Scottish Referendum

One of the central promises of the 'No' campaign is that if Scots choose to reject independence, they will be rewarded with further devolution.

This seems a slightly odd promise to make. 'Vote against independence in order to get a bit more of it' isn't an obviously winning slogan and it's a claim that many Scots are deeply suspicious of.

The Sciences of Superheroes

              

Most people may dismiss their fantastic feats—and their formidable foes—as mere fantasy. But to Robert Weinberg, a Chicago, Illinois-based science fiction writer, superheroes are worthy of scientific study.

Cable Car

                        

 

Urban mobility will, without doubt, be one of the main challenges for our cities in the future. A gentle cable car revolution is underway, which is changing the way we see and use the city. Cocorico, world leader in cable cars and part of the POMA group, is French.

Prosthesis

           

La prothèse comme remplacement du membre amputé:

La problématique est de remplir la fonction "sans que cela ne se voie".

Mais, au delà de la fonction mécanique, une dimension personnelle est à prendre en compte. La prothèse peut alors renforcer l'estime de soi.

'Having an alternative limb is about claiming control and saying 'I'm an individual and this reflects who I am.'

Idée de Progrès

In November 2008, when Barack Obama made his famous election night victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park, he invoked the story of a black woman who had lived through a century of struggle that had culminated with the first African American president.

Ann Nixon Cooper was then 106. In all those years, Obama said, she had experienced "the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress".

Biofuel: Food Vs Fuel

Food versus fuel is the dilemma regarding the risk of diverting farmland or crops for biofuels production to the detriment of the food supply. The biofuel and food price debate involves wide-ranging views, and is a long-standing, controversial one in the literature.

Technology harms relationships

Today's relationships: you can touch each other but not each others' phones

Race to the Sky

 

   "The building of the skyscrapers has both functional and symbolic meaning. Skyscrapers have a certain level of significance at the local, national but also world level. The analysis of spatiotemporal diffusion of skyscrpers underlines strong links with the economical and idealogical background and more, in a certain sense the convergence of the world population way of life."                 

                                              Clarisse Didelon, CNRS, Université du Havre