As Americans turn angrily on Barack Obama over his handling of the oilspill (see grow up and pointing the finger) both the New Yorker and The Economist invoke the figure of King Canute. The New Yorker's Bob Madoff has a cartoon of a king on his throne at the beach with oil lapping round his feet.
The Economist has a leader that reminds readers (at last) that the 11th century Danish King was proving to his courtiers that he was not omnipotent.
Bugging devices: the astounding ways insects are talking and listening all
around us
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From spiders tuning their silken listening tools, to the beetle’s heady
perfume, hundreds of conversations are happening in languages we don’t
understand...
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