Fastcodesign.com In business, finding a polite way to break off a conversation is as tricky as it is critical. Time is money, so you don’t want to chit-chat with a client or a colleague longer than necessary, but respect buys time, so you don’t want to betray any annoyance or impatience. Short of the classic…
As a former trainer reveals, the U.S. government deployed nonhuman operatives—ravens, pigeons, even cats—to spy on cold war adversaries. Dans le Smithsonian
Un article du Smithsonian Everyone always says you should wash behind your ears. But what about inside your ears? You should pretty much never clean those, and trying sends more people to the hospital every year with cotton swab–induced injuries than show up with wounds from razor blades, according to Real Clear Science. Here’s the basic problem:…
The Internet Archive bills itself as “universal access to all knowledge,” and lives up to this promise by hosting dozens of thematic collections. This collection, covering Cultural & Academic Films, includes materials from the Academic Film Archive and the Media Burn Independent Film Archive, as well as documentaries by noted filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman. Also, the…
Résumé en français de l’essai The Social Edge of Intelligence de The Ideas Letter (16 avril 2026), par Bright Simons. La thèse de Bright Simons tient en deux phrases : l’IA ne pense pas, elle se souvient de la façon dont nous avons pensé ensemble. Et nous sommes en train de cesser de lui donner…
Le CRID 14-18 (Collectif de recherche international et de débat sur la guerre de 1914-1918) est une association de chercheurs qui met en ligne les textes et publications de ses membres et des outils pédagogiques.