Mairie du 5è arrondissement de Paris, 21 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris Dans le cadre des « Mardis de la Science » de la mairie du 5è, l'Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique (AFIS) vous invite Mardi 3 mars 2020, 19h Homéopathie : 200 ans d'histoire, quel avenir ? Par Jean-Paul Krivine , rédacteur en chef de la revue de l'Afis Science et pseudo-sciences. L'homéopathie est objet de controverses. Elle occupe régulièrement la une des journaux. Sa popularité est-elle justifiée ? (...) Agenda de l'Afis

Mairie du 5è arrondissement de Paris, 21 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris Dans le cadre des « Mardis de la Science » de la mairie du 5è, l'Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique (AFIS) vous invite Mardi 4 février 2020, 19h Infos et Intox sur l'intelligence Par Franck Ramus , directeur de recherche au CNRS, professeur à l'ENS en sciences cognitives, membre du comité de parrainage de l'Afis. L'intelligence est un sujet sur lequel chacun a un avis et le donne sans retenue, faisant (...) Agenda de l'Afis

Mairie du 5è arrondissement de Paris, 21 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris Dans le cadre des « Mardis de la Science » de la mairie du 5è, l'Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique (AFIS) vous invite Mardi 26 novembre 2019, 19h Le hasard dans l'évolution de la vie Par Guillaume Lecointre , Professeur du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. On dit souvent que l'évolution des êtres vivants se fait "par hasard". Nous avons pourtant l'impression que le monde vivant est régulier, "bien (...) Agenda de l'Afis

Mairie du 5è arrondissement de Paris, 21 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris Dans le cadre des « Mardis de la Science » de la mairie du 5è, l'Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique (AFIS) vous invite Mardi 8 octobre 2019, 19h Santé des Français : Va-t-on mieux ou moins bien ? Par Catherine Hill , Epidémiologiste à l'Institut Gustave Roussy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUJWFCUvQ08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpYbJTsDW18 [( Nous avons tous en tête les progrès de la médecine (...) Agenda de l'Afis

Le 18e congrès européen des associations « sceptiques » (organisé par l'ECSO dont l'Afis est adhérente) se tiendra du jeudi 29 août au dimanche 1er septembre 2019 à Gand en Belgique. Tables rondes, conférences et rencontres sont à l'ordre du jour. Des membres de l'Afis interviendront lors des sessions « European skeptics – a 30 years retrospective » et « Green skepticism ». Détails et inscription : (...) Agenda de l'Afis

Doesn’t the Z-axis on 3D-printers seem a little – underused? I mean, all it does is creep up a fraction of a millimeter as the printer works through each slice. It would be nice if it could work with the other two axes and actually do something interesting. Which is exactly what’s happening in the nonplanar 3D-printing methods being explored at the University of Hamburg. Printing proceeds normally up until the end, when some modifications to Slic3r allow smooth toolpaths to fill in the stairsteps and produce a smooth(er) finish. It obviously won’t work for all prints or printers, but it’s nice to see the Z-axis finally pulling its weight.
If you want to know how something breaks, best to talk to...

Locally sourced Basque food prepared by Michelin-star chefs may have been on the menu, but that didn’t satisfy Donald Trump during a G7 summit dinner in Biarritz, France on Saturday night (Aug. 24). According to reporting by the Guardian, heated debates began when the US president demanded the group readmit Russia. Russia was removed by the previously named G8 after it annexed Crimea in 2014.
During the seaside meal, French president Emmanuel Macron and European Council president Donald Tusk opposed Trump’s demands. A diplomat present told the publication that the evening was tense: “Most of the other leaders insisted on this being a family, a club, a community of liberal democracies and for that reason...

Pierre-Marie Adam, le Grand Maître de la Grande Loge de France clôturera ce mardi 27 août le cycle des conférences estivales de la GLDF, dont le thème était cette année « Vivre ensemble » Mardi 27 août à 20h, Hôtel de la Grande Loge de France, 8...
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La bibliothèque royale de Belgique, à Bruxelles, possède un volumineux dossier appartenant au général de Fernig. Une copie m’en fut communiquée par mon regretté frère et ami, Christian Balister, trop tôt décédé. Ce dossier comporte des pièces diverses, énumérées en annexe, qui ne sont pas...
Cet article Le général de Fernig, officier et franc-maçon. est apparu en premier sur Hiram.be.

