Working with museums around the world, Google has used its Art Camera system to capture the finest details of artworks from their collection. Art Camera Images
La mafia russe en Amérique. A Vor Never Sleeps, the shadowy world of Russian organized crime in America.Un «longread» (en anglais) Les mafias Russes et Libanaises au Québec, DixQuatre. Documentaire : The Russian Mafia Documentary Le Kiosque a publié : Petite histoire de la Mafia et du crime organisé en Amérique
By David Robson A little-known condition causes people to adopt a new accent – and lose a part of their identity in the process, finds David Robson. Julie Matthias’s family have a game they sometimes like to play after she comes home, disappointed, from another doctor’s appointment. During dinner, they pick a foreign accent, and…
Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Each of these views has problems, but it is the multiculturalist one that seems the least in touch with social and political reality today. Not because the French don’t need to learn to accommodate more differences, but because it refuses to recognize the very disturbing developments in the…
Newspapers Death Watch Only 6% of people in their 20s and 16% of 40-year-olds regularly read newspapers, compared to 48% of people over 65. Only 29% of the U.S. population regularly read a newspaper in 2012, down from 56% in 1991. Three-quarters of the audience at the typical newspaper is 45 years of age or…