“As academics involved in research on the uses and abuses of state power, it is becoming increasingly apparent that members of staff in universities and colleges are being drawn into a role of policing immigration.”

A group of UK academics are urging a boycott of new student immigration rules (Guardian letters, Guardian article).

“It’s staggering how much power is potentially available in space. And I say ‘potentially’ because a lot remains unknown about the cost and other details.”

Jonathan Marshall, spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric Co, discusses plans to put solar panels into orbit and ‘beam’ the power down to Earth (SF Chronicle).

“I’ve never seen a problem that wouldn’t be easier to solve with fewer people, or harder, and ultimately impossible, with more.”

UK wildlife broadcaster David Attenborough offers his support to the Optimum Population Trust, which wants fewer people on Earth (BBC).

“We didn’t pay 37 million zlotys ($11 million) for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant live there.”

Michal Grzes, a councillor in Poznan, Poland, says a new zoo addition is a waste of money, as ‘Ninio the gay elephant’ will not help the breeding programme (Reuters, Reuters video).