“This cancer drug approval for dogs is an important step forward for veterinary medicine.”

Bernadette Dunham, director of FDA’s center for veterinary medicine, comments on the approval of the first drug specifically made for treating canine cancer (AP).

“You cannot blame fat people for global warming – that is just victimisation – but there is a problem with food policy that has encouraged over-consumption and is spoiling the environment.”

Tim Lobstein, director of policy at the International Association for the Study of Obesity, responds to claims by UK government advisor Jonathan Porritt that “fat is a climate change issue” (Daily Telegraph).

“We would really prefer to do it in space or on Mars but living in the time that we do, this was the closest we could get to zero gravity.”

Noah Fulmore comments on his forthcoming zero gravity wedding on a ‘Vomit Comet’ (New York Daily News).