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Stylistic devices, witty remarks or accidental turns of phrase, the delightful examples below all illustrate self-reference to varying degrees.
On July 18, 2019, writing about the Jean-Zay supercomputer installed at Idris (Orsay, Essonne), Libération wondered: "How do you calculate the cost of computing?" In a similar phonetic (and semantic) vein, on June 28, 2019, Science & Vie reported that "the calclacite is a mineral that forms in the oak drawers of mineral collectors". No. 1111 of the "Affaire de logique" column, which appeared in Le Monde this past September 11, examines 1111 and divisibility by 11. On August 12, the evening paper announced that "the robotics museum will be built by robots". Finally, in June 2019, Pour la Science ran the headline "The theory of evolution never stops evolving."
Local news stories are no exception: on July 10, France 3 lamented "a fire station near Vierzon […] completely destroyed by fire". A few weeks later, on August 12, Le Monde ran this headline about a tragedy in the Alpes-Maritimes: "Menton: police officer kills knife-wielding homeless man who was trying to take his own life."
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