“The debt of gratitude he is owed makes it all the more horrifying, therefore, that he was treated so inhumanely. … [W]e’re sorry, you deserved so much better.”

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologises for the mistreatment of mathematician Alan Turing, who was prosectuted for being gay after his work helped break the German Enigma codes in WWII.

“I’m anxious to try green. You get a little bored with blue.”

Paul Karason, who turned blue due to consumption of silver, is seeing the lighter side of his condition (Today).

“The 38-year-old Perth man, who has a weakened immune system, initially responded to the drug but developed a resistant strain of the virus when his illness relapsed.”

The Western Australia Department of Health confirms tamiflu resistant H1N1 has reached the country (Reuters).

“The brains would be ‘freaky observers’, they’d perceive a universe much more chaotic and difficult to define than ours.”

Writer Jim Kakalios has decided to make villains for his comic book out of nothing more than theoretical physics (Bad Astronomy).