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This year, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin . And it so happens that the world has just been introduced to ...

Science is a journal published by the AAAS [ American Association for the Advancement of Science ], founded in 1848, which describes itsel...

I've already evoked the brilliant books of the Canadian-American psychologist Steven Pinker . He's best tackled, I believe, by The L...

Her given name, Ardi , is short for Ardipithecus ramidus , which was a hominid species that lived about four and a half million years ago in...

I'm sure you won't believe me, but I'll nevertheless reveal, tardily, the truth. As an adolescent, about to start university stu...

It's tremendously encouraging to see that a popular vote in Ireland has confirmed the nation's desire to accept the Lisbon treaty an...

Back on 10 July 2009, I published an article entitled Winning or losing concerning Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France . [Click the pho...

There's a new Google gadget called sidewiki . To be able to use it, you need to equip your browser with the latest version of the Google...

It's marvelous to see that the Franco-Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit appears to be in perfect shape. He must now be liberated, absolutely...

Dostoevsky 's novel has nothing to do with the crime of an adult male's sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl, and the punishment...

We often tend to imagine that a technology such as the Internet simply arrives magically in our homes like water in the kitchen sink, or ele...

The 67-year-old Israeli pianist and orchestral conductor Daniel Barenboïm has always appeared to me as a brilliant star of hope in our trou...

During my week in Brittany, the focal point of my attention was my son's recently-acquired house on the cliff tops at Plouha. To a casua...

My short trip to Brittany is drawing to an end. Yesterday afternoon, we returned to the cliffs of Plouha to inspect the work being carried o...

I'm happy to see an Australian road cyclist achieving a major victory, and I'm tremendously pleased that the victor should be Cadel ...

In yesterday's blog, entitled Castle in Brittany [ display ] , I briefly presented the Roche-Jagu castle, on the banks of a tidal river...

Christine took me to a nearby castle named Roche-Jagu , high above the River Trieux on the edge of a vast wooded domain. This castle, which...

Christine 's dog Gamone (daughter of my Sophia ) is enraptured by this soft rubber ball… which once belonged to Natacha 's dog Jojo...

Christine lives at Gommenec'h. Yesterday morning, François drove me to a splendid little village, not far away from here, named St-Jac...

The weather at Gamone has been damp over the last week, preventing me from carrying on work in my future rose garden. So, I decided to leave...