apropos of nothing, this is and will remain the defining video of the 21st century

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Certains livres ont une puissance destinale : la lecture à dix-sept ans de « Patience dans l’Azur » a changé le cours de mon existence. Plus tard, Hubert Reeves, maître pédagogue, est devenu un ami. Sa vie se prolonge désormais hors d’elle-même. Qu’il repose en paix.

Incipit vita nova

Hey! I just published a working paper telling the story of computers as seen from Shenzhen, China. Hope you’ll enjoy the read :) sciencespo.fr/ecole-urbaine/…

Tarek being arrested for calling for a #CeasefireNowInGaza. Contact @Pfragiskatos to demand he join the call for #CeasefireNOW ourcommons.ca/members/en/pet…

many such cases

This summer, Nilesh Christopher and I traveled to Sunguvarchatram, India, to find out how Foxconn prepared for the upcoming launch of iPhone 15. This supply chain shift brought Chinese and Indian workers together in an unlikely way 🧵 restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i… via Rest of World

Bouquiniste, docteur en linguistique, enseignant aux langues O, et musicien punk. Un CV comme j'aime. lefigaro.fr/musique/dispar…

Friday's onchainchecker.xyz listing: Shapes by @makio135 and Clément Renaud A collection of generative on-chain artworks with 4 different main shapes (slashes, arcs, grids and stencils). Each token can be changed/rerolled, with goal of creating a collector curated collection

"Today I wouldn't get an academic job. It's as simple as that. I don't think I would be regarded as productive enough." Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs explains how the focus on quantified indicators (number of publications, citations) harms scientific progress.

come work with me? I am hiring 2 postdocs to join my 4-year research project “Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation” (ALGOFOLK) at the University of Bergen - looking for socsci&hum+tech people with global outlook jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

In the 1940s, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was committed to his teaching role at the University of Chicago, despite being based at the Yerkes Observatory. Each week, he traveled 80 miles to teach a special course attended by only two students. The students were Tsung-Dao Lee and

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Fascinating work about the role of DNA « Martínez Arias refutes this perspective of the selfish gene and proposes a much more romantic alternative: the altruistic cell. “An organism is the work of cells. Genes merely provide materials for their work, » english-elpais-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/english.el…

Saluons la très ancienne tradition de vigilance du Figaro (ici en mai 1933) sur les bons et les mauvais scientifiques.