Quotes of the day

“Zhang Yujun was executed for the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means, and Geng Jinping was put to death after being convicted of producing and selling toxic food, the Shijiazhuang Municipal Intermediate People’s Court said in a statement.”

Chinese state news reports that two people have been executed following the tainted milk scandal.

“When you have both exposures, there is a synergistic effect.”

Tanya Froehlich, of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, comments on her research showing that lead exposure and a mother’s smoking during pregnancy increase the risk of children having ADHD (Detroit Free Press).

“Our data suggest that people’s beliefs affect how light or dark they perceive someone to be.”

Eugene Caruso, of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, seems to have found that politically liberal people see President Obama’s skin tone as lighter than politically conservative people (NPR).

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