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Blogging has become an enjoyable everyday activity for me. However, it consumes a certain quantity of my creative energy that might be devot...

It's truly fantastic to hear that scientists have used a specimen of permafrost-preserved hair to sequence the genome of a male, known h...

In 1775, the celebrated French mathematician Laplace persuaded the Academy of Sciences in Paris to waste no more time and efforts in the e...

Sometimes, it's hard to decide whether certain bird stories are genuine. David Attenborough presents the amazing lyre bird, which mimic...

In today's issue of The Sydney Morning Herald , there's an article entitled Atheism's true believers gather [ display ] , writt...

I've just received my French voter's card, and I'm tremendously proud. It has my name and address inside, with a municipal stamp...

For those who like watching opening/closing ceremonies, I'm sure that last night's TV transmission from Vancouver was a huge source ...

Towards the end of last summer, I was happy to find ladybirds (known also as ladybugs or lady beetles) at several places near the house, sin...

A year ago, I wrote my first blog article on Darwin Day [ display ] . This National Photographic photo must be dedicated grudgingly to the...

This intellectual exercise won't take you more than a minute, and it should be fun. Click this illustration (signed by an artist named M...

The dictionary informs us that a spoilsport is somebody who mars the pleasure of others. Wretched individuals who behave this way are somet...

During the night, there was a heavy fall of snow at Gamone. As soon as the sun rose, in a misty sky, groups of small birds started to drop i...

Many people persist in believing wrongly that Twitter is strictly for the birds. Often, this merely means that they've misunderstood wh...

We Aussies never forget that the world is a stage, and that we are actors. No matter what our field, we have a knack of looking the part. It...

The title of the video is Parisian Love , and it suggests that Google can help a Superbowl spectator to find his French true love in Paris. ...

I thought I knew a thing or two about what goes on in the native land of my ex-wife Christine , but I've had occasions to discover that ...

A French fishing-trawler operator who snapped this early-morning trajectory on his mobile phone might have imagined that he had sighted a fa...

I grew up in the midst of four-wheel vehicles. (I was also immersed, from as far back as I can remember, in an exciting environment of vehic...

Many years ago, when I was visiting the MIT ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) in Boston for French TV, I recall meeting up with a yo...

Jean Sarkozy , the president's son, married his adolescent sweetheart, Jessica Sebaoun-Darty . The following photo shows the father and ...