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Laurence Tubiana : « Parler de canicules et d’incendies exceptionnels, c’est une manière tragique de se rassurer »

Elle a négocié l’Accord de Paris en 2015, copiloté la Convention citoyenne pour le climat. L’universitaire et diplomate Laurence Tubiana, directrice de la Fondation européenne pour le climat, espère que les incendies monstres et canicules de l’été 2026 hâteront la prise de conscience et influeront sur la présidentielle.

currentaffairs.org

The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record.

Holding my dad’s hand: a photographic essay | The Observer

Cultural taboos about men holding hands mean fathers and sons rarely do so as adults. But when Valery Poshtarov set out to  take portraits of this connection the results were both touching and telling

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Des firmes d'IA achètent, numérisent puis détruisent des livres anciens

Des palettes de vieux livres venant de librairies du monde entier sont expédiées vers les Etats-Unis. Des entreprises spécialisées en IA seraient à l'origine de cet accaparement massif de patrimoine. Elles utiliseraient ces livres comme données brutes pour entraîner leurs modèles de langage, puis les jetteraient après leur numérisation.

Quanta Magazine

Why Am I Left-Handed? | Quanta Magazine

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.

Avec 70 euros par habitant, la France est l'un des pays d'Europe qui finance le moins le rail (à des années-lumière des 209 euros britanniques ou 222 euros allemands)

Selon l'association allemande "Alliance pour le rail", les investissements publics français sont très loin des dépenses de nos voisins même si la France se distingue par un mode de financement particulier qui s'appuie sur les bénéfices de la SNCF.

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Pleated Jeans

42 Funny Single-Panel Comics From New Yorker Cartoonist Brendan Loper

Great jokes. Great animation style.

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The Post-American Internet

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Bruce MacKinnon: Trump's totally having talks with 'more reasonable' leaders in Iran | PNI Atlantic News

The Conversation

Moving abroad in your 20s can leave you with two identities – here’s how to cope

Migration is not merely about moving, but about living two lives.

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Les bals clandestins | Faire vivre et faire connaître l'histoire du Finistère

Fact Check: Clarifying claims that new ICE agents receive 6-figure salaries, far exceeding pay for teachers

In July 2025, the Trump administration offered a $50,000 sign-on bonus and a salary around $100,000 for returning ICE officers.

Le pourquoi de la cécité européenne face à la Chine

ANALYSE. Les journalistes du « Monde » entament une série d’articles sur le « piège chinois » dans lequel l’industrie européenne s’est enfoncée en croyant accéder à un eldorado. Le premier de ces articles se demande pourquoi, ou comment, les Européens n’ont pas vu venir le piège. J’y ajoute un témoignage.

Boing Boing

The doctor who proved handwashing saves lives was locked in an asylum for it

Semmelweis cut Vienna's maternity death rate from 18% to 2% in 1847. Doctors had him committed. He died before germ theory proved him right.

AAAS

Science | AAAS

Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité

[Lettre ouverte du CS] Présenter l’écologie scientifique comme une opinion est dangereux pour la démocratie - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité

À plusieurs reprises, notamment les 24 février et 26 mars, des personnalités (membres de la commission ou audités) ont adopté une attitude outrageusement sceptique vis-à-vis de l’information scientifique et technique, ce qui interroge, en particulier dans le domaine de l’écologie scientifique. Les propos tenus remettent en cause des résultats scientifiques établis collégialement en matière de […]

ARRESTED IN JAPAN INSIDE A JAPANESE DETENTION FACILITY — SUNDAiCiTY

This is what happens when you get arrested in Japan and where you're sent off to will leave you speechless.

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI

Ten theses for folks who haven't noticed the ground shifting under their feet

For Decades, National Geographic's Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It

We asked a preeminent historian to investigate our coverage of people of color in the U.S. and abroad. Here’s what he found.

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Fields Medal Winner Jacob Tsimerman Joins OpenAI, Says AI Will Soon Do Everything Mathematicians Do "Better And Faster"

Even as more and more people are publishing proofs of decade-old conjectures using AI, this year’s Fields medalist — the highest prize in...

arXiv.org

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation that the LLM will faithfully execute the task without introducing errors into documents. We introduce DELEGATE-52 to study the readiness of AI systems in delegated workflows. DELEGATE-52 simulates long delegated workflows that require in-depth document editing across 52 professional domains, such as

The GAFAM Empire

GAFAM Empire is a project in which we look at all the known acquisitions conducted by five big tech companies: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, from the moment they made their first one to the end of summer of 2022, when we stopped collecting data.

The atlas of the Chernobyl disaster

The first attempt to mapping the impact of the explosion.

BBC News Afrique

Mathématiques : Qu'est-ce qui fait de Terence Tao « le meilleur mathématicien vivant au monde » ? - BBC News Afrique

Il est entré au lycée à l'âge de sept ans ; à 21 ans, il était déjà titulaire d'un doctorat et est ensuite devenu professeur titulaire à l'Université de Californie.

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War Isn’t Working for American Workers

While Pentagon budgets have steadily increased in recent years, the arms industry has become more consolidated, more automated, and less labor-intensive. The warfare state is not an effective economic development strategy for working people.

AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic?

Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings carry their own risks.

He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?

Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.

Can you build a British voter?

See how the electorate is changing

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The Paris Review

The Ignorant Art Historian: View of Notre Dame by Hal Foster

April 28, 2026 – “All this is hard to sort out, and two more pieces on the right—a green blob beside a black one—only add to the puzzle.”

In France, American Universities Lose Their Allure in the Trump Era

Worries about visas, academic freedom and safety are making foreign schools, like Sciences Po in Paris, more attractive to some students than the Ivy League.