14 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.comQUOTESSpeaking of Science
We know this is a brain
disease. Any idea that this is
just willpower and you ought
to be able to get over it is
completely contrary to what
we know on the basis of [the]
strongest medical evidence.
—National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins,
speaking with the USA Today editorial board about
the agency’s plan to research treatments for opioid
addiction (October 3)BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVONACROSS- Nostril in the top of 1-Down’s head
- Parsley, sage, rosemary, or thyme
- Opposite of general,
to anesthesiologists - Red plant stalk, or donnybrook
- Anatomical source of ill humor?
- Douglas Hofstadter’s ___,
Escher, Bach - Exam on which a normal score
is about 100 (2 wds.) - Falcon, or sorcerer of legend
- “Bear” that’s actually a marsupial
- Casabas, e.g.
- A vein in the neck
- Exhibiting foliage
- Neighbor of the radius
2 7. Larynx, colloquially (2 wds.)
DOWN- Male whale
- Back of the head or skull
- Double’s antithesis
- Konrad who pioneered ethology
- Antelope with spirally twisted horns
- Songbird classified as Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Australian parakeet, affectionately
- Rainforest mammal with
a prehensile tail - Resisting chemical change
1 7. Greek script deciphered by Michael
Ventris (2 wds.) - Subject of a sonogram
- Roughly 1 percent of the earth’s
atmosphere - State flower of New Hampshire
- Wildcat with tufted ears
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answer grid will include every
letter of the alphabet.
JOE DATOR, CARTOON BANKYo u can think of gender as
a variable and if you leave
it out, you potentially miss
something important in
scientific research with
human outcomes.
—Stanford University historian Londa Schiebinger,
who with collaborators recently published a study in
Nature Human Behavior that proposed ways in which
institutions can encourage diversity in terms of both
gender and new research directions (October 4)