“A guy named Arkhipov saved the world.”
Thomas Blanton, director of the US National Security Archive, on a Russian submarine officer who refused to open fire during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis (Washington Post, 13 October)
“We’ve gone beyond bottom-pinching, but the latest form of discrimination is institutionalised sexism.”
Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution, London, speaking on sexism in science (9 October)
“If you took out all the oil from your head, your hair would fall out. So if we’re taking all the oil out of the Earth, then what’s going to happen to it?”
British artist Tracey…
