« Barbie, the creation of Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler, who named the fashion doll after her daughter Barbara, continues to be one of the world’s most popular toys 60 years after first going on sale. » Sur Graphic News À voir aussi : Vidéo : La poupée Barbie a 60 ans (sur MSN.ca)
Les « Trigger warnings » la dernière menace à la liberté académique. (Geof Smith, Globe and Mail) …. Le blog Nouvel Observateur/Rue 89 en remet une couche Etats-Unis : attention, étudiants fragiles ! Par Hélène Crié-Wiesner Dessin de Michel Kichka (Israël) Les campus américains sont atteints de fièvre anxieuse aiguë : des jeunes y réclament que les profs…
«Explore new estimates of migration flows between and within regions for five-year periods, 1990 to 2010.» Global International Migration Flows This eye-opening interactive graphic from three researchers at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital can be of use to educators teaching a wide range of subjects, from history to politics to economics…
by Anna Flagg Special to ProPublica Animal species are going extinct anywhere from 100 to 1,000 times the rates that would be expected under natural conditions. According to Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction and other recent studies, the increase results from a variety of human-caused effects including climate change, habitat destruction, and species displacement. Today’s…
