Dada : ces cinglés qui voulaient tout détruire
Ils étaient anarchistes, apatrides, hostiles à toute forme d’abrutissement social. C’est dire si les dadaïstes nous manquent aujourd’hui. Par Philippe Sollers (Le Nouvel Observateur)
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Twitter plafonne
Graphique Twitter’s user growth is tapering off alarmingly quickly. With an active user base of 241 million by the end of 2013, the apparent deceleration of Twitter’s growth suggests that the service will have a very hard time coming close to Facebook’s user base, let alone matching it. When Facebook’s growth rate first dropped to the…
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Les choses vont empirer pour les médas écrits
Graphique : Over the past decade, as consumers and advertisers turned to digital media, U.S. print publishers have suffered a precipitous decline of advertising revenues. Newspaper ad spending in the United States peaked in 2000 and has since fallen more than 70 percent to a 50-year low if inflation is considered. Magazines have suffered a similar…
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Une tâche presque impossible: trouver un avion dans l'océan.
Un article de Jordan Golson dans Wired (…) Four days after Malayasia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared enroute to Bejing, search and rescue vessels scouring the region have found no trace of the airliner or the 239 people aboard. Although authorities have yet to speculate on what happened aboard the Boeing 777-200, what ever it was that…
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Réduire la dette du Québec, une promesse réaliste? Radio-Canada n'a oublié qu'un détail: quel est le montant de la dette?
Ici.Radio-Canada.ca le montant de la dette brute, lui, continuerait d’augmenter d’environ 14,5 milliards de dollars jusqu’en 2019. la dette du Québec a grimpé en moyenne de 6 milliards de dollars par année, et non de de 10 milliards de dollars. « Nous prévoyons verser une somme cumulative de 10 milliards de dollars à l’encontre de la dette dans le prochain…
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Desjardins notre fleuron financier: 16 ans de transactions aux Bahamas
Hugo Joncas, Les Affaires Une série de documents judiciaires et confidentiels et des témoignages qu’a recueillis Les Affaires permettent d’en savoir plus sur le passé trouble de Desjardins, de la Banque Nationale et de la Banque Laurentienne aux Bahamas.
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Le prototype de l'apitoiement politically correct ( site -xojane)
It Happened To Me: There Are No Black People In My Yoga Classes And I’m Suddenly Feeling Uncomfortable With It (Jen Caron) I was completely unable to focus on my practice, instead feeling hyper-aware of my skinny white girl body. (…) I realized with horror that despite the all-inclusivity preached by the studio, despite the…
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The Data Brokers: Selling your personal information (Reportage de 60 Minutes: 15.09)
Steve Kroft investigates the multibillion dollar industry that collects, analyzes and sells the personal information of millions of Americans with virtually no oversight.
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36 ways the Web has changed us
Caitlin Dewey Washington Post . Exemples: 12. We don’t need music stores. Sam Goody recently made our list of stores we loved in childhood, but aren’t around today. Unsurprisingly, other chains that retail the analog predecessors of digital things — Blockbuster, Borders, Moviefone — have also shut down. 13. We sleep less. 14. We work…
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You're Drinking the Wrong Kind of Milk. And we're not talking about soy or almond, either.
By Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones Okea/Thinkstock When my in-laws moved from India to the United States some 35 years ago, they couldn’t believe the low cost and abundance of our milk—until they developed digestive problems. They’ll now tell you the same thing I’ve heard a lot of immigrants say: American milk will make you sick….