12 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.comQUOTESSpeaking of Science
It’s getting harder and
harder to make new ideas,
and the economy is more or
less compensating for that.
The only way we’ve been
able to roughly maintain
growth is to throw more
and more scientists at it.
—Stanford University and MIT economists, writing in
a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic
Research about a decades-long decline in innovation and
research productivity across several industries (October 23)
BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVONACROSS- Palm whose leaves are used to make
Panama hats - Perimeter of a lagoon, perhaps
- Present at birth
10.Carbon’s sextet - Liquid component of blood
- Brief message from an aviarist?
- Long-leggers often rendered in origami
16.“Dephlogisticated air,” to Joseph Priestley
19.Earthy pigment used in cave paintings - Behaviorist whose name rings a bell?
24.Wattled beast in the Chinese zodiac - Domestic pest or freshwater fish
26.Exemplar of extinction
2 7.Fleet and graceful runners
DOWN- With 17-Down, author of My Life
with the Chimpanzees (2 wds.) - Leg bone that’s Latin for “little pan”
- With 22-Down, author of Journey
to the Center of the Earth (2 wds.) - Aspen or cottonwood
- Get worn by time and weather
- Aquascaper’s venue (2 wds.)
- Outer layer of the cerebrum
- Not inherent, as characteristics
- Long-leggers, possibly snowy
1 7.See 1-Down - Flowering shrub whose name is
from the Greek for “coil”
20.What’s blue in a squid
22.See 3-Down - Some resistance to engineers
Answer key on page 5Note: The answer grid will include every letter of the alphabet.
© JONNY HAWKINSI’m just a lazy person. I do
what I want to do and that
wasn’t worth doing.
—Physicist Donna Strickland, of the University of Waterloo
in Ontario, Canada, speaking with The Star about why she
never applied to become a full professor. She finally did after
winning a Nobel Prize in Physics in October, and received
tenure later that month. (October 5)