Glaciologist Claude Lorius died on Tuesday March 21, 2023 at the age of 91, we learned from his publisher Arthaud. Inventor of the principle of the isotopic thermometer, Claude Lorius was one of the first whistleblowers to have highlighted the link between the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases and global warming. The glaciologist Claude Lorius … Read more
Probably written between 1946 and 1950, i.e. just before his Prix Goncourt in 1951 with Le côte des Syrtes; this short novel entitled “The House” and depicts a fascination for a house that he sees daily from the window of a bus crossing the countryside during the Occupation. The publisher Maël Guesdon specifies that this … Read more
A cultural object scrutinized by a free and assumed criticism. Today, Swarm, the new series from Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, available on Prime Video. The series is signed Donald Glover, to whom we owed the brilliant series Atlantawhich I wrote about here a few weeks ago – four seasons, very heterogeneous episodes in a … Read more
In a climate of tension and violence, Emmanuel Macron wishes to calm the disputes and engage in dialogue with the unions. But renouncing the pension reform is still not envisaged. Is it possible to appease without giving up? Elisabeth Borne today opens a sequence of consultations over three weeks with parliamentarians, political parties and social … Read more
He risked overshadowing Narendra Modi ahead of the national elections scheduled for 2024: Rahul Gandhi, the charismatic leader of the Congress Party has just been stripped of his seat as a deputy in the lower house of Parliament India, as a result of a court ruling last week. Sentenced to two years in prison for … Read more
On November 8, while the Ministry of National Education is deploying resources to upgrade vocational high schools, the Rectorate of Paris and the Ile de France Region make public their decision to close seven Parisian high schools at the start of the 2023 school year. three with a strong artistic focus: the Brassaï vocational high … Read more
For ten weeks now, Israelis have been protesting against the judicial reform of Binyamin Netanyahu’s government. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators regularly find themselves in the streets, a record in the history of the country which has only 10 million inhabitants. Returning to power in December 2022 thanks to a coalition with the far right … Read more
Soil depletion in France and around the world is an ecological disaster that is too often ignored. In its latest report the United Nations Convention estimates that 40% of the land on the planet is degraded and that if nothing is done by 2050, almost all of the soil on the Earth’s surface could be … Read more
Fire extinction. The operators of French train stations, metro stations and airports pledged on Monday, under the aegis of the State, to turn off illuminated advertisements by the end of the year when these places are closed to the public, in order to reduce this source of energy consumption. Energy sobriety obliges, a decree issued … Read more
“It’s nothing out of the ordinary. The United States has been doing this for decades. It’s been placing its tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of its allies for a long time… We’ve agreed to do the same thing.” Simple provocation or real risk of escalation? The words of the Russian president, this Saturday on … Read more
