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La crise des dettes souveraines
Edition La Découverte: “La crise de la finance globalisée a été lourde de conséquences pour les États des pays développés. Afin d’éviter un effondrement de l’activité, ils ont accepté, à la fin des...
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Weekly Round Up February 13 – 2013
“Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.” – Albert Einstein Science, General Knowledge & Environment We’re going to blow up your boiler: Critical bug threatens hospital...
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Weekly Round Up February 20 – 2013
“Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in...
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Weekly Round Up February 27 – 2013
“We will see how very important it is to bring about, in the human mind, the radical revolution. The crisis, is a crisis of consciousness. A crisis that cannot anymore, accept the old norms, the old...
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Ill Fares the Land
From Google Books: “As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America-the guarantee of security, stability, and fairness-is no longer...
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Weekly Round Up March 6 – 2013
“Stability is destabilizing.” - Hyman Minsky Science, General Knowledge & Environment Study of Ice Age Bolsters Carbon and Warming Link - “The tight relationship in past climate between...
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Weekly Round Up March 13 – 2013
“An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb Science, General Knowledge & Environment Tropical forests unexpectedly...
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Weekly Round Up March 20 – 2013
“It has been difficult for people to understand that, historically, skepticism has been mostly skepticism of expert knowledge rather than skepticism about abstract entities like God, and that all the...
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Taleb on Antifragility
Here are a few talks by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on his new book, Antifragile. Even though they seem to all sound and look the same, the non-intuitive idea of antifragility is discussed in a variety of...
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Weekly Round March 27 – 2013
“Take heed not to be transformed into a Caesar, not to be dipped in the purple dye, for it does happen. Keep yourself therefore, simple, good, pure, grave, unaffected, the friend of justice,...
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Weekly Round Up April 3rd – 2013
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give...
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Weekly Round Up April 10 – 2013
“Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they’re just repeating what others before them have done.” -...
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Weekly Round Up April 17 – 2013
“Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes — indeed, deletes — the role of wealth in the...
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Weekly Round Up April 24 – 2013
“We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the...
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Weekly Round Up May 8 – 2013
“The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.” – Alexis de Tocqueville Science, General Knowledge & Environment The Expendables – Hat tip Tecumseh – “Forget your...
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Weekly Round Up May 15 – 2013
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” – John Maynard Keynes Science, General Knowledge &...
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Audition sur le changement climatique de Jean-Marc Jancovici à l’Assemblée...
Dans cette audition, Jean-Marc Jancovici présente de façon convaincante, et parfois un peu brutale, les défis énergétiques auxquels le monde moderne fait face. Les sociétés et les économies des pays...
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Weekly Round Up May 22 – 2013
Following the advices of a friend (a big thanks to Marlène), we will now write a small summary of the articles provided every week in order to make it easier for everyone to read and understand how the...
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Weekly Round Up May 29 – 2013
“Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still...
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Weekly Round Up June 5th – 2013
“When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles...
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