Toussaint Cartier, l’ermite de l’île Saint-Barnabé. Seul pendant quarante ans.
Le Mouton Noir
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The CIA’s Most Highly-Trained Spies Weren’t Even Human
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
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Là où tous les artisans sont des… artisanes
The Wall Street Journal Laboratorio di restauro del fortepiano—où les vieux pianos sont conservés, restaurés et mis en vente. C’est une entreprise déjà peu commune, mais un autre élément la rend particulière : Au Laboratorio, tous les artisans sont des femmes. Some materials are simply unobtainable. “In old English pianos, the mechanism sometimes used whalebones,”…
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Des scientifiques étudient le cas d’un enfant à la mémoire extraordinaire (1.33)
A 60 Minutes story on people with super memories caused dozens more, including 10-year-old Jake Hausler, to come forward, giving science more subjects to study.
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Magiciens de la mémoire
60 minutes Imagine being able to remember virtually every day of your life. As Lesley Stahl reports, it’s a kind of memory that is brand new to science.