Quote of the day
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
Fang Lizhi
Born: February 12, 1936
Died: April 6, 2012 (aged 76)
Bio: Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986 87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.