Unfortunately, dithyrambic film reviews, an impressive script and great actors are not always enough to ensure the success of certain works that are painfully and unfairly punished at the box office. The proof of five. There are shattered fates of films that hurt; very bad even. Even more so when the works are widely favored … Read more
Researchers used the Clisson Metal Festival that just ended to conduct a study at the heart of pogos to better prevent deadly bumps. With a combination of sensors and an orange beanie, strange festival-goers mingled with the dancing hordes of Hellfest: These scientists are conducting an unprecedented study of mass movement to better prevent accidents … Read more
Alone in the sand, looking at the water, you dream… and wonder. Why is the water in your bottle transparent while the sea stretching out in front of you is blue? And why does a diver sink into the depths, gradually being surrounded by an increasingly dense blue, then by darkness? To answer, we often … Read more
It’s a brand new approach to combating beach erosion that a French inventor is developing across France. Witnessing the inefficiency of hard defensive structures – including breakwaters or rocky groynes, some protecting a beach from the force of the waves, others limiting currents and sediment flows – Dominique Michon developed the S-ABLE device. Twenty years … Read more
Annual scientific journal Nature publishes its indicator on the geopolitics of science. The year 2022 can make Joe Biden sweat. It shows that China’s strategic quest to achieve parity with the United States is at the end of its spectacular scientific research efforts. The index of Nature is based on measuring scientific publications in 82 … Read more
Published on : 02/07/2022 – 08:06Changed : 02/07/2022 – 08:04 Copenhagen (AFP) – Second day and first pitfall of the Tour de France: the double bridge of the Great Belt on Saturday and its 18 kilometers over the sea promise a day full of excitement in the peloton, also for Tadej Pogacar, already caught by … Read more
Are you the type to see the glass half full or half empty? Are you one of those people who always see life positively? Then you may have heard that, in addition to these non-negligible daily benefits, this optimism could also be good for your health. A number of studies have actually shown that optimists … Read more
Among the great Quebecers, not only René Lévesque (1922-1987) would have turned 100 this year. So too, and I may come back to this, of the political scientist Léon Dion (1922-1997), who at the end of his career described himself as a “tired federalist”, is convinced that one cannot negotiate with English Canada just by … Read more
From wild wolves to domesticating dogs Dogs are the first animals domesticated by man. According to experts, this domestication would have occurred 15,000 to 30,000 years ago, well before other animal species that were after the advent of agriculture. Also read: How did the cat take over the world and domesticate us? The origin of … Read more
In a column published in Figaro Vox on Monday June 27, Vincent Le Biez, high civil servant and polytechnic, sharply criticizes the promotion of newly qualified engineers. After students from AgroParisTech and then from HEC, it is now students from Polytechnique who are expressing their dismay during their graduation ceremony. I’m one of those students. … Read more