Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Saint Billy's Day

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If I have any Down Under Antipodes readers left (which is rather unlikely), they might be surprised to hear me say—unless they knew so alr...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

World’s most brilliant and efficient researchers and writers work for Wikipedia

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#WikiPriests This morning, I noticed news of the assassination yesterday of Jean-Louis Turquin, who had himself been considered by certain...

Talents sportifs hérités

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Dans la lignée Noah, il y a eu trois générations de grands sportifs, chacune dans une discipline différente. Zacharie, Yannick et Joaki...

Des amis Facebook ne sont pas forcément de vrais amis

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J'aurais pensé qu'on n'avait pas besoin de faire appel à la justice en France pour clarifier une telle question. Nous avons beau...

Some of my best friends used to be kids

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Even, in certain cases, bright kids. Now I don't know if it's the weather, or whatever... but I find it harder and harder to met up...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Moment of intense joy

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Since yesterday evening, my house has been invaded by a continuous mysterious piercing sound. I searched its causes everywhere, without s...

Human madness disgusts me

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7 janvier 2015 On that terrible day, the madness of a mob of dirty brain-washed buggers made an ugly inaugural appearance. The day wi...

Fillon invented the wheel, too

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Sliced bread, almost certainly.

Run, Turing, Run!

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Maybe Forrest Gump invented the principles of modern computing and artificial intelligence. ..
Friday, January 6, 2017

Does the British PM know the way out ?

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Theresa May is like a lady in a dark cinema who’s looking for the toilets. She knows they’re there, somewhere or other, and she needs to re...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Former French president intercepted by a police officer

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On 31 December 2016, at Saint-Tropez, the ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy ran into trouble with a local policeman. In a one-way street, th...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Trump pourrait être du vent

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Donald Trump dit tellement de conneries que l’on se demande si lui aussi ne serait pas une sorte de connerie permanente. Il a suggéré que l...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Disturbing days of depression for females

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The French journalist Audrey Vaugrente has published an interesting article, HERE , on the genetic origins of troubles associated with mens...

Titanic

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Apparently the good ship Titanic was severely damaged by a fire even before it was launched. And it was this fire damage, rather than an ic...

STX France to be purchased by the Italian company Fincantieri?

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The Saint-Nazaire shipyards are likely to be purchased by an Italian company, Fincantieri , whose headquarters are based in Trieste. The Fre...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Homme politique égomaniaque

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Un homme politique peut être tellement égomaniaque qu’il imagine automatiquement que tout ami est forcément, non seulement un grand admirate...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Future world of Genetic Inheritance

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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...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Pause-pipi long-courrier

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Les toilettes d’un avion reliant New York à Paris étaient bloquées, faisant en sorte que les passagers, eux aussi, étaient rapidement b...

Vol solaire

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L’appareil Solar Impulse 2 a achevé son tour du monde grâce uniquement à l’énergie solaire. Cette photo de l’avion au-dessus des pyram...

Planète Mars

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Cette photo de la surface de la planète Mars, aux contreforts du mont Sharp, a été prise par un robot nommé Curiosity, le 10 septembr...