
—Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, speaking at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society about how scientists can better interact with the public ...
