“The evidence was complete and the death sentence was appropriate.”
A Chinese court justifies the execution of Zheng Xiaoyu, ex-director of the state food and drug administration, found guilty of taking bribes to authorise sub-standard medicines that led to several deaths (Xinhua news agency, 10 July)
“[It] would pretty much slay any curator or librarian to have such a large error bar, but astronomy often has high numbers: 100,000 is OK.”
Alison Doane, curator of the collection of glass photographic plates at Harvard College Observatory that contain 100 years’ worth of images of the sky, on how the…
