SWAMPED: Cars piled on top of each other at the entrance to a garage in Lower Manhattan the day after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City and surrounding areas© STAN HONDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
—New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an entry posted on his website in the wake of Hurricane Sandy (Nov. 1, 2012)
—Johns Hopkins researcher Stephen Baylin, describing how Hurricane Sandy affected the university’s Cancer Center. (“An Epi Phenomenon,” The Scientist, Dec. 2012)
—Marian Stamp Dawkins, Oxford University animal behaviorist and author of Why Animals Matter, on the importance of using scientific evidence when legislating animal welfare policies (Edge, Oct. 31, 2012)
—Matt Hourihan, R&D and policy program director,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, on the outlook for federal science funding following the US Presidential election (LiveScience, Nov. 8, 2012)
—North Carolina State University biologist Rob Dunn, discussing the evolutionary legacy of our ancestors’ fight-or-flight response (Slate, Oct. 15, ...
