“You can’t drive a boat up to a narwhal – they would never let you. You need to sneak up on them.”
Kristin Laidre of the University of Washington, Seattle, on attaching electronic tags to narwhals and using them to monitor ocean temperatures in Baffin Bay as the whales dive down more than a mile below the surface (San Francisco Chronicle, 29 April)
“Denying it to people with chronic pain who really need it, out of concern that [some] will abuse it – that’s a terrible public-health decision.”
Russ Portenoy of Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, on growing concerns over…
