“If this isn’t ‘the fleecing of America’ I don’t know what is.”
Representative Bart Gordon, a member of the US House Science Committee, seeking to remove chiefs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after it was revealed that NOAA’s weather forecasting programme was $7 billion over budget (Committee on Science Democratic Caucus press release, 15 May)
“Instead of studying signals from the Crab nebula, we may start to pick up light from real crabs and think these are coming from outer space. That would rather spoil things.”
Monty Priede of the University of Aberdeen, UK, on how bioluminescent…
