Things You Learn From the World Service

The deputy mayor of New Dehli died after an attack by monkeys.

If you're a devotee of monkey news, as I am, you'll note that this report follows on one from a few years ago in which a supposed half-man, half-monkey was stalking the city.

Aside from the monkey-on-man murder, what's particularly disconcerting is that New Dehli is trying to train larger, fiercer monkeys to combat the smaller macaques. Has no one in India ever seen a science fiction movie? That's a recipe for disaster -- just ask the guy who had the idea to mate the aggressive but industrious bees with the docile but lazy (though certainly stylish) Italian bee.

What if these larger, fiercer monkeys team up with the Rhesus macaques, travel to Cambridge, MA, and wrest control of the telepathic robot-arm technology? Before we know it, this happens.