22 Ans d'amphi au Collège de France (1983-2005) Reprise des cours donnés par Yves Coppens au Collège de France. Ce recueil permet de mesurer les avancées de la paléoanthropologie sur les 22 dernières années...
A new article from Financial Times discusses the emerging fears over Russian oil production. Russia is the world’s biggest oil producer and the second largest oil exporter.
Leonid Fedun, the 52-year-old vice-president of Lukoil, Russia’s largest independent oil company, told the Financial Times (...)
Oil production is peaking and the world must rethink its energy-supply strategy, says Kjell Aleklett, professor in Physics, Global Energy Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden and president of ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas. Interview by Tom Nicholls in Petroleum (...)
Recently, Gawker Media, the blog empire run by Nick Denton, made two moves that were curious. One was spinning off three sites that weren’t making the cut: Gridskipper (travel), Idolator (music), and Wonkette (politics). The other was slashing the pay-per-page-view rate for Gawker Media writers (...)
In the age of the Internet, with so many cameraphones and videophones, no one can feel like they are having a private conversation anymore. There is always a blogger or someone nearby seemingly recording every moment, whether it’s a celebrity trying to take a vacation or Sen. Barack Obama having (...)
The New York Times recently published a story , “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop,” that created a lot of buzz. The story told about bloggers who were literally working themselves to death. As if it were a quickly advancing trend, the Times’ Matt Richtel declared, “a (...)
Blogging to death
Blogosphere on fire over NY Times story Web of Pulitzers
Prize-winners using web more than ever Behavioral ad-versity
59 percent don’t like ads based on online activity Flickr video
Photo site adds video; some don’t like it PostaCrime
Anyone can post videos of possible (...)
The world has a little bit over 500 giants oil fields, i.e. fields that contain more than 500 million barrels of oil in ultimately recoverable reserves according to the doctoral thesis made by Fredrik Robelius (available from here).
Xiaojie Xu, chief professor at the Institute for Geopolitics (...)
Silicon Valley journalist/blogger Tom Foremski had had enough. Two years ago, he wrote a poison pen letter to the PR industry in a blog post titled Die! Press release! Die! Die! Die!, in which he exhorted publicists to break down press releases into sections, tag the information and provide (...)
La sépulture de l'enfant de Lagar Velho a été mise au jour dans la vallée du Lapedo au Portugal, en Décembre 1998, par Cidalia Duarte (Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia). Elle a livré le squelette assez complet d'un enfant de quatre à cinq ans, daté de - 24 500 ans (...)
PASCALToutes choses étant causées et causantes, aidées et aidantes, médiatement et immédiatement, et toutes s’entretenant par un lien naturel et insensible qui lie les plus éloignées et les plus différentes, je tiens impossible de connaître les parties sans connaître le tout, non plus que de connaître le tout sans connaître particulièrement les parties.
Gandhi"Vivre simplement pour que d’autres, simplement, puissent vivre. "
Albert Einstein« Aucun problème ne peut être résolu sans changer l’état d’esprit qui l’a engendré »
Marion King Hubbert"Notre ignorance n’est pas aussi vaste que notre incapacité à utiliser ce que nous savons."