Antipodes

J’ai décidé de mentionner Monod comme j’aurais pu évoquer d’autres grands penseurs scientifiques depuis l’époque des découvertes de la physi...

Let me call it the GI-world . Humanity is leaving an era in which the letters “G.I.” generally evoked soldiers of the United States Army and...

Click here  to see a video about a DNA trial carried out this weekend in a French village,  Trélivan (Côtes-d'Armor), in the hope of id...

This afternoon, in Paris, two great scientists, the French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier and the American biochemist Jennifer Doudn...

France's higher house of parliament, the senate , adopted yesterday an amendment that prohibits the patenting of "products that are...

I've preferred to leave the verb "enhance" in inverted commas, because geneticists are frankly playing at behaving as a divini...

Over the last month or so, in the context of my work on a future book about Gamone, I’ve been investigating haphazardly and half-heartedly t...

It's hard to imagine that a quiet and well-behaved old-timer like me might evoke the possibility of his Viking ancestry. Besides, I can’...

A new kind of personal identity key has come into existence over the last few years. I refer to it as your Y-key , pronounced to rhyme with ...

For ages, it has been said that humans use only a small percentage of their cerebral potential. Personally, I've always been wary of thi...

Dogs, in the context of conventional religions, have often had a hard time. An antiquated version of Revelations , on the very last page of ...

At the start of a recent Dilbert strip, I was surprised, indeed intrigued, to find the Pointy-Haired Boss referring to the sophisticated p...

Having got rid of that lousy pun in my title (a silly way of trying to attenuate my great distress), I hasten to point out that I've tru...

In The Origin of Species , Charles Darwin wrote timidly: Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. As Richard Dawkins poi...

I've just been reading these two books, which tackle a fascinating subject: the genetic origins of the peoples of the British Isles. Wri...

In catastrophic dreams, at moments, the entire universe becomes unstuck, turned upside-down. Then, a moment later, everything is back in pla...

In former times, the hero of this tale would have been Tutankhamun himself, of course. These days, one has the impression that a more power...

This is the road a few kilometers up above Gamone. The cliff in the background has a name like a movie star: Tina Dalle . In fact, dalle is...