The Scientist - 03.2020

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