These are not real people. Each face is a composite, assembled from the mugshots of between 10 to 24 male athletes from each of the 29 European countries represented here. This gallery of facial averages is like a collection of artist’s sketches of usual suspects pinned to the bulletin board of a police station. What…
Par Bob Duggan dans Big Think
Si la Fédération des femmes du Québec veut les contacter, voici le site Web: http://www.unchainedatlast.org/ Woman Breaks Through Chains of Forced Marriage, and Helps Others Do the Same, par Samuel G. Freedman du New York Times
Six in the Six: Half a dozen burning questions for Anthony Chelvanathan, maker of the world’s most controversial anti-homelessness ad, par Courtney Shea du Toronto Life La publicité :
Arab-Israeli news anchor Lucy Aharish isn’t afraid to take on both sides of her fraught identity. She has spoken out against the racism that Palestinians face in Israeli society as well as against Palestinian violence. Watch This Arab-Israeli News Anchor Slam Palestinian Leaders, par Gabe Friedman de Forward
Last week, Volkswagen of America C.E.O. Michael Horn told a House subcommittee investigating his company’s ongoing emissions scandal that it wasn’t a corporate decision to cheat emissions tests by installing “defeat” software in eleven million diesel cars. An Engineering Theory of the Volkswagen Scandal, par Paul Kedrosky du New Yorker Instead, Horn said, it was…
«Millions of years are compressed into 90 seconds, as the ape-like creature in the first frame eventually turns into the author himself in the last frame.» L’article de Wimp
«Once Earth was home to a host of human species, from Neanderthals to hobbits. But today only we survive.» Un article de la BBC
Un article de OpenCulture «These astronauts snapped photos inside and outside the spacecraft, in orbit and on the moon’s surface, and in 2004 NASA began digitizing the resulting cache of film.» Lien direct pour les photos
Depuis 15 ans, Hydro-Québec fait des sondages pour connaître nos opinions. Depuis 15 ans, elle s’assoit dessus comme une poule pondeuse paranoïaque. Un article du Journal de Montréal Juin 2015: Lors de sa nomination en juin dernier, le nouveau PDG d’Hydro-Québec, Éric Martel, avait annoncé «un changement de culture vers une plus grande transparence». En…