The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
American Memory (The Library of Congress)
By Juliana Liu, Hong Kong correspondent BBC News This week about 10,000 dogs and a number of cats were killed at an annual dog-meat festival in south-western China, to celebrate the longest day of the year. For the BBC’s Juliana Liu it was a reminder of one of the most traumatic days of her childhood,…
The ‘monarchs of money’ and the war on savers (Partie 1: 20.46) (Louis Deguise / CBC) The world’s central banks have printed unimaginable amounts of money in recent years. Neil Macdonald explores what this means for the global economy and for your financial well-being. Quietly, without much public fuss or discussion, a new ruling class…
Peer review is slow. It’s unhelpful. It’s generally awful. Here’s how to fix it. By Rebecca Schuman, Slate (…) Think of your meanest high school mean girl at her most gleefully, underminingly vicious. Now give her a doctorate in your discipline, and a modicum of power over your future. That’s peer review.
Peut-on se dire Occidental et fier de l’être? Antoine Robitaille, Le Devoir
“Aujourd’hui, c’est l’atelier de théâtre sans parole. Ça tombe bien : les participants ont tous des problèmes de parole, ils sont tous (sauf Chantal, j’y reviendrai) aphasiques, la plupart après un AVC qui a endommagé le côté gauche de leur cerveau.” Patrick Lagacé, La Presse.