“Public officials and civic leaders were inclined to look the other way so long as resurrectionists kept to what one anatomist in 1896 called the ‘prudent line of stealing only the bodies of the poor’.”

John Harley Warner, expert in the history of medicine at Yale University, has co-authored a book on photographs of historic dissections (Insider Higher Ed – slightly gruesome photographs at this link).

“As of now, half of Americans live in an area where they are at risk.”

Norman Edelman, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association, comments on a new report from his group detailing America’s most polluted cities (Forbes).

“My belief is that it’s an older woman or her estate, from the world war two generation which is much more comfortable being anonymous. Women of that generation had no automatic opportunity to go to college even if they came from a family with money, and the role of women in leadership positions was still new and exciting.”

Melissa Berman, of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers, speculates about the identity of a mystery donor behind donations to US universities worth $75 million (Guardian).