On Presidents and Science

I'm not the first by far to point this out, but I'm so happy that Barack Obama has been elected that I had to do something to mark the occasion. In fact I was totally oblivious to this imagistic event until Jessica excitedly picked up the magazine from my desk and proclaimed: "You have it!" Below are the front and back cover images from the September 25th issue of Nature magazine. It's not clear if this move was in any way intentional on the publisher's part, but it's pretty hilarious.

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