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For two years fans have been wondering what a Star Wars hotel would be like. Well, it turns out, it’s not a hotel at all. Read more...

The Glia project aims to create a suite of free and open-source medical equipment that can be assembled cheaply and easily when and where it’s needed. Even essential tools like stethoscopes and tourniquets can be difficult to acquire in certain parts of the world, especially during times of war or civil unrest. But armed with a 3D printer and the team’s open-source designs, an ad-hoc factory can start producing these lifesaving tools anywhere on the planet.
Glia member [Tarek Loubani] has recently written a blog post discussing the team’s latest release: an otoscope that can be built for as little as $5. Even if you don’t recognize the name, you’ve almost certainly seen one of them in use. The...

There are a few new faces to see in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and we still know very little about them. Yesterday, at the D23 Expo, we got our first information about Zorri, the new character played by Keri Russel. Read more...

For as long as piracy and counterfeiting have existed, there have been claims that groups engaged in the practices have links to other, more serious crimes. Over the past couple of decades the claims have persisted but even the most serious legal cases (ones for which people have been jailed for many years) have failed to turn up evidence that people running pirate sites, services, and similar platforms are connected to even more serious crimes. This week, however, following news from FACT that it had targeted numerous IPTV sellers and providers in the UK, Lesley Donovan – the National Coordinator for the multi-agency Government Agency Intelligence Network (GAIN) – repeated similar claims. Referencing even...

Comme les choses se présentent en ce moment, je crois que nous allons encore avoir l’occasion de bien rigoler !
P.S. Vous aurez noté que le commentateur appelle les « 3 principes du capitalisme » qu’il rappelle : « lois de la nature ». Il y a donc de son côté aussi encore du progrès à faire.

Members of the TNF team recount big events from Europe from the past week, and point attention to news that may have passed notice. What did we miss? Comment on our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/thenewfederalist.eu ! Italy looks to form new government
This week marked the official collapse of the populist government in Italy after Matteo Salvini effectively sabotaged the coalition and pulled out of the alliance with M5S. While Salvini may have been hoping to provoke new elections and capitalise on his party's lead in the polls, M5S and opposition PD are in no mood for new elections. With the encouragement of President Mattarella, the two parties are now in talks to try and form a new government. This...

Ahead of SpaceX’s experimental rocket launch Monday (Aug. 26), police warned nearby residents to leave their homes around launch time because the windows could shatter, according to the Brownsville Herald.
Those residents live in tiny Boca Chica Village, Texas, which sits less than 2 miles (3 km) from a SpaceX-operated launch site near the US-Mexico border along the Gulf Coast. SpaceX’s test of the so-called “Starhopper”—a prototype of a reusable shuttle meant for human transit—may well create an “overpressure event” capable of breaking glass in buildings nearby. The police-delivered warnings advise residents to, at a minimum, exit their homes when they hear police sirens around the 4pm launch...

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Vous n’avez pas suivi l’actualité ? A vrai dire, on a du mal à vous en vouloir. Mais laissez-nous vous aider à rattraper le fil en vous résumant les six informations principales qui ont rythmé ce samedi 24 et dimanche 25 août.

There’s no doubting the allure of a nicely crafted LED cube; likewise, there’s no doubting that they can be a tremendous pain to build. After all, the amount of work scales as the cube of the number of LEDs you want each side to have, and let’s face it – with LED cubes, the bigger, the better. What to do about all that tedious lead forming?
[TylerTimoJ]’s solution is a custom-designed lead-forming tool, and we have to say we’re mighty impressed by it. His LED cubes use discrete RGB LEDs, the kind with four leads, each suspended in space by soldering them to wires. For the neat appearance needed to make such a circuit sculpture work, the leads must be trimmed and bent at just the right angles, a...

My Outer Wilds journey had me awash in emotions from fear to joy to sadness. There was one discovery, however, that made me unexpectedly queasy. It also left me with a lingering sense of overwhelming dread that morphed into much more.Read more...

Photo: Warner Bros. I was excited to watch Cold War, the new film from Ida director Paweł Pawlikowski, now that it’s streaming on Amazon. Like Ida, Cold War is shot in gorgeous black and white and has a zoomed-in focus on the oppression felt by an individual during war.
Cold War jumps forward again and again so we can see the isolating effects over time, which is a really neat way to structure a movie that’s trying to show the impact of a seemingly endless standoff. It effectively turns into a series of connected shorts, showing various blips in a couple’s life.
What I found even more confusing was the relationship that it depicted. It’s torn apart and trampled again and again by war, then brought...

Radio talk-show host and former congressman Joe Walsh announced today that he’s running as a Republican candidate for US president in 2020. After all but declaring a bid in a campaign-testing New York Times op-ed—entitled “Trump Needs a Primary Challenge”—the one-term House representative from Illinois said on ABC’s This Week: “I’m going to run for president.”
Walsh coupled the announcement with a tweet and the launch of a campaign website, saying, “We can’t take four more years of Donald Trump.” Friends, I'm in. We can't take four more years of Donald Trump. And that's why I'm running for President. It won't be easy, but bravery is never easy. But together, we can...

Depuis plusieurs semaines la presse occidentale nous tient au courant chaque fois que la police de Hong Kong recourt, contre les manifestants, à (gaspation !) des… gaz lacrymogènes ! Vous pouvez d’ailleurs voir en ce moment-même en une du Monde en ligne : A Hongkong, la police fait usage de canons à eau contre des manifestants Pour la première fois depuis le début de la mobilisation pro-démocratie en juin, les policiers ont eu recours à cette technique de dispersion lors d’échauffourées. Des … (re-gaspation !) canons à eau, contre les amis de la démocratie ! Décidément la barbarie extrême-orientale ne connaît aucune limite ! C’est en lisant ce genre de nouvelles que nous, en Occident,...

Mohamamad Javad Zarif est arrivé dans la cité balnéaire en plein débat des pays du G7 sur la question du nucléaire iranien. La présidence française a proposé un plan pour éviter une escalade dans la région. 

In a stiflingly hot lecture tent at CCCamp on Friday, Adam Harvey took to the stage to discuss the huge data sets being used by groups around the world to train facial recognition software. These faces come from a variety of sources and soon Adam and his research collaborator Jules LaPlace will release a tool that makes these dataset searchable allowing you to figure out if your face is among the horde.
Facial recognition is the new hotness, recently bubbling up to the consciousness of the general public. In fact, when boarding a flight from Detroit to Amsterdam earlier this week I was required to board the plane not by showing a passport or boarding pass, but by pausing in front of a facial recognition camera...

Hong Kong has been transformed for months by the enormous, constantly evolving pro-democracy protests.
One of the largest was said to have included nearly 2 million people, an astounding figure in a region of 8 million. Demonstrators have swarmed Hong Kong’s streets, public transit, and shopping malls, as well as its international airport.
The protests have also been answered with violence from police and organized-crime thugs.
This weekend marks the 12th consecutive one in which protests have sprung up, starting with a massive human chain that snaked through Hong Kong on Friday evening and continuing with attacks on “smart” lampposts that some demonstrators see as surveillance tools.
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Au second jour du G7 à Biarritz, le président américain a exprimé des regrets sur l’escalade dans la guerre commerciale avec la Chine et même semblé abandonner ses dernières menaces. Mais la Maison blanche a aussitôt indiqué que ses propos ont été “très mal interprétés”.

Instagram has turned into an endless shopping experience, almost like a mall. It lets you wander, browse, even have some fun—but everything is designed to make you spend more money without any obstacles.
Some of this transformation has been obvious, a result of concretes steps by the app, and some has been a gradual, somewhat surreptitious, process.
The Information reported Aug. 22 that when Facebook started cracking the whip on Instagram last year to push the app to bring in even more profit, it ordered the photo-sharing app to double the number of ads on the platform.
Scrolling through my Instagram feed today, I found that for every three regular posts, one was an ad. On Stories, it varied, with ads...

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Nous avons lu cette phrase samedi dans un papier du Monde.fr sur le tour cycliste du Limousin : « Présent tous les jours sur le podium, Benoît Cosnefroy a signé une victoire d’étape vendredi à Beynat et trois troisième place les autres jours. »
Fallait-il plutôt écrire :
« Présent tous les jours sur le podium, Benoît Cosnefroy a signé une victoire d’étape vendredi à Beynat et trois troisièmes places les autres jours. » ?
Trois et troisième(s) à la file, cela fait bizarre : on pense à neuf (trois fois trois) troisièmes places.
Nous préférons la première version, « agrammaticale », sans doute, que nous lisons ainsi :  « (…) et trois fois la troisième place les autres...

One of the core lessons any physics student will come to realize is that the more you know about physics, the less intuitive it seems. Take the nature of light, for example. Is it a wave? A particle? Both? Neither? Whatever the answer to the question, scientists are at least able to exploit some of its characteristics, like its ability to bend and bounce off of obstacles. This camera, for example, is able to image a room without a direct light-of-sight as a result.
The process works by pointing a camera through an opening in the room and then strobing a laser at the exposed wall. The laser light bounces off of the wall, into the room, off of the objects on the hidden side of the room, and then back to the...

Aurélien Barrau, Dominique Bourg, Yves Cochet, Pablo Servigne, Gaël Giraud, Cyril Dion... Quel collapsologue correspond à votre espérance ?

This week the US Customs and Border Protection Bureau hosted a meeting discussing various copyright enforcement efforts. During the meeting, various stakeholders were invited to submit input for the Presidential Memorandum on Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods, set to be released later this year. A similar request was previously made by the US Department of Commerce. While we already covered some of these responses, the views of the Copyright Alliance, which were sent in response to the latest meeting, haven’t been mentioned yet. In a detailed submission the Copyright Alliance, which says it represents 1.8 million creators and 13,000 pro-copyright organizations in the United States,...

Al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en 1945, Europa estaba en ruinas. Una de las incontables víctimas de la guerra y sus años precedentes fue la ciencia europea. Antes de la guerra, Europa era el hogar de la mayoría de las más brillantes mentes científicas, pero sus efectos y el régimen de Hitler en Alemania pusieron fin a ello. Muchos científicos de origen hebreo (como Albert Einstein, entre muchos otros) tuvieron que huir a los Estados Unidos para evitar la persecución política, de la misma maneras que muchos otros tuvieron que exiliarse por oponerse a la ocupación Nazi de otros países. Cuando el polvo se aclaró, muchos más científicos habían emigrado a América, ya que las condiciones...

L’appel du mois d’août a rapporté jusqu’ici 279 €. L’objectif mensuel est de 350 €, pour la rémunération du webmaster et la location des 2 serveurs. Ce qui dépasse 350 € m’aide à payer les retranscriptions – que je prends sinon à ma charge. Merci pour votre générosité !

Le photographe et artiste plasticien basé à Hambourg, Ali Sahba, est de retour avec son dernier travail, cette fois entièrement en CGI. Intitulée Fell, Again, Sahba explore les limites de l’imagerie générée par ordinateur et s’efforce de créer une série d’images ressemblant à des photographies. Le projet aborde le problème de l’anxiété, Sahba utilisant des chaises empilées et des corps contorsionnés comme symboles de la peur que nous ressentons lorsque nous entrons dans un lieu inconnu et il le fait de manière totalement abstraite. Visitez son site Web et Instagram pour en savoir plus.

Géplu : Jean-Philippe, tu as été élu fin août 2018 Grand Maître du Grand Orient de France. Tu termines ta première année de grande maîtrise, et tu as la possibilité d’être de nouveau candidat cette année pour un second mandat. Avant d’évoquer cette hypothétique seconde...
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C’est Jean-Michel qui nous a envoyé cette photo, prise dans le cimetière de la Cathédrale de Saint-Andrews, comté de Fife en Écosse. John Lumsdaine, visiblement franc-maçon, et son épouse Barbara ont fait ériger cette stèle sans doute en 1868 en souvenir de leurs enfants, tous...
Cet article La photo maçonnique du dimanche 25 août 2019 est apparu en premier sur Hiram.be.

Le mouvement catholique intégriste d’extrême droite CIVITAS, proche notamment de Jean-Marie Le Pen et d’Alain Soral, viscéralement anti maçonnique, prépare les prochaines élections municipales françaises, qui se dérouleront les 15 et 22 mars prochains. Dans un tract, CIVITAS-municipales 2020 appelant à rejoindre le mouvement et...
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Mark O’Connell : Aventures chez les transhumanistes, L’Échappée
Je dis qu’on m’a demandé de faire la préface de la traduction en français. Ce qui était vrai. La traduction a finalement été publiée chez un autre éditeur. Mon projet de préface a été intégré dans Défense et illustration du genre humain (Fayard 2018).

Image: Zens It’s been nearly five months since one of the all-time great Friday news dumps: On March 29th, Apple abruptly canceled the AirPower wireless charging mat that would supposedly be able to charge your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods simultaneously no matter where you placed them. But wireless charging firm Zens is betting it can do some of what Apple couldn’t by introducing the Zens Liberty.
Zens claims the Liberty uses a set of 16 overlapping wireless charging coils to let you charge your Qi-compatible devices from any spot on the mat — just like AirPower was supposed to, though AirPower was rumored to have 21 to 24 coils. The Zens Liberty can charge two devices at once, unlike AirPower’s...

Image: Marvel The Black Widow movie is finally happening, and Marvel Studios co-president Kevin Feige brought an exclusive trailer to Disney’s D23 Expo, to prove it. Like the new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer, the Black Widow trailer hasn’t been posted online yet, but here’s what it looks like.
Feige debuted the trailer during Marvel’s segment of Disney’s big Studios panel. It opens with a montage of footage collected from various Marvel movies, including The Avengers, Avengers: Endgame, and Captain America: Civil War. It sets up Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow as a two-timing spy, relying on conversations between Tony Stark and Romanoff in Civil War. After the Avengers footage, the trailer...

In the Studios panel at D23, Marvel Studios co-president Kevin Feige confirmed that Black Panther 2 has been scheduled for release on May 6, 2022. Director Ryan Coogler said the team is “taking their time with it” in order to get it right. That places Black Panther 2 directly between some of Marvel’s new franchises, like The Eternals, and other series installments, like Thor: Love and Thunder and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. If San Diego Comic-Con was Marvel Studios’ way of ushering in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney’s biennial trade show D23 was a reminder that sequels to important movies are still coming. Unlike Star Wars, which is taking a theatrical break after...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will conclude the current Star Wars trilogy, and a new trailer showcased at Disney’s D23 Expo teases what that end looks like. Although Disney hasn’t made the trailer public, we can give you a brief description of what happened since we were there. The trailer opens with footage from all nine Star Wars films. A voiceover declares that there have been “a thousand generations, but this is your fight.” Rey, Poe, and Finn are preparing for the biggest fight of their life. Battleships tear through the skies, as Rey and Kylo Ren meet in the middle of a war-torn planet, ready to fight. The best bit of all? Rey is wielding a red, double-sided lightsaber. Leaks will probably...

In recent years website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in several dozen countries are now required to prevent subscribers from accessing a variety of ‘pirate’ sites. While new blocks are added every month, research on their effectiveness has been rather scarce. Most ‘studies’ promoted by copyright holders conclude that blocking a site does indeed reduce traffic to the affected domains. While this is hardly surprising, less is known about where ‘blocked’ subscribers go instead. Do they simply give up and stop pirating? Are they finding ways to circumvent blockades? Do they decide to sign up for a paid streaming service such as...

Le directeur de l’Institut de politique spatiale, Ivan Moïsseev, estime que Fedor est un gadget inutile et dangereux. Une deuxième tentative d’arrimage à l’ISS aura lieu lundi au petites heures du matin.

Au premier jour du sommet du G7 à Biarritz, les médias américains craignent surtout les coups d’éclat dont est coutumier Donald Trump. Des vins français à la Chine en passant par le climat : les sujets de discorde ne manquent pas. 

À anniversaire exceptionnel, ouvrage exceptionnel ! Le 18 novembre 1928, le public voyait apparaître dans le dessin animé Steamboat Willie un nouveau personnage, une souris habillée d'une culotte qui allait révolutionner la culture populaire pour les décennies à venir : Mickey Mouse ! 90 ans plus tard, la souris superstar a décidé de fêter son anniversaire en grande pompe en réunissant des invités d'exception ! Pour célébrer l'événement, les éditions Glénat ont en effet proposé à 50 auteurs (...) -
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At the 2017 Gothenburg Summit, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus program (now Erasmus+), EU leaders laid out a vision for a European Education Area. Through measures like financial support for member states' reforms, the European student card or the expansion and strengthening of Erasmus+, the EU will develop a common policy in the area of education which will harness “the full potential of education and culture”. The goals of this project are twofold. On the one hand, it seeks to increase the competitiveness of European higher education, increasing employment opportunities and boosting the economy. On the other hand, by driving social cohesion, it aims to deepen European integration...

During March, US-based author John Van Stry filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Travis McCrea, the operator of controversial eBook download platform eBook.bike. McCrea initially opted not to become involved in the US lawsuit and in June, Van Stry’s lawyers filed for a default judgment in a Texas court. In common with most copyright cases, this one isn’t straightforward and seems to have been complicated by McCrea’s early non-participation. However, the former Pirate Party of Canada leader eventually had a change of heart. He recently asked the Court to consider accepting late motions to vacate the default, dismiss the case, and/or change the venue. Following a recent telephone conference,...

JP et Mike Andrews sont des frères qui, fatigués de la routine quotidienne de la vie britannique, se sont lancés dans une aventure d’un an dans la brousse australienne. Et avec l’aide d’un drone, ils nous emmènent dans leur aventure en partageant les incroyables vues aériennes qu’ils ont vues. Bien plus que des photographies traditionnelles, leurs photographies aériennes sont des œuvres à part entière. Les visuels abstraits sont produits de manière créative via des motifs et des ombres, rendues encore plus impressionnants par le fait qu’aucune de leurs images n’est manipulée numériquement. Parlant de leur approche originale de la photographie aérienne, les frères déclarent que...

Toujours pas convertis à la réalité virtuelle ? On vous a repéré quatre oeuvres culturelles pour être incollable sur le sujet.

Ever wonder who leads the world’s wealth? Or which celebrities bring home the most bacon? Are they really as different from us as we think? While there are some folks who always grace Forbes’ annual collection of the highest-earning entertainers in the business — looking at you Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen — there are […]
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After losing 30 pounds, Jenny was able to conceive and gave birth to her daughter. The problem was, she wasn’t able to lose the baby weight.
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Today marks thirty years since the Baltic Way – a peaceful demonstration where Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians stood hand in hand all the way from Tallinn to Vilnius to show their passion for freedom. On 23 August 1989, about 2 million people opened up their hearts and turned their backs to the Soviet Union to protest against the suppression of their cultures, languages and national identities. Even though 30 years have passed, the memory of the events still stays fresh in these nations‘ minds. Call for independence from the Soviet Union
The demonstration originated in Black Ribbon Day protests held in Western cities in the 1980s. The date of the Baltic Way was the 50th anniversary of the...

The Internet Archive (archive.org) is a nonprofit library of millions of free books, movies, software and music. Founded back in 1996, it’s considered one of the most important sites on the entire Internet, not least for its Wayback Machine which provides an unrivaled history of pages published on the web. Like all platforms of its type, the Internet Archive contains copyrighted material, some of it present without rightsholders’ permission. While the platform previously stated it has some reservations concerning the DMCA, it acknowledges that ‘safe harbor’ provisions are vital to the existence of libraries such as the one it offers via Archive.org. Internet Archive is required to respond to properly...

Le verdict est tombé : neuf ans et demi de prison pour Alaa S., jugé coupable de coups ayant entrainé mort d’homme dans la nuit du 26 août 2018 à Chemnitz. Le drame avait déclenché de violentes manifestations d’extrême droite dans cette ville de l’est du pays.
 

23 August is a historic date for the Baltic states and for Eastern Europe as a whole. 80 years ago today, the Soviet and German foreign ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop made a secret pact to divide Europe between the two dictatorships. Exactly five decades later, two million people in the three Baltic states occupied by the Soviet Union would form a human chain to demand freedom. The secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact designated Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence just days before World War II started with Adolf Hitler's attack on Poland. As a result of the pact, the USSR annexed the Baltic states, attempted to invade Finland, and took over parts of Romania. The protocol...