Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Siobhan Dowd

Born: February 4, 1960
Died: August 21, 2007 (aged 47)
Bio: Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist. The last book she completed, Bog Child posthumously won the 2009 Carnegie Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best book for children or young adults published in the UK
Known for:
- The London Eye Mystery (2007)
- Bog Child
- A Swift Pure Cry (2006)
- Solace of the Road
- The Ransom of Dond