Tuesday, March 8, 2016

When my dog leaves home for an hour or so, I never know what kind of a life he's leading

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Up until a year ago, the favorite destination of my dog  Fitzroy  was a farm-house over in Chatelus, on the other side of the Bourne: the re...

Road-racing champion

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Click the YouTube icon As a child in South Grafton, I was often terrified by wild magpies that would attack me when I was riding my b...

World Drone Prix, Dubai

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This fabulous racing track has been designed in Dubai for the World Drone Prix :

International Women's Day

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Suffragette being arrested in London
Monday, March 7, 2016

French women who make things change

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Click   here   to discover 9 French women who make things change.

Drone killers

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No sooner had I seen the arrival in society of small drones, than I made an elementary prediction: In the near future, a lot of so-called ...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Discovery of a ghostlike deep-sea octopod

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This charming little beast was discovered in the Pacific, near Hawaii. Click the YouTube icon Within a few days, the creature became ...

Hard disks were born in 1956

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Hard disks were created for the first time by IBM in 1956, half a century ago, at about the same time that I started to learn computer progr...
Friday, March 4, 2016

What made the patriarch so batshit mad?

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This old fellow—the Extreme Right-wing founder Jean-Marie Le Pen —looks as if he’s about to burst a valve in his backside: What kind...

Local weather report: makes me shiver

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Here at Gamone, winter weather reports are often alarming. And the press photos accompanying such reports often make things worse. I...

Alone in an old lighthouse at the tip of Brittany

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Marc Pointud  isn't getting paid to look after the ancient lighthouse of Tévennec  for two months, nor was he washed up here after a shi...

Video on Van Gogh

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This trailer introduces a pleasant video called Loving Vincent : Click here to visit the movie's website.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Planning for a major flood in Paris

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During the two decades of my life in Paris, I can recall no alarming case of flooding of any kind. But many people believe that a gigantic f...

So hot in Australia that a koala used a bicycle to get a drink

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Yesterday in the Adelaide Hills, a thirsty koala climbed to the top of a bicycle wheel to get a drink from a cyclist's water bottle. ...

Naked weather report

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

How many French fighter jets does it take to shoot down a Belgian drone?

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Yesterday afternoon, the French air force was lucky. The cost of their defense plan was minimal. It took no more than a single Rafale jet to...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Leap year

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Click here to see today's Google doodle, presenting a bunny leaping into the final day of February 2016.
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Come on ladies, let's knock him out!

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There’s a delightful story in yesterday’s newspapers about a criminal who couldn’t prevent his holdup in a boutique in Rennes (Brittany) ...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Best beaches in the world

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Click here to access a lengthy and well-illustrated article in Britain"s Guardian newspaper on the top 50 beaches in the world. The l...

French president visits the agricultural show

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Click here to see a one-minute video of the rowdy visit of president  François Hollande to France's annual agricultural show in Paris....