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Une seule personne peut avoir mille façons d’interpréter un objet, il suffit de se déplacer légèrement. On ne peut rien contrôler là-dessus. Je n’ai pas de problème avec les gens qui ne voient pas les choses comme moi. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/07/30/philippe-katerine-ce-qu-il-y-a-de-plus-beau-dans-la-foi-chretienne-c-est-le-pardon_6261473_3246.html

“Life is filled with mysteries, just filled,” he continues. “Human beings, we’re like detectives. We like to think about these things, or I sure do, and we want answers. The secret is: the answers are there, and they also lie within. It’s all there for us. If we want to get it, we can get…

We’re good at spotting the obvious conflicts of interest: of course mortgage providers always think it’s a great time to buy a house; of course the sharp-suited guys from SpeedyMoola.co.uk think their payday loans are good value. But it’s more difficult to see that everyone offering advice has a deeper vested interest: they need you to…

The supposed AI apocalypse is different from the mushroom-cloud horror of nuclear war, and unlike the ravages of the wildfires, droughts, and inundations that are becoming commonplace, because it arises from things that we have, since the beginning of civilization, always considered positive and central to what makes us human: reason, intelligence, logic, and the…

La découverte de production d’oxygène par un processus autre que la photosynthèse nous incite à repenser la manière dont est apparue la vie sur Terre », liée à l’apparition de l’oxygène, commente le Nicholas Owens, directeur de la SAMS. La vision « conventionnelle » étant que l’oxygène « a été fabriqué pour la première fois il y a environ…

The great discoveries of humanity have always taught us that we are not masters in our own house: Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the cosmos, Darwin spoiled our species’ idea of divine creation, Freud showed that we neither know nor control our desires. The humiliation by AI is subtler but just as…

While Darwin had provided the clue about where to see evolution, he thought any observations of change would be minute: big changes would take millions of years. We found change happened much quicker. The evolutionary process that Darwin outlined is character displacement (or divergence) caused by competition with another species. Over a period of nearly…

…using the immune system’s all-purpose killer: the T cell, which the body sends to neutralize pathogens of all sorts, including bacteria, viruses, and parasites, but not (usually) cancer. By extracting T cells from a patient’s blood, editing the cells’ DNA in a lab, and reintroducing them at the site of the tumor, they had gotten the…

The former will become the world’s most powerful radio astronomy facility while the latter, the world’s largest camera, will be able to image the entire visible sky every three or four nights, and is expected to help discover millions of new galaxies and stars. Both facilities are set to start observations in the next few…

The final pillar of how I try to build Yvette’s self-esteem is with what I call “sanctuaries”. All kids need them, and every day in the clinic I help build them with families. Sanctuaries are like rituals – activities we do or places that we go together that are only for joy. They have to…