The Scientist - USA (2020-05)

05.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 11

Speaking of Science

QUOTES

Our memory is a more perfect

world than the universe: it

gives back life to those who no

longer exist.

—Author Guy de Maupassant in his 1880

short story “Suicides”

This is going to be imprinted on

the personality of our nation for

a very long time.

—Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of

Allergy and Infectious Disease, speaking with CNN’s Sanjay

Gupta about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the

psyches of his daughters and other Americans (April 1)

BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON

DOWN

1. Physicist who wroteOpticks


2. Volcano of Ecuador


3. Unscientific belief


4. Maker of an aerosol


5. Good name for a 23andMe analyst?


6. All about bones


7. Type of anemone or beetle


8. Gastrointestinal tube (2 wds.)


9. Antenna or tentacle, at times


10. Head of a valley shaped like
    an amphitheater
    1 7. Ceremonial room for Pueblo people


11. A single time, without replication

Answer key on page 5

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8

9

10 11 12

13 14 15

16 17 18

19 20

Note: The

answer grid will include every

letter of the alphabet.

ACROSS

7. Attribute notable in elephants


8. Sub-Saharan vector of trypanosomes


9. Like the heart of a fish (hyph.)


10. Member of a civilization that revered
    coca


11. Butterfly named for King Ahab’s wife


12. Aquatic mammal’s forelimb


13. Nickname of an australopithecine
    female


14. Dominance hierarchy (2 wds.)


15. Where to find the sacrum and coccyx


16. One sort of xerophyte

JONNY HAWKINS