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October 2013's selection of notable quotes

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Samuel Rund, University of Notre Dame PhD candidate, discussing the results of a paper he recently published in Scientific Reports showing that mosquitoes smell human odors better at night (Aug. 29)

—Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson, opining in The New York Times about why 30-year-old Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander has avoided injury while pitching so many innings (Aug. 27)

Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, in a blog post on benefits and drawbacks of long-term antipsychotic medications (Aug. 28)

—Weill Cornell Medical College psychiatrist Richard Friedman, in a New York Times piece, “A Dry Pipeline for Psychiatric Drugs” (Aug. 19)

—Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, on how to improve science teaching in the United States
(The New York Times, Sept. 3)

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