politique
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Les limites de TED
But: We live in a world of increasingly networked knowledge. And it’s a world that allows us to appreciate what has always been true: that new ideas are never sprung, fully formed, from the heads of the inventors who articulate them, but are always — always — the result of discourse and interaction and, in…
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Fillon veut moderniser certaines traditions religieuses (mais pas toutes)
Les religions devraient réfléchir au maintien de traditions qui n’ont plus grand-chose à voir avec les connaissances de la science. » L’interview: François Fillon, Europe 1. (9″40 à peu près). Content de voir le Premier ministre conseiller aux catholiques de reconsidérer leurs positions archaïques sur l’ouverture du mariage aux couples de même sexe. Ah non,…
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Le rôle de la colonisation en Afrique dans l’épidémie de sida
For decades nobody knew the reasons behind the birth of the AIDS epidemic. But it is now clear that the epidemic’s birth and crucial early growth happened during Africa’s colonial era, amid massive intrusion of new people and technology into a land where ancient ways still prevailed. European powers engaged in a feverish race for…
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Les 5 plus grosses armées privées du monde
With more than 625,000 employees, this listed security giant is the second-largest private employer in the world (behind Wal-Mart). While some of its business is focused on routine bank, prison and airport security, G4S also plays an important role in crisis-zones right around the world. » A Look At The World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Armies,…
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Avortement après naissance
Alberto Giubilini, from Monash University, and Francesca Minerva, from the University of Melbourne, say a foetus and a newborn are equivalent in their lack of a sense of their own life and aspiration. They contend this justifies what they call »after-birth abortion » as long as it is painless, because the baby is not harmed by…
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Les nouveaux standards journalistiques de NPR
It now commits itself to avoiding the worst excesses of he said, she said journalism. It says to itself that a report characterized by false balance is a false report. It introduces a new and potentially powerful concept of fairness: being fair to the truth. My verdict: Bravo, NPR. Within the world of pressthink there…
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La bande de jeunes, épouvantail sécuritaire
Depuis 2002 ce qui frappe le plus, c’est le statut d’épouvantail sécuritaire des bandes de jeunes. Toutes les lois touchant la délinquance se justifient d’une manière ou d’une autre par le recours à la figure des bandes en instrumentalisant méthodiquement des faits divers. Lors de la dernière législature, la « bande » a tour à…
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La loi Moustache
On President’s Day 2012, The American Mustache Institute introduced the Million Mustache March in support of the Stimulus To Allow Critical Hair Expenses, or the STACHE Act. If adopted by Congress, the STACHE Act would provide up to a $250.00 annual tax refund for Mustached Americans. (…) For every Million Mustache March participant, America’s leading…
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La dernière chance des Républicains
On the other hand, if they lose their bid to unseat Obama, they will have mortgaged their future for nothing at all. And over the last several months, it has appeared increasingly likely that the party’s great all-or-nothing bet may land, ultimately, on nothing. In which case, the Republicans will have turned an unfavorable outlook…
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A rarity
For his new book, The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys Are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality, McCormack spent the year observing social interactions and collecting data from three high schools in the U.K. Over and over again, he saw the same surprising scene: young straight men being physically affectionate and emotionally expressive with one…