The Scientist - USA (2019-12)

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Speaking of Science

QUOTES

This study opens the door to

extraordinary new means of

human collaboration while, at

the same time, blurring

fundamental notions about

individual identity and

autonomy in disconcerting ways.

—Robert Martone, a neuroscientist at biotech company

Biogen, writing in Scientific American about a recently

published study, in which he was not involved, that

reported making noninvasive connections among

three human brains, resulting in direct brain-to-brain

communication (October 29)

Researchers need community

because good ideas don’t just

come from reading literature

and thinking deep thoughts;

it’s helpful to bounce ideas

off others, particularly in a

nonthreatening environment.

—Vivienne Ta m, a McGill University PhD student who is

currently working at the University of Strasbourg in France,

writing in Science about the importance of scientists taking

coffee breaks (October 31)

BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON

DOWN

1. Venture for students of wildlife


2. Operating as an android


3. Marine secreter of calcium carbonate


4. Marsupial endemic to the Americas


5. Word after hard, sex, or Zip


6. Four-sided feature of 1-Across


7. Anxiety-reducing drug sold as
   Ativan


8. What Chicxulub made many
   species


9. Adjective attached to aspens


10. Kin to the polecat and mink


11. Makeup of a pod


12. Gray tree frog’s color, at times


13. Flower named for the shape of its
    cluster

Answer key on page 5

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Note: The

answer grid will include every

letter of the alphabet.

ACROSS

1. Pinaceae member suitable for
   Yule decor


2. Where Ammon, Moab, and Edom
   once thrived


3. Indigestible but useful carbohydrate


4. Resembling a major felid


5. Reptilian striker, for short


6. Sense apparently lacking in dolphins


7. Ubiquinone by another name (2 wds.)
   1 7. Jumping spiders’ typical eye allotment


8. Small, yellowish, pestilent type of ant


9. Skeletal part in front, not back


10. Warble, as from a skylark


11. Crescent-shaped tool or bone


12. Small prominence at the opening of
    the outer ear