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July 2013's selection of notable quotes


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SMELL A RAT? One blogger did, and published a zoomed-in view (inset) of this image from NASA’s Curiosity rover to “prove” it.WWW.NASA.GOV

Scott Waring, writing on his UFO Sightings Daily blog about a photo snapped by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover that went viral in May because some claimed that it showed a rodent on the Red Planet

—University of Hawaii at Manoa researcher Rich Gazan, in a report he recently published on the public perception of the field of astrobiology through the lens of Stephen Hawking (June 3)

—Justice Anthony Kennedy, author of the majority opinion in the recent
Supreme Court ruling that upholds the police practice of collecting DNA
evidence from suspects at the time of their arrest (June 3)

—Justice Elena Kagan, opining during oral argument in the Maryland v. King case about whether police should be permitted under the Fourth Amendment to collect DNA ...

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