mars 2012
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Yaourt
Le jeune Montpelliérain ne comprend pas très bien pourquoi il y a souvent écrit «faire un GAY» ou encore «sortir le GAY», sur le tableau de la cuisine de sa mamie. Un dimanche, il lui pose la question. « »G-A-Y », ça veut dire « gâteau au yaourt », lui réponde sa grand-mère, centenaire dans quelques mois… Comme ça à chaque fois que j’en prépare un, je pense à toi!» » Mamie est-elle friendly?,… →
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Avortement après naissance
Alberto Giubilini, from Monash University, and Francesca Minerva, from the University of Melbourne, say a foetus and a newborn are equivalent in their lack of a sense of their own life and aspiration. They contend this justifies what they call »after-birth abortion » as long as it is painless, because the baby is not harmed by missing out on a life it cannot conceptualise. About a third of infants with Down… →
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L’effet McGurk
» Is Seeing Believing?, BBC Two. Intéressant, il faudrait prendre en compte l’habitude de regarder des séries doublées et son impact sur cet effet. Parfois, un mauvais doublage me fout la nausée, physiquement. →
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Les nouveaux standards journalistiques de NPR
It now commits itself to avoiding the worst excesses of he said, she said journalism. It says to itself that a report characterized by false balance is a false report. It introduces a new and potentially powerful concept of fairness: being fair to the truth. My verdict: Bravo, NPR. Within the world of pressthink there are occasional events things that happen and by happening bring to light shifts in thought.… →
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Dryococelus australis, le retour
They were Dryococelus australis. A search the next morning, and two years later, concluded these are the only ones on Ball’s Pyramid, the last ones. They live there, and, as best we know, nowhere else. How they got there is a mystery. Maybe they hitchhiked on birds, or traveled with fishermen, and how they survived for so long on just a single patch of plants, nobody knows either. The important… →