Boys are being outclassed by girls at both school and university, and the gap is widening The Economist The OECD deems literacy to be the most important skill that it assesses, since further learning depends on it. Sure enough, teenage boys are 50% more likely than girls to fail to achieve basic proficiency in any…
JPO. François , Le Monde DES RELIGIONS Mgr John Shelby Spong était présent à Paris au début du mois de juin pour la sortie de son livre, Jésus pour le XXIe siècle*. Un homme qui a donné sa vie à Dieu et à l’Église, mais qui remet constamment en question le fonctionnement de celle-ci. « L’apôtre…
Vanity Fair When 24-year-old Erika Langhart—talented, beautiful, bound for law school—died on Thanksgiving Day 2011, she became one of thousands of suspected victims of the birth-control device NuvaRing. Elite army athlete Megan Henry, who survived rampant blood clots in her 20s, is another. With major suits against NuvaRing’s manufacturer, Merck, headed for trial, Marie Brenner…
By Natalie Thomas,The Atlantic In a political party with over 80 million members, there are bound to be a few bad eggs. The article describes a system viewed on the one hand as “the sharpest weapon for fighting corruption” and as a “fatal black hole” on the other. It describes how this veiled system carries…
L’ascension rapide de l’application chinoise de streaming vidéo TikTok a alarmé les législateurs et les organismes de protection de la vie privée du monde entier. De quoi s’inquiètent-ils ? Deutsche Welle (en anglais).
