The Great Reunion: a first in the history of the University of Montreal The Université de Montréal has traveled through the centuries, witnessed a multitude of back-to-school and graduation ceremonies, and this year, for the first time in its history, is organizing a Grand Reunion! You can expect some great moments as well as a … Read more
Dialogue Improbable is a four-hand book written by two West Indians. One is a Béké, Emmanuel de Reynal, and the second, Steve Fola Gadet, a longtime Martinique-based Guadeloupean sociologist and writer. They don’t share the same perspective on many issues, but they show their respective communities that dialogue is possible. Louis Otvas • Posted May … Read more
The formation of a historic alliance by the French left and their goal of gaining a majority in the National Assembly are making the general elections once again central. But can we really speak of renewed interest in Parliament in France? The regular erosion of electoral mobilization since the beginning of the Fifth Republic, falling … Read more
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, sparked on February 24, appears to be continuing despite pressure and sanctions imposed by Western countries. In early May, the United Nations estimated that out of a population of 43 million, nearly 6 million Ukrainians had found refuge outside their country and that 8 million had relocated within the borders. Adding … Read more
In their report to the government in 2020, the members of the Citizen’s Climate Convention were not wrong. Among their suggestions as evidence: “Amending the Code of Education for a generalization of environmental education and education for sustainable development (EEDD) in the French school model. Our enlightened citizens, like all those who have studied it … Read more
Presented as “the best ergonomic office chair in its price range”, the result of a decade of research and development, the airCentric 3 impresses above all with its almost infinite configuration possibilities. At the risk of astounding the user, who probably doesn’t want that much, at a still steep price. Posted at 11:00 am Karim … Read more
Shen spring has been marked by a veritable series of flowers over the last few weeks, our May selection takes us to fantastic countries. We must believe that the return of stranger things inspired Netflix competitors! Science fiction is undoubtedly the dominant genre this month, with a mythical monster reminiscent of the Loch Ness creature … Read more
Between a third and half of the population of sub-Saharan Africa speaks a Bantu language. For a long time it was believed that this linguistic success corresponded to the fascination with Latin in the past – and with English today. Genetic studies show that it is indeed a historically unmeasured migration that has caused the … Read more
2020 was a good year. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique. Andrea Ghez, the physicist, jointly with Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel, for the discovery of a supermassive, compact object at the center of our galaxy, and Louise Glück, the literary scholar, for … Read more
No sooner had he offered himself a trip to space last July than Jeff Bezos saw much further: ending our sad status as mortals. The Amazon founder has indeed joined the cohort of investors, including Yuri Milner, one of the early shareholders of Facebook and Airbnb, who have pledged $3 billion on Alto Labs. The … Read more