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03.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 11

JONNY HAWKINS


Speaking of Science


QUOTES

It is completely illogical to place
someone who has promoted
actions contrary to scientific
consensus in a position to
manage programs that are
essentially of scientific training.
—Evolutionary biologist Antonio Carlos Marques of
the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Biosciences
reacting to the news that Brazil has appointed Benedito
Guimarães Aguiar Neto, an electrical engineer who
previously served as the rector of a private religious
school and is believed to hold creationist views on
evolution, to head the country’s agency that oversees
graduate study programs (Science, January 26)

Neglected diseases like diarrheal
illnesses, tuberculosis, malaria,
and pneumonia kill thousands of
people every d ay. But because they
have been doing so for decades,
they simply don’t catalyze the
same urgency we see in the face of
a novel, fast-moving outbreak.
—Nick Chapman, CEO of Policy Cures Research, writing
in S TAT about the need to remained focused on a variety
of problematic diseases as the coronavirus epidemic
continues to make headlines (February 4)

BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON

DOWN


  1. Anxiolytic medications

  2. Human : scabies :: canine : ___

  3. Living among limbs

  4. What a chemist keeps in a cellar?

  5. Albino’s shortage

  6. Where a poet’s livestock may graze

  7. Changed from a fluid to a solid state

  8. Like the cells in a beehive

  9. 56-million-year period when conifers
    flourished

  10. Subterranean plant stem

  11. Insect in its adult stage

  12. Niels who said, “You’re not thinking;
    you’re just being logical.”

  13. Mummified discovery of 1922, for short


Answer key on page 5

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Note: The


answer grid will include every


letter of the alphabet.


ACROSS


  1. Relating to monkeys and apes

  2. Hardest part of being human?

  3. Summer Triangle star with Altair and
    Veg a

  4. Spiral cavity in the bony labyrinth

  5. Dendrochronology marker (2 wds.)

  6. Unit derived from the Latin for
    “twelfth”

  7. Notable March event (2 wds.)

  8. Organ of the integumentary system
    1 7. Like the gardens of Xochimilco

  9. Didactyl, as certain sloths (hyph.)

  10. Eggs and sperm of aquatic animals

  11. Testable scientific explanation

  12. Groupers in a group, say

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