“I have a very big problem giving more taxpayer money to an organization with this history.”

Biofuels engineer and blogger Robert Rapier comments on the much-hyped Range Fuels. The cellulosic biofuels company, based in Broomfield, Colorado, has been heavily backed by both government and venture capital finance.

“We don’t know how much is consumed by living organisms; we don’t have enough data.”

Nikolai Maximenko from University of Hawaii, comments on the uncertainties around the plastic debris accumulating in the Atlantic, a mirror of the famous Great Pacific Garbage Patch (BBC).

“If we take the type of building and the finds and examine them in the light of what we know from the Bible, it certainly goes together well. … It’s not wise to relate to archaeology without the biblical text.”

Eilat Mazar, director of an archaeological dig in Jerusalem, comments on the discovery of a large wall and other structures (Haaretz